HF: Suzanne Clouthier has sent the following script and images highlighting Lily Nègre, who Suzanne’s grandfather described as having a reputation as a great seamstress in the Orient, possibly Hong Kong. Both Suzanne and I would welcome further information about Lily, and I would also like to learn more about others involved in the fashion industry in Hong Kong between […]
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HF: Tony Banham started and runs the Hong Kong War Diary website, linked below. This is a project that documents the 1941 defence of Hong Kong, the defenders, their families, and the fates of all until liberation. Quite a while ago Tony contacted me including the following information and request: For around 15 years I’ve been trying to find the […]
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Our recently posted article Dairy Farm Company employees – a compilation, features Peter C. Jackson. His son Nick Jackson contributed information about his father and several images. This includes the following, “Have the dams in the hills survived? At some stage my father – who had started in about 1933 – had arranged for simple small concrete dams to be […]
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Phil Kenny has sent the image below. He says this is from a 1967 film (Casse-tête chinois pour le judoka) – “it shows the gantry/trestle (is that what they are called?) of the Pacific Island Ship building yard in the background.” Phil runs the excellent Hong Kong film website, Hong Kong (& Macau) Film Stuff linked below. Phil adds that […]
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Paul Bloomfield has sent this image of a Nam Wah preserved ginger jar. HF: He asked if we had any further information about the company. The answer is a little shown in our already posted article, Nam Wah preserved ginger manufacturer – Sham Shui Po, linked below. I have included some of the information and an early advert for the […]
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George Sturrock recently emailed me, “I am researching the history of eye baths and would be most grateful if you can confirm that the attached eye bath, [see first two images shown below], was marketed by Hutchison Whampoa Ltd, presumably post 1963 when A.S.Watson & Co Ltd was assimilated. The embossed kanji inscription above reads TRADEMARK, I am told, and HUTCHISON WHAMPOA LTD within […]
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In a recent email IDJ brought up the subject of stink boats following the recent posting on the website of an article about night soil collection in Hong Kong, linked below. If you can add further information about these boats or an image of one please send it into the site. IDJ: From recollections of transportation to my workplaces via […]
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HF: Our recently posted biography, Dadabhoy Rustomjee Banaji and Maneckjee Rustomjee Banaji, the brothers behind the Canton and Hong Kong trading firm, D. & M. Rustomjee, mentions that the brothers “operated a hugely profitable firm called D. & M. Rustomjee, based first in Canton and later in Hong Kong.” I am looking for information about, and images of, this company […]
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H.F. Our biography of Sir Robert Hormus Kotewall, founder of R.H.Kotewall & Co. and connected to many other Hong Kong companies, linked below includes: Kotewall left government service in 1916 to set up a firm trading in imported textiles and paper. This firm, R.H. Kotewall & Co., flourished, and he became the director of several other companies, including Wo Shing, […]
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Our article, Tse Tsan Tai, 謝纘泰, co-founder of the South China Morning Post and…, mentions that in 1890 Tse joined the Public Works Department [in Hong Kong] leaving in 1900 to become compradore of Boyd Kaye & a Co., an import-export firm. I have been unable to access any information about Boyd, Kaye & Company in Hong Kong and wonder […]
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