Tag Archives: Hong Kong

About scratching, they were never wrong, the old masters

Posted on July 3, 2020 by Robert Bickers

OK, that’s not what W.H. Auden actually wrote, but while I have been enjoying the selections of photographs made by Tom Larkin for our new Instagram feed — @hpcbristol, go on, follow us — Auden’s poem ‘Musée des Beaux Arts’ … Continue reading →

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The joys of everyday life on the China Coast

Posted on June 4, 2020 by Helena F. S. Lopes

The F. Hagger collection encompasses some 260 photographs of China in the early 1930s, as well as many of Japan, Singapore, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), North Borneo, Manila, India, Egypt, and others which are not on the Historical Photographs of China … Continue reading →

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Work and movement in the Hong Kong photographs of Dr Eleanor Whitworth Mitchell

Posted on November 1, 2019 by Helena F. S. Lopes

Dr Helena F. S. Lopes is Senior Research Associate in the History of Hong Kong and a Lecturer in Modern Chinese History at the University of Bristol. She holds a DPhil in History from the University of Oxford. Dr Eleanor … Continue reading →

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David Bellis on Warren Swire’s third visit to Hong Kong, 1919-1920

Posted on October 26, 2016 by Guest

David Bellis runs Gwulo.com, an online community for anyone interested in Hong Kong’s history. It hosts over 20,000 pages of information, including over 10,000 photographs. This is his third exploration of Warren Swire’s photographs of his periodic visits to Hong … Continue reading →

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David Bellis on Warren Swire’s second visit to Hong Kong, 1911-12

Posted on May 23, 2016 by Jamie Carstairs

In this, the second of a series of blogs, David Bellis explores the photographs taken by G. Warren Swire on his trip to Hong Kong in 1911-12. Because John Swire & Sons was headquartered in London, each year one of the … Continue reading →

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David Bellis on Warren Swire's Hong Kong, 1906-1940

Posted on March 17, 2016 by Guest

David Bellis runs Gwulo.com, an online community for anyone interested in Hong Kong’s history. It hosts over 20,000 pages of information, including over 10,000 photographs. David recently visited Bristol to discuss his work, and met the  team. In this, the … Continue reading →

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Burning bright in the forests of the night

Posted on January 14, 2014 by Jamie Carstairs

This tiger sculpture was in the Aw Boon Haw Gardens amusement park (Tiger Balm Gardens) in Happy Valley, Hong Kong. The Tiger Balm Gardens were a sort of Chinese Disneyland theme park, but somehow even more gaudy, ostentatious, sometimes bizarre, … Continue reading →

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Catastrophe at the races, Hong Kong 1918

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Robert Bickers

Our last post showed the fairly rudimentary Peking Race Club in 1891. The first of the important foreign race tracks in China was at Happy Valley in Hong Kong. This photographic postcard shows the scene just after 3 p.m. on … Continue reading →

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