盤點 Stock Check 2025.07
雜碎筆記，緣起地皮史，特別係皇后大道中，不過越寫就越雜。原因係，每寫一個題目，會無意觸及其他人物事，於是岔開不同支線，每條支線要深究，每次完稿時間，就會越嚟越來長。幾年來，積壓文案越來越多，本來對前路心態，係長命功夫長命做。來到2025年年中，粗略盤點一下，就已經有以下嘅項目。除非有人問，當中好多，睇來可能無限擱置。
原因係要盡快返回去筆記原點，地皮研究。有些題目，譬如仲寫緊嘅匯豐銀行，因為涉及地皮，仲可能影響無咁大。不過，地皮成為短期內主題。完。
▪️ HSBC
- Corporation ordinance
- limited liability, Co-partnership, sole proprietor
- public & private list
- Our public spirit
- Board & Management 1864-1873
- Money supply M1
- economic crisis 1866
- North Wing New Extension 1868
▪️T.L. Walker & his family in HK
- the Gothic Revivalist
- Superintendent R.S. Walker
- Mr. & Mrs. A.E. Vaucher
▪️Ship building
- Shipwright William Cowper
- John Cardno Couper
- Docks in Whampoa 1840-70
- Union Dock
- Hongkong & Whampoa Dock
- Lamont
▪️ Court case
- Landstein v Tự Đức
- rendition case of 1870s
- Kate Water
▪️Foreign port
- Turon
- Salem, home of US traders
- Nagasaki
- Yokohama
- Bombay
- San Francisco
- Osaka mint factory
▪️Pass-by in HK
- Gweilo
- John Thomson, arrivals, travel, studio
- Beato and
- Alexandre Yersin at Queen's Road
- Chinese
- 郭亞章
- Japanese passengers in transit 1860s
▪️Stay behind HK
- John M. Armstrong
▪️Chinese painter in HK
▪️Foreign merchant
- Endicott
- Burrows, more
- Lapraik
- Sayle
- Crosby
- Duddell
- Peacock
- Glover
- Partners of US co.: Hunt, Heard, Russell
- family trees : Sassoon, Forbes ...
- Parsee: Cama, Camajee etc
▪️Ship
- US Asiatic Squadron
- USS Unadilla / Dang Wee
- 90-day gunboats
- USS Aroostook, Maumee, Iroquois
- USS Hartford
- British gunboats 1850s , 60s
- Albacore class
- Clown class
- Vigilant class
- Arrow class
- HMS Cockchafer
- Japanese fleet 1850s, 60s
- British tea race : Cutty shark etc
- US ship: Mary Whittredge, Flying Cloud etc
- Gunboat market in 1860s
- tug of war : propellor vs paddle steam
- explosion of hulk Zephyr
▪️Fairey biplane in HK
- Flycatcher
- Fairey III
- Swordfish
▪️Policy 1850s to 60s
- Neutrality to US civil war
- Neutrality to Tai Ping civil war
▪️Soldier
- Havilland / patrol jacket / Sandhurst / cemetery
- Goldsbourough
- American Chinses in civil war
▪️Lands Dept. officials
- Pope
- Cleveland
- Assow
- Captain William Cowper
▪️Building construction
- Downspout, gutter, drainage
- Roof structure
- Stone wall, form
- Veranda as an building extension
▪️Buildings
- Elliot Crescent
- Marine House
- St. Francis Hospital Wanchai
- Crosby's store
- Morgan & Canton bazaar
- Central Market
- Victoria Exchange
- Commercial Bank Building
- Alexandra Terrace
- A. Ellissen & Co
- circular building
- Heard's Office
- Victoria Exchange
- Salvation Army at Kwai Chung 1950
▪️Landmark
- Spring Gardens 1840s, 1850s
- The Gap
- Observation Point
- Wanchai Road & the Praya East reclamation 1860
- plants of HK public garden
- sign of Shanghai public garden
▪️Hotel / Inn
- Hotel d'Europe
- Stag
- Commercial
- Oriental
- the land we live in
- Colonial
- Criterion
- Liverpool Arms
- Victoria
- Keying House / Oriental Hotel
▪️Passage to Canton, 16-18 c
- Western narrative: Tchoukiang, Qvantvng ....
- A survey to old charts 16-19c
- Lantau & Tamão Is
- Classic Whampoa impression: chop, bankshalls ...
- What is Canton ?「番禺」城「南海」郡治
- Anchorage： 扶胥, Macau, Lute Is., Danes Is.
- 華夷秩序下貿易：海禁、朝貢、互市
- British Canton 1857-1860
Crumbtracker, FB 13/7/2025
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