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9 months ago
Demolition Hong Kong 1960 - old Kowloon. 舊香港
Old Victorian buildings were being demolished and changed the face of old Hong Kong. Kowloon had many jewelry shops and money could even be sent to...
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10 months ago
Hong Kong squatters in 1962
I forgot where this was, but a viewer was so kind to tell me that the first scenes are located at Diamond Hill and the last scenes at Shek Kip Mei....
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@pinkysgrl So do I! My father drove me round to see the more sods after a typhoon at that time. Just loads of people picking through their completely destroyed huts, which themselves had been made of anything they could lay their hands on. Quite a contrast to our luxury lifestyle in Repulse Bay.
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1 year ago
TAC Campaign - 20 year Anniversary retrospective montage "Everybody Hurts" music by REM TV ad
On December 10th 1989 the first TAC commercial went to air. In that year the road toll was 776; by last year 2008 it had fallen to 303.
A five minu...
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1 year ago
Whitley Bomber
The first heavy bomber to fly over Germany in WW2.
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My Dad flew these from St Eval on anti U-Boat patrols with 10 OTU. To his eternal relief, he never spotted a U-Boat, as he was convinced attacking one in a Whitley would be suicide! Whitleys did sink a couple of U-Boats however. This was the aircraft he loved to fly as it was so slow and stable. ...
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