![]() ![]() The later ones in 60s & 70s I took as I was wandering around. The photos in the early 70s I took as I knew I was leaving Hong Kong soon and I wanted a few memories. ![]() Most of the photos in the early 60s were taken by Dad, as I was still young. I returned to UK and worked for BOAC/British Airways as an aircraft Dispatcher for 37 years before retiring 2009. the food, buying my records in Diamond Music, learning to drive on Shatin Airstrip, and Lowenbrau at King's Lodge! ![]() I grew up in Hong Kong during the 60s and will always have marvellous memories of the place. Great memories of playing in the Hong trophy matches at Chater Rd and Jock's Pot Boxing Day football v Swire's, and all the wonderful characters & players I met at the KCC. My time was spent playing cricket and football, for both Jardines and KCC and popping into the USRC for a swim. it cost me a month's salary £65, not bad!īy that time I had left school and was working at Kai Tak as a Traffic clerk, before becoming a Load Controller / Flight Dispatcher.a wonderful time but as a local employee it couldn't last when my parents retired in 1971. So getting a table a Maxim's for lunch was no problem, or announcing that her son wanted to buy a Rolex in a jewellery shop - 43 years later its still on my wrist. My Mother worked at the old Sea Terminal and eventually was PA to Eric Wood, CEO of the Ocean Terminal, a wonderful place to shop and wander round. Mum knew all the shop owners and retail outlets, and as a former ATS Captain, she had day to day control it seemed. ![]()
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