— Movie Clips from 1957-1964
1957 Shatin and the Red White and Blue Walk
My parents used to take us to the Red White and Blue Walk to collect pine cones before Christmas so that we could decorate them ?
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1957 To Sheko and back to Morrison Hill Road
Dad drove from Morrison Hill Road via North Point to Sheko and back again via Repulse Bay Road – was a fun outing!
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1957 Driving to Central and the Star Ferry
This is the route that both my father and Mrs Vargassoff would have taken to take us from Morrison Hill Road to the Star Ferry!
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1958 Aberdeen or somewhere
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1959 in Central & Paquerette
We took our dog, Brutus, down to Central District and ended up in Paquerette, the boutique my mother managed which was in the Gloucester Building, next door to Lane Crawford
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July 1959 VRC at Deep Water Bay
We used to go to the VRC quite often during the summer as the water at Deep Water Bay was always nice and clean to swim in. Sadly by the late 1960s & early 1970s it all changed and there were disgusting items, like poop, floating about. Yuck! ?
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1960 out and about in HK
Shots taken around Causeway Bay, the Roxy Theatre and ending up at the Race Course with mom and dad.
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1962 December
Christmas 1962. Lindy & Willem and me incapacitated after my operation by Prof Hodgsen for a torn cartilage ?
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Winter 1962-1963
Alpha and Brutus had TWELVE puppies and both my mother and I were up during the night to feed the little pups to make sure they all survived as not all could suckle from Alpha’s teats 😮
They all survived and Willem actually sent one back to Amersfoort to his parents!
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1963 Sailing with Sheila Stead on Pisces
Sheila Stead was a teacher at KGV – she never taught me but since I was a member of the Yacht Club and I knew she was looking for a crew on her Enterprise boat (called Pisces), I put my name forward and was chosen! I crewed for her for about 3 years and had a ball!
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1963 Broadwood Road
The family at our house on Broadwood Road, together with Brutus and Alpha!
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1963 on the Kents’ boat
Ma Kent (aka Betty) was one of mom’s sales ladies who was a close family friend together with her husband Lol and they’d often invite us to go out on their boat during summers.
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1964 Scenes from our house and Paquerette
Views of our garden and Laura, the parrot we inherited from one of mom’s sales lady when she returned to Germany. Also scenes of Causeway Bay and the top of Broadwood Road when it met Tai Hang Road.
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Christmas 1964
Christmas was always a fun time and my parents always spoiled me with wonderful gifts! That Christmas they gave me four matching Samsonite cases as we were going on leave the next year and I think mom wanted me to look chic when I boarded the ships ?
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1964 BBQ in our garden
My father must have got a new movie camera as he was fooling around with it, making me disappear and reappear with Alpha in my arms!! Also took a clip of us having a BBQ in the garden with Jenny, an old school friend of mine ?