1957-04-22 — Page 101

CHINA MAIL

MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1957.

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MODERN AGE WYNDHAM STREET KEEPS ITS

OLD-FASHIONED TRIMMINGS

The picture above taken by our Staff Photographer is familiar to everyone. It is a view of present-day Wyndham Street, the Colony's "Fleet Street". But few today will remember the scene on the right which is Wyndham Street about 50 years ago, with its sedan chairs and flower stalls,

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GENERAL HOLIDAY Monday, April 22 By Air Thailand, Burma, India, 1 p.m. Philippines, 2 pan. Burns. India, Poldrtan, Middle Est, Great Britain, Europe, 0 p.m.

By Surface

Macao, 1 p.mi. Macao, 0 p.m.

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TUESDAY, APRIL 23 By Air

Peking, Shanghai, Kuzming. Han- Boow, Floshow. 4.m.

Thailand, Cambodia, § 4.53. Indo-China, Franco, 1 p.m. Australia, New Zealand, a'p.m. Crum, Herwell, U.S.A, 2 p.m. PrRippines. 2 Dark

Malaya, Indonesia, Ceylon, 3 p.m. Formos, p.m.

Thailand, Burma, India, Pakistan,

Europe, 6 p.m.

Japan, 0 p.m. 7

Clorada, 0 p.m..

JOHN CLARKES

CASEBOOK

Up From Somerset

TWO years ogo this

month Jim Came to London, Ho came from Somerset where he worked G& A gardener. What brought him at the age of 43 from there to here, what persuaded him to exchange the pleasantness of West Country gardens for bare existence scratched from London's back alleys, only Jim knows.

Ambition rides him, if at Street." Three all, with the lightest of news reins, and he does not seem

Once flower stalls used to A Hongkong Telegraph "When the Kowloon gar- cause they obstructed their line its sidewalks. The hill article in 1918 says: "At den lots were opened up (in frontage,. They moved then climbed gently from the one time the Hongkong the Sixties) and flowers be to their present site in busy main street. Tall old Club occupied the block in came cheapor and more D'Agullar Street, banyan trees throw an Queen's Road between plentiful, the little baskets So the facade of Wynd- umbrella of shade over the Wyndham Street and of nosegays displayed at ham Street changes through sedan chairs that lined the D'Agullar Street (from the corner of Wyndham the years. Today it in "left-bank", as they still do 1846 to 1897) and, as men Street became big ones; and more famous as Hongkong's

were continually passing in the step from buttonholes "Fleet Thirty years ago, when or out of the Club buildings, to bunches of cut flowers, English-language the Colony still lived in the It occurred to a number of and thence to wreaths, papers including the oldest the kind of man for whom, sedate age of sedan chairs Chinese that, if these could crosses, etc., was but a in the Colony, the China in middle age, bright lights and chits, 50 of the 800 be persuaded to buy button- short one. The sellers in- Mail, founded in 1842, come and a busy chairs had their rank in holes, the sale thereof creased in number, and from the Morning Post hold much enchantment,

today.

cars

by a Staff Correspondent

their

wares

of

citys' would

More likely a quarrel or a scolding drove him to make the change, for Jim is a delicate, scared-looking man.

WEALTH

1

Wyndham Street. It was

building, and around the one of the main ranks then.

corner of Wellington Street It is virtually the last rank

is another small Chinese today with four of the

publishing house, remaining six based there to serve customers whose would be a very profitable spread farther and farther Rickshaws, like so much best memories are of an undertaking.

along Wyndham Street, till flotsam thrown up by the other age.

"Hence quite a number that thoroughfare gained receding tide of an earlier Rickshaws and parked of hawkers began to hang its present alias.”

age, today occupy the place HERE, for two years, he has the flower stalls. A kitchen porter, a lonely unit in

I done casual work as have replaced the about the doorway and soon flower stalls, and the flowers found that

In 1928, when it was de green telephone box stands a robust world. have moved onto the slopes were in great demand. So cided to pull down the old on the corner and Wynd- of D'Aguilar Street above popular, in fact, did the building which had original ham Street looks out an to Late the other evening Jim Wellington Street. The nosegays become that many ly accommodated the Hong- the

was arrested by two policemen rushing traffic of who, as they told Sir Laurenco modern offspring is hardly business men, who liked to kong Club to build the Queen's Road and the Dunne at Bow Street, had seen recognisable from the have their conts decorated, King's Theatre, the stall- hurrying throngs that pass him "loitering with Intent" Wyndham Street that was entered into little contracts holders were told that they by oblivious of the charms about unattended cars.

Now it is undergoing fur- by which, for so much a would have to go elsewhere. that once made this street Jim pleaded not guilty, and ther changes. Early next month, the hawkers agreed

was to one of the show places of said in a hungry, desperate sort of way: "Why should I steal? year, Shell House, which to leave flowers at their On Lan Street, but the the Colony and earned it'd 18 bob in my pocket, and was built in 1922, is coming offices daily.

shopkeepers objected be something like world fame. bet-uckets for four nights, and down to make way for L modern multi-storey office

block. And a gaping recess

which looks more like the work of dentist's forceps than a demolition squad, marks the end of the his- toric block which once housed the China Mail office in No. 5.

Seven Storeys

Facing this site is the seven-storey Victory House which is another post-war addition to Wyndham Street. This was built in 1947 on the site of a build- ing that was bombed during the Japanese occupation. According to newspaper files it was either the first or one of the first buildings to be put up in the Central District after the re-occupa- tion.

Farther up Wyndham Street in the terrace, No. 21 has been demolished. This looks out on the old Dairy Farm ice works which, on the Wyndham Street-Lower Albert Road corner, itself looks out on the destruction of another part of old Hong- kong -- one of the stately Glenealy buildings opposite St Paul's Church,

There the tall banyan trees still stand, much like those that use to grace Wyndham Street; Taipan's Nosegays

Their first move

Radio H.K. and Rediffusion

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Commentary by John Wallace from 12, Take 1 from Here. Dick Bentley Club and Jimmy Edwards with Walles Continental 10.30, Artie Shaw and Ground: 10.15, "Something Eaton, Alma Cogan, June Whitleld. his Orchestria: 10.88, Weather Re (A Repeat of the last edition of port; 11, Time Bignal Radio News

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All the wealth in the world, he made that seem

IF THE JOB SUITS

"DOESN'T it seem funny,. trying to steal, with all' that?" he said. "It strikes me stealing's the action of a man that's broke."

He was found guilty. It was his first conviction,

"Toll me" Sir Laurence said to Jim, "where do you want to work, London or the country?" "It doesn't matter, if the job sults me," Jim said.

"What sort of job?"

"Kitchen porter's all I'm sultable

for," Jim said, resignedly.

"Well, we'll try to help you." Sir Laurence said, "but before we can do that properly, I'll get a medical report about you. See?"

Jim nodded and left for the remand prison, where

the doctors would perhaps be able to launch him on a voyage of re-discovery of his old skilla and the desire he must have had to live and not just to exist,

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Japan, 2 p.m. Micro, 6. p.m.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24 By durface

China, People's Ropabile, 7 a.m,

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Aden, Middle East, Italy, Frano

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Pan (P. India, parcels

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Challand, à 1.02

****TRUESDAY, APRIL 25

By: Surface China, People's Republic, 7. Formoen, Korea, 3 pm. Austenting New Zenind, 5 p/m/ Macao, U p.m.

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