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Hongkong Daily Press.

ESTABLISHED 1857.

No. 22,545 #@¶¶±Ãƒƒ ƒƑ**** HONG KONG, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1930. 伍拜禮

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KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY. LONDON'S LONGEST STREET TO GO.

TIME TABLE.

On and after AUQUST 2ru, 194, antil Farther Nation (all previous Time Tables cascoiled).

UP TRAINS

STATIONS No.7 No.

Ba.10 To

No, 11 No.14,16 No.9 No. 19, No.11 No.ts'Hos A.20

PK 1.3. PM, P.KĮ EX. F.M.P.M.

Kowloon,Dan. 8,851 8.00 8.94 9.05 10.00 13.01 1182.84 3,00 4,80 5,40) 7.49 Yarmati Dop. 5.44 Skatin...Dep. 8.58

Talpo...Dep 7,10

Talpo

Market. Dep. 7.15 Fanling.. Dep. 7.25

Sheung

hul... Dep. 7,50

Bundays & Holiday a waly

9.15) 10.08 12.70) 1.312 4,27 10,2012,23 1,89); 948 10.33 12,35) 1.51];

9.49 10.37 19.69 1,55 10.00 10.47| 12,49) 3,03|M 9.01110.03 10.68) 12,542.10

shua...Am. 7.36 8.40 2.0710.11) 10.58 1,00 2,16

Canton...A.—- 12.86

8.18

4,88.5.48 7.58 4.50 6.00 8,05 5,046,138,17

* 6,09 0,178,22 6,16 4.97 8.38 6.23 6.32 8.37 9.19 2.40 6.89) 6,38 6.43

1734-

5.42/

DOWN TRAINS

STATIONS

Be. No. 7 No.1

L.K. A.M. ÁM

No.15 No. No.17 0.19 | No.

P.X. P.M. P.M A.K.

...Dup,

8.25

Canton

Shumohan...Dop. Sheung bai Don. Fanling

.7.25 ...Dop.

Taipo Market. Dop. Taipo

Dop.

Shatin...Dep. Yanmati...Dep. Kowloon... ÅTT.

| 2,42 | 4.46 | 5,54

7.137.89 13.34, 11.18 12.19 3.85 4.39 6.47 7.30 9.09 10,48 11.25

9.10

10.47 11.29 2,83 8.21 10,87 11.40 7.40 8.26 11.01 11.45 7.63 9,99 11.14 11.59

8.00 9.61 11.26 12.13

2.404,505,58 7.56 5.00 6.08 3,03 8,048,13

8,15-5.176.26 18,275,20 6.88

No. No, 10 P.MP.M.

8.25

6.53|| 7.19 7,00

8.12 8,57 11.32 13,18 19,50 3,33 5,85 8,44 7.36 ·· 7,59

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£100,000 CLEARANCE SCHEME.

LITTLE KNOWN SCENES DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE.

The application of Bermondsey Borough Council for permission to borrow £100,000 for alum clearance marka a further advance of the policy of this authority to rid the

district of slums which once includ- ed some of the worst housing areas in London.

.

Three years ago, after incredible difficulty and delay, a start was made to clear. Hickman'a Folly, the Jacob's Island of “Oliver Twist," This was followed by an attack on the Salisbury Street area, compris ing about four acres of ground, on which were 151 houses inhabited by 1,035 persona. Now this tasit of rebuilding is proceeding the council makes its third advance on slum dom, among its objectives this time being Paradise Street, and Rother hithe Street...

Thus some of the oldest and most interesting property on Thames-side. is brought under notice by the latest demolition scheme, Many years ago Bermondsey's proud boast. to all London was voiced in the following doggorel:-

The longest stroet,

The greatest store,

The widest bridge,

The greatest bore.

There are not many people who can say what are those four things, but an old resident will explain that the longest street was Rother- hithe Street, 2 miles; the greatest store, King and Queen Granary; the widest Bridge, Millgood Bridge; and the greatest hore, the Thumes Tunnel.

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wharven and warehouses are busy | and dock tarific on the move, while the street is so narrow that two large vehicles have diffoulty in pass- ing

new P'onl of bells, erected at the Parish Church of St. John, Horsolydown, took place, when a society of gentlemen, who were lovers of the art of ringing, gave ten gold-laced hats and a dinner to be rung for by different ringers. About 10 o'clock a set of young gentlemen ascended the lower to gratify a number of hearers with a specimen of their unparalleled abilities in that art.

They

Among the NO3? people who will bo affected by the clearanco scheme in this area are those belonging to some of the oldest families in Lon- don. Bermondsey do a whole, lying in a loop of the river, is a back- water of London which has been least affected by the ebb and flow of population; ita people retain marked characteristics as real Lon donors, and Rotherhithe Street in a colony of them. They are the de- scendants of watermen who were once a prosperous fraternity of the riverside; some can trace back several generations of one family occupying the same house. To-day they retain a respectability far down, have not been rung for many above the poverty to which they havo sunk.

Descendants of Sea Captains.

tonements.

wern obliged to quit the steeple through private doors in order to avoid the loud reception prepared for them by the auditors. After this the Society of Cumberland Youths ascended the steeple, and, amidst the acclamations of up- wards of 10,000 spectators, rang the first peal complent. The bells of St. John's Horsely.

years.

Varied History.

monumenta}

Though this part of London has It is the same in other parta come down in the world, no other of Bermondsey. Everywhera may borough has such a varied history, be found descendants of old sea-cap- The Abbey of St. Caviour, Ber- tains who were born and bred in mondegy, ORG of the greatest Bermondsey and retired to spend monastic houses in Southern Eng- their last days in style in Princes land, has now disappeared without Street or Cherry Garden Street. leaving a trace. There was once Their old houses, with the finos spa at Bermondsey, with a chaly- carved doorways and panelled beate spring and entertainments in rooms, are now let off in one-room the summer seasons. John Timbs

records the delightful gardens In the Paradise Street area, at Snow Fields, Bermondacy, where scheduled for demolition, it is re he spent his childhood, and Curtis. ported that twenty-one adults and the author of sixteen children were living in Flom Londinensis," rst cata twelve rooms. In one back room a lished in Bermondsey the famous many his wife, and Ave children botanical gardens, afterwards re- were sleeping. Yet this is in the moved to Brompton. A century It is on the 2 miles of Rother old parish of Berselydown, and at ago it was noted for market gar hithe Street that the new attack is the back may be found a romantic dens, and old people remember proposed to be made. Anyone who bit of old London round.St. John's Pettit's farmhouse in Blue Auchor wishes to sco a real bit of old Lon- Church of that parish, near which Lane. don, with wooden houses 200 years is the old charity school, with the old, riverside inns with balconies carved figures of two children still overhanging the river, old, wharves to be seen adorning the front. rich in ancient picturesquenos,

and redolent with the W. W. Jacoba Fatmosphere, should explore its lang, narrow, and winding length one Sunday morning. At any other time it would be difficult, for the

Old Wooden Houses,

An old news sheet, published in 1784, contains the follownig account of bell-ringing in Horselydown:-

Monday last being kept as the anniversary of Hor Majesty's nativity, a grand opening of the

It was the siming of the Green wich railway in the forties that set Bermondsey on the downward grade. Much has been done in the past six years to raise it from the squalor into which it had sunk, and not the least has been the beautification scheme of the local council, which pent £10,000 in trees and plants.

Diary of Coming Events.

Today, Queen's Theatre: "It's A Great Life."

World Theatre: "Madonna of Avenue A."

Star Theatre: "Noah's Ark." Central Theatro: "Tanned Legs." Majestic Theatro: "Lilac Time." Lecture Mr. A. C. Braine-

by Hartnell on 'Dr. Johnson," at the University, 8.30 p.m.

Amateur Dramatic Concert at St. Andrew's Hall, Kowloon, o pim. Jumble Sale, Union Church. Dinner Dance: Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.3.

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European Mail:-Outward: Europe vid Siberia (Hupeh), 10.30

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Saturday.

World Theatre: "Madonna of Tea Dance: Poninsula Hotel, Avenue A."

Star Theatre: "Noah's Ark.” Central Theatre: "Tanned Loga." Majoatia Theatre: ilac Time." 9th Extra Race Meeting, Happy Valley.

p.m.

Caraival and Special Dinner Dance at Repulse Bay Hotel.

European Mail-Outward: Europe i Marseilles (Khyber), Official opening of Clubhouse of 10.30 a.m.; Europe vid Siberia the K.B.8.F.P.A. at King's Park,(Newcbang), 1.30 p.m. 4.30 p.m.

Criekot: 2nd Div. (League); Re- creio v. I.R.C. 1st XI. (Friendly): C.S.CO. . I.R.C.

Football1st Dir.: Navy v. Chinese, Club v. Argylls, Somersets . 8. China, Pulice 1. St. Joseph's,

Recreio. 2nd Div Kowloon v. R.A, v. Navy, Chinese . Recreio, S. China . University, St. Joseph's

Sunday. (October 50.)

Queen's Theatre: "Rogue Song." Central Theatre: "Journey's End."

Star Theatre: "Rookies.". World Thontre: "Heroes of the Wild" Episodes 1 & 2 and "Hores-

e. Club, Argylla v. Somerseta, Kow-men of the Plains," (October 23.)

loon. Eastern, 3rd Div.: R.A.- Queen's Theatre: "It's A Great B.C. v. 8.L.I., R.E. . Fukien, S. China . B.A.0.C., Chinose ...E. Life."

Baseball at Navy ground.. "Children's Day," Filipino Club, King's Park

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