Hong Kong Heritage

This year, Dr Dan Waters, 93, will mark 60 years in Hong Kong. In this weekend's programme he continues his recollections of the 1960s, a turbulent decade of typhoons, drought and riots, part of which was under the governorship of Sir David Trench.

The Hong Kong Military Service Corps began formally in 1948 and consisted of Hong Kong Chinese soldiers who served in various regiments of the British Army, although the history of Chinese labourers for the British military begins 100 years before th...

This weekend on Hong Kong Heritage. Jonathan Wattis of Wattis Fine Art talks to Annemarie about the collection of art of Sir Catchick Paul Chater - which became the foundation of Hong Kong's museum system. He shows her exquisite artwork from 200 ye...

With money from the Lord Wilson Heritage Trust, conservateur Paul Harrison and a bunch of volunteers have restored 18 gravestones of the Russian and Armenian communities in Happy Valley Cemetery. This week Paul and Annemarie continue their walk aro...

With money from the Lord Wilson Heritage Trust, conservateur Paul Harrison and a bunch of volunteers have restored 18 gravestones of the Russian and Armenian communities in Happy Valley Cemetery. This week Paul and Annemarie continue their walk aro...

This weekend, conservateur Paul Harrison talks about the 18 Russian and Armenian graves he and his team of volunteers have been restoring in Happy Valley and the stories of some of these people with Annemarie Evans, on Hong Kong Heritage.  (Saturda...

As the bells toll in Central district, Stuart Wolfendale sits in the sunny garden next to St John's Cathedral to tell Annemarie all about the church and Anglican Diocese's history, since the Cathedral was built in 1849. Money was always scarce,...

As the bells toll in Central district, Stuart Wolfendale sits in the sunny garden next to St John's Cathedral to tell Annemarie all about the church and Anglican Diocese's history, since the Cathedral was built in 1849. Money was always scarce, bu...

In the 50s and 60s Hong Kong was a major manufacturing base in the world - toys, transistors, watches were all "made in Hong Kong". Some 2,000 years ago it also manufactured salt.  We have mines and mills, but Hong Kong's industrial heritage is ve...

Year enders 2013

Hong Kong Heritage this weekend is about a documentary made about the Peninsula Hotel and the Peninsula Hotels around the world called Tradition Well Served to mark the hotel in Hong Kong's 85th anniversary. Annemarie talks with producer Elaine Fors...

25 Years of Wattis Fine Art 14-12-2013

20 years of HKYAF 7-12-2013

Betty Yao on John Thomson Exhibition 30-11-2013