THE SOUND AGENTS Liverpool Heritage Organisation
Liverpool England
Friday 20 September 2024
JUST GIVING CAMPAIGN REACHES 100%
Thursday 5 September 2024
MUSEUM IN THE STREET
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The Sound Agents are raising funds to remember Gladys Aylward, a missionary who often visited 20 Nelson Street, Chinatown, Liverpool, now the Guangdong Social Club previously Chilli Chilli restaurant.
20 Nelson was formerly a Mission. Gladys remarkable story of her journey to China despite obstacles in life she went on to save over a hundred orphans from a Japanese invasion, was captured in a book entitled: The Small Woman written by Alan Burgess
In 1958 the book was made into a film by 20th Century Fox, starring Ingrid Bergman, Curt Jurgens and Robert Donat and a couple of hundred Liverpool Chinese children! The set of China was built in Beddgelert North Wales and the children went to stay in hostels with chaperones.
Chinese Ambassador Dr Wellington Koo opening the Chinese Republican Progress Club 1941 |
Dr Wellington Koo |
Monday 22 July 2024
BLUE PLAQUE FOR THE FORCIBLY DEPORTED CHINESE SEAMEN
Joe Phillips Sze |
Charles and Yvonne Foley |
Judy Kinnin, John Sze and Keith Cocklin |
With thanks to Pine Court Housing Shaun Williams and David Draper Pictured with Judy Kinnin The BBC filmed the event, 20:23 mins in Look Northwest Forced Chinese Deportations The plaque was funded by a CrowdFund campaign ran by The Sound Agents |
Tuesday 16 July 2024
BLUE PLAQUE FOR THE DEPORTED CHINESE SEAMEN AND THE CHILDREN AND WIVES LEFT BEHIND
Kwok Fong also owned The Far East Restaurant next door, when the Boarding House closed the restaurant expanded. Kwok Fong and his son Tony Kwok were present when the police raided the Boarding Houses and took the men down to the Docks to an awaiting ship in the Sloyne in the River Mersey. Never to see their families again.