Crew and passengers aboard the houseboat 'Pursuit'

Crew and passengers aboard the houseboat 'Pursuit'

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: JM02-029. The woman sitting on the dorade box (cowl vent) is Phyllis Amy Harrop (1904-1994), who married John Montgomery on 11 July 1929 in Manchester, England. The couple divorced in July 1933. Phyllis Harrop escaped from Hong Kong after the Japanese occupation and later wrote ‘Hong Kong Incident’. See https://gwulo.com/node/18130. See JM01-107, JM02-030 and JM02-031 (same women and place). See Ar03-064 (same houseboat).

Estimated Date

1920s-1930s

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

Repository

University of Bristol Library, Special Collections