Wallace Harper & Company Ltd – adverts
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Adverts sent by IDJ on 10/11/20 This article was first posted on xxxx xxxx. Related Indhhk articles: From Dodwell Motors and Gilman Motors to Metro-Dodwell and MD Motors
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Sam Mun Tsai…Plover Cove Reservoir
HF: Fishing has long been an important industry in Hong Kong, and therefore is worthy of inclusion on our website both when active and when in decline. This article is an example of the latter. Sam Mun Tsai is an area and a village in Yim Tin Tsai, Tai Po District, Hong Kong. Sam Mun Tsai is one of the […]
» Read moreWan Tat-ming (溫達明) and Ling Nam Weaving (嶺南布廠)
York Lo: Wan Tat-ming (溫達明) and Ling Nam Weaving (嶺南布廠) Left: Wan Tat-ming(Kung Sheung Evening News 1956-12-24); Right: Ad for Ling Nam Weaving in 1948 (Tung Wah Monthly, 1948) Like Shum Choy-wah who was covered earlier in another article, Wan Tat-ming (1911-1988) was a major figure in the weaving mill business and community leader in the 1940s through 1960s who […]
» Read moreAberdeen Technical School
HF: Many thanks to SCT for proofreading the following retyped copy of the original printed document. Aberdeen Technical School was built in 1935 for the purpose of providing vocational training to boys from poor families. The cost of the construction was donated by community leaders including the Hon. Fung Ping Shan and Sir Robert Ho Tung. In 1935 the then […]
» Read moreTai Shing Paper Mill – builders of the Aberdeen Lower reservoir, 1890
James Chan: I was out walking during Christmas time around the Aberdeen reservoirs on Hong Kong island. I saw an AFC Department sign which said, “Aberdeen Lower reservoir was built in 1890 by Tai Shing Paper Mill. It was taken over and reconstructed by the government because of the Aberdeen Valley Water Scheme. It was re-opened in 1932.” I had […]
» Read moreKuhn Mines Ltd, railway(s) at Ma On Shan mine – any information needed!
HF: On 4th November 2024 Tony Whitehorn sent the following message. ”I lived in Shatin in 1966 and clearly remember the large Kuhn Mine sign on the hillside near the shore off Ma On Shan. I also took note of it when I saw the film ”Sand Pebbles in Manila in 1967. Tolo Harbour was used to film the Yangtze […]
» Read moreHong Kong Water Supply – Lower Shing Mun Reservoir
Tymon Mellor: The development of the Shing Mun Valley for its water resources was first proposed back in 1924, and this led to the development of the Shing Mun reservoir. The 1924 study identified the opportunity to build a smaller reservoir down-stream from the main reservoir, but this was not progressed. It took the post-war water crisis for the Government […]
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