Preserving Hong Kong’s Industrial Heritage
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pak_pai 1977, John Le, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 471: He took pak-pais, knowing they were less under the thumb of the police. John Le Carré’s, The Honourable Schoolboy, is the sentence, “He took pak-pais, knowing they were less under the thumb of the police.” xxxx York Lo: Pak Pai means white plate which is just a regular license plate as in […]
» Read moreHF: My photos plus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rivers_and_nullahs_in_Hong_Kong See: Open up Hong Kong’s rivers and drainage channels to revitalise city, expert says SCMP 13th January 2018 When Hong Kong textile mills were free to pollute Victoria Harbour and streams ran red, green, and yellow with run-off SCMP 12th July 2018 Indhhk article – Union Construction Co/Union Contractors (華聯建築)
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» Read moreSee: Lin Ma Hang Mine Part 2 – The Yung Years see: https://industrialhistoryhk.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=39199&action=edit Lin Ma Hang Mine Part 3 – Exploitation see: https://industrialhistoryhk.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=40942&action=edit https://gwulo.com/node/14308 https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/morrison-brown-yung_125828045 Frank Yung, MBY’s son has sent the following images taken from a Hong Kong Commercial Daily newspaper of December 2014. The photograph below was taken on a visit to the Lin Ma Hang mine where […]
» Read moreHF: See: Cathay Pacific and pilots ironing out deal by new year to end four-year dispute over pay, allowances and roster in second bid SCMP 2nd December 2018 Cathay Pacific’s link to once powerful people of northern China – how the mighty have fallen SCMP 25th May 2019 When Cathay Pacific ground staff went on strike over pay and working […]
» Read moreYen Dack Land Investment (仁德置業) By York Lo Article about Yen Dack Land in 1962 with sketch of Yen Dack Building (WKYP, 1962-9-19) Yen Dack Land Investment is one of the lesser known developers which has developed many buildings in Hong Kong with the character “Yen” in its names since the 1960s. Left: wedding picture of Chan Kwong-dew and Gwendolyn […]
» Read moreem 6th Jan 2019 Hugh There have been a number of HK government booklets on Kai Tak a few are in the HKHAA office archives The only one I have with me is the pages attached without the title/cover sheets. It may have come from Chic Eather’s website. While in HK we produced some dust covers for four of my […]
» Read moreResearch into Bixby cam about because of our article, Chinese lighthouse keepers’ wives – 1930s Japanese preference IDJ says the script in the article came from… The reference came from privately published pre-war written book ‘Topside Ricksha’ by Harold M. Bixby. Believed to be of very limited circulation. As far as I am aware never produced commercially. The lighthouse comments […]
» Read moreSee: Reclamation ‘the only way to form land’, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam says, defending HK$500 billion ‘Lantau Tomorrow Vision’ plan SCMP 12th October 2018 Hong Kong still needs land reclamation, Carrie Lam insists as thousands take to streets in protest against controversial artificial island plan SCMP 14th October 2018 Is Hong Kong ready to splash HK$500 billion (or more) […]
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xxxxx Source: Hong Kong’s love for Vespa scooter revealed in photos from 1950s and 60s SCMP 31st March 2018 See: http://www.vespa.com/en_EN/Heritage.html vespa – wikipedia
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