HF: “By December 1942 around 18,000 Hong Kong Chinese fishermen were reported to be receiving instructions from the Amakusa Marine Products Industrial Company.” Snow, Philip, The Fall of Hong Kong: Britain, China and the Japanese Occupation, Yale University Press, 2003 I can find nothing out about this company which if the above is correct was prominent in the HK fishing industry […]
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HF: Elizabeth Ride has sent information about the British Army Aid Group’s (BAAG) drawings of Japanese installations which were made by agents to supplement written intelligence reports about Hong Kong during the Japanese Occupation in WW2. Some of the drawings and accompanying notes mention locations and companies directly connected with Hong Kong’s industrial history. Unfortunately the pages are not numbered. […]
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HF: “Since colonisation began, Australia has bred animals for export. In the 1820s, horses were sent to India for military and civilian use, while Western Australia started exporting live sheep in 1845. Australia’s first shipment of cattle arrived in Hong Kong in the 1880s. In 1903, sheep were sent to Africa, the Pacific islands and Asia.” The Age, Australia 8th May […]
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HF and Mike T: The following are extracts taken and adapted from the Conservation Management Plan for the Site of Lung Tsun Stone Bridge linked in full below. The Lung Tsun Stone Bridge was a pier built on the coastline of the old Kowloon City. The bridge (龍 津 石 橋 ) linked the main gate (East Gate) of the Kowloon […]
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Hugh Farmer with thanks to Tymon Mellor: This article was first posted on 13th May 2014. Related Indhhk articles: 1924 Report on the Commercial Development of the Port Of Hong Kong
» Read moreHF: Fung Chi Ming has sent chapter 5 of Hong Kong and its External Communication before 1842: The History of Kong Kong prior to British arrival. This contains a short section on The Relation between ‘Hong Kong’ and the Kuan-Hsiang’. And this partly concerns the former village of Hong Kong T’s’un (香港村) in what is now Aberdeen harbour and which was the sole […]
» Read moreHF: Initial information about this Hong Kong company. The following extract is from a 1944 BAAG WW2 report courtesy of Elizabeth Ride. This article was first posted on 10th May 2014 Related Indhhk articles: Early HK Shipyards and Graving Docks Bailey’s Shipyard – 1908 Account Kwong Hip Lung Shipyard Tai Koo Dockyard Wing On Shing Shipyard
» Read moreIDJ and Hugh Farmer. IDJ has sent this early 1950s image of a Kaolin Mine in the New Territories from Hong Kong in Picture and Story by John and Veronica Stericker published in HK in 1953. As IDJ says ‘ the book doesn’t say where it is located except it is “remote and difficult to access”. I have another 1950s book which […]
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In his article, Why “Lead Mine” Pass?, Tymon Mellor asked, based on his research, “Is the Shing Mun Arboretum on the site of the old lead mine that was closed in 1892 and after which Lead Mine Pass is named?” Thomas Ngan writes: I was in the Shing Mun Country Park area on 20th April 2014 and took a detour to the […]
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HF: Tai Ping Carpets was founded in 1956 by a group of seven friends. Each of the seed investors contributed HKD10,000 to build a factory to employ mainland refugees. I have found no information about where this factory was. No doubt the Anthony Lawrence book about the company mentioned at the end of this article would provide great detail regarding […]
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