Hong Kong Reclamations 1841 to 1941 to 2013
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
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Hugh Farmer has lived in Hong Kong since 1989. He founded the Industrial History of Hong Kong Group in November 2012 to preserve and share information about the city's fast disappearing industrial heritage. This website was started in October 2013.
Export of ‘kuan-hsiang’ 莞香 incense from Hong Kong Ts’un, Aberdeen Harbour – Ming Dynasty
HF: 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 moreTaikoktsui Shipyards
HF: 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 moreKaolin Mine photo – near Laguna City, on Tsing Yi or Chek Lap Kok islands?
IDJ 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 […]
» Read more“Lead Mine” Pass – recent Shing Mun Arboretum visit
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 […]
» Read moreTai Ping Carpets International Ltd, 1956 to the early 1970s
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 […]
» Read moreCLP- Lawrence Kadoorie speech 1977 – HK + Hok Un Power Station during WW2
Hugh Farmer: The Hong Kong Heritage Project is a repository for the Kadoorie family’s history and archives. Part of this collection concerns the China Light & Power Company Syndicate founded in 1901, which became CLP and finally in 1998 CLP Holdings Ltd. This includes a speech Lawrence Kadoorie made in 1977 to the Hong Kong Management Association, regarding alternative energy sources. […]
» Read moreCheung Chau Electric Company – further information
Hugh Farmer: This page comes from the CLP website. It contains much information of great interest to us, including:, ” In the 1950s there were many small factories of leather, incense, paper, ice and shipbuilding on the island”. Secondly it reports that “kerosene was the fuel for electricity and thus the cost was high”. I had never heard of this […]
» Read moreKwik Djoen Eng / Kwok Chun Yeung (郭春映) – North Point streets
Hugh Farmer: There are two North Point street connected with The ‘Sugar King’. Not a bad memorial for someone more closely associated with the island of Java. This information is taken from the fascinating book, Signs of a Colonial Era, Yanne A and Heller G, Hong Kong University Press, 2009, p 135 Related Indhhk articles: Kwik Djoen Eng – North Point […]
» Read morePre-WW2 Industrialisation – products, when first manufactured and by whom
HF: The following list shows the product, date when first manufactured in Hong Kong and the company involved. The website has information about only of two of these, Leung So Kee Umbrella Factory, and The Hong Kong Cotton- Spinning, Weaving and Dyeing Co. Ltd. Therefore further information about any of these companies would be welcomed. And confirmation that they were indeed […]
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