Hugh Farmer: We currently have over 2,600 articles posted on the website. I wonder if you could spare a little time to help the site develop. The life blood of the Group and the website is articles, either about a new subject or adding additional information to one already posted. Articles do not need to be long nor with a […]
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HF: In the spring of 1928 Arnhold & Co, Ltd. decided to start selling aircraft and hired WEF Jones to head the operation. The Arnhold Aviation Department was born on 1 April 1928. A two-seat de Havilland DH 60 Moth was purchased for demonstrations in Shanghai and arrived early in 1929 and Captain FA Swoffer was engaged as Chief Pilot. […]
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HF: Oasis Hong Kong Airlines was founded by Rev. Raymond C. Lee, and his wife Priscilla K. Lee in February 2005. The chief executive, Steve Miller, was founder and first chief executive of another Hong Kong based airline, Dragonair. Its inaugural route to London commenced on 26th October 2006. The first flight, flight 08 700, took off from Hong […]
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HF: Central Mid-level Escalator is the world’s longest outdoor covered escalator system, opened in 1993. It runs for over 800m and rises over 135m in elevation, from Queen’s Road Central up to Conduit Road. It was built to ease traffic congestion in the residential Mid-levels district, and comprises of 20 escalators and three inclined moving walkways. The system runs downhill […]
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HF: The apparently disused factory shown in the photos below is located on Ping Ha Road, Ping Shan and is immediately to the north of the Century Centre as shown on the map below. Its two or possibly three factory buildings are in one compound which I was unable to enter. Jennifer Wong has kindly translated the signs shown on […]
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HF: There are a number of companies with similar names. William C Jack & Company Ltd., Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, was incorporated in Hong Kong on 19th April 1907 and dissolved on 26th June 1953. William Jacks & Company Ltd William Jacks & Co (Hong Kong) Ltd was incorporated on 25th April 1964 and (possibly) dissolved on 31st August […]
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Stephen Davies: The pre-WW2 Tathong Light is not where the present light is. That is a new light created out of the gun emplacement that the Japanese built. The old light was down to the SE, close to where the landing pier is for the Marine Department’s navigation service boat. It was a 21 foot tall concrete pillar and showed a […]
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HF: The SCMP of 26th July 2015 carried a report about the death of Ho Hung Yee who ran an umbrella stand on at the top end of Peel Street for decades. The article begins…”A fixture of the Central street scene dubbed the “Umbrella Man” for the decades he spent helping Hongkongers stay dry has died at the age of […]
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HF: Further information about Hong Kong’s largest mine. ”The Ma On Shan Iron Mine is a mine in the hills of Ma On Shan, Shatin District, Hong Kong, that was operated from 1906 to 1976. The nearby Ma On Shan Village accommodated the miners and their families. The Ma On Shan Mine was opened in 1906 as an open cast […]
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IDJ has kindly provided this brief history of Hong Kong Electric’s Ap Lei Chau Power Station, together with all of the images shown here which he has collected over the years. IDJ says the book A Mountain of Light, The Story of the Hongkong Electric Company by Austin Coates, says very little about the Ap Lei Chau Power Station apart […]
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