IDJ has kindly sent the front page of the Hongkong Telegraph Pictorial Supplement of January 1937 about the official opening of the Jubilee Dam in Hong Kong by (His Excellency) the Governor of Hong Kong. This adds a little supplementary information to that which we already have on the Jubilee Dam, today known as the Shing Mun dam and reservoir. […]
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IDJ: These shipbreaking images were taken in the Junk Bay (Tseung Kwan O 將軍澳) area around the late 1970s or early 1980s. Junk Bay like Gin Drinkers Bay seemed to change by the month during this period with continuous reclamations so it’s very difficult to recognise some places over time. Especially when hills and mountains are flattened. In the second image of […]
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HF: A lighthouse. A swan. Great trademarks. Can you supply any more information about this company? See: HK Memory Hong Kong Memory (HKM) is a multi-media web site that gives free and open access to digitized materials on Hong Kong’s history, culture and heritage. The materials include text documents, photographs, posters, sound recordings, motion pictures and videos. This article was […]
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HF: Shiu Wing Steel Ltd is the only steel rolling mill currently in Hong Kong and is located at Tap Shek Kok, Tuen Mun. It operates a scrap collection yard at 18 Tung Yuen Street, Yau Tong at which the scrap is loaded onto lighters. I presume these are then towed to its mill in Tuen Mun. Can anyone confirm this? I […]
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HF: This interview with the 84 year old creator of Holga cameras, TM Lee, was conducted by Manami Okazaki in Mr Lee’s office in Hong Kong in February 2014. The interview has been slightly adapted. He talks about Holga’s history, including why the camera never sold in China, and the company’s efforts to stay afloat amid the slow demise of […]
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HF: I would be very interested to hear from anyone who has personal anecdotes or memories about any aspect of Hong Kong’s industrial past including those mentioned below. Whether you yourself or a family member worked in these industries, or you know of someone who left written memories or photographs, it would be great to hear about it. We are […]
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Peter Howell has sent further photographs taken during his time stationed at RAF Shatin Airfield, Hong Kong. HF: The Shek Kip Fire may not at first glance seem to have a connection to the industrial history of Hong Kong. However it directly led to the Government instigating public housing and, I believe, also to Government built public factory estates, also […]
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Tymon Mellor has sent a long and detailed account of the Fanling – Sha Tau Kok branch railway which operated from 1911 to 1928. HF adds: The report, written by RJ Phillips, and published in 1986 (?), obviously required a tremendous amount of research and perseverance and contains a large amount of information plus several, sometimes rather blurry, images including […]
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IDJ has sent the following newspaper article about the proposal to build a new airport for Hong Kong in Ping Shan which is just west of Yuen Long in the New Territories, as post World War Two Kai Tak was thought to be inadequate. HF: I have retyped the original article to make it more legible and to aid searches. […]
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IDJ has sent this account of seven Hong Kong lighthouses concentrating on details of their construction, cost, delivery, dates of opening and light visibility. They are: Pratas Shoal (proposal shelved) Waglan Island A site NE of Lamma Island (proposal shelved) Gap Rock Cape D’Aguilar (Hok Tsui) Green Island Cape Collinson Stephen Davies in his article, Lighthouses in HK pre-1941, linked […]
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