Kwok Acheong – owner of ex-P&O Steamship works Hong Kong 1854

HF: The first Query and Answers, Kwok Acheong + P&O connection, linked below, sought further information about his taking over the ‘shipwright and engineering department’ from the P&O Steamship Company in 1854 in Hong Kong and says I can find nothing about this particular subject: where was the Dept, what particularly did it do and what happened to it post Kwok Acheong? Can anyone provide some […]

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Henry Bridges Endicott and The China Navigation Co. – early Swire days in China – Part One

The China Navigation Company’s parent company, John  Swire & Sons Limited, had its origins in a small Liverpool trading house founded in 1816. In 1866, John Samuel Swire (1825-1898) opened his first Far Eastern agency in Shanghai, and in 1872 he founded The China Navigation Company to operate a modest fleet of paddle steamers on China’s Yangtze River. IDJ has […]

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Tai Hing Knitting Factory

Mak Ho Ying has kindly translated the advert below: 1st row large-size text “Tai Hing Knitting Factory” 2nd row text “High quality products ★ considerate pricing” 3rd row text: this is to highlight the three brands of knitwear and the yarn socks “Pineapple Brand” “Durian Brand knitwear” “Scissors Brand” “Stylish yarn socks” Last row text: The factory’s address “No. 275 […]

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Marsman Hong Kong (China) Ltd – Needle Hill Tungsten Mine during 1938-1951?

Our article Needle Hill Tungsten Mine has the following extract: “This abandoned mine is situated on the southern slopes of Needle Hill between Upper Shing Mun reservoir and Tai Wai. It was among the largest mining operations Hong Kong has seen, [and certainly its biggest Tungsten Mine]. The deposit was discovered in 1935 by a civil engineer, Mr G Hull, […]

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China Oxygen & Acetylene Company

Ian Wolfe: This 1949 photo shows, in the orange triangle, the newly built China Oxygen and Acetylene Co., Ltd compound. The company was a subsidiary of the British Oxygen Company Ltd. [The yellow oblong shows an aerial ropeway within the Green Island Cement complex.] “Pursuing their policy of post-war expansion, the British Oxygen Company Ltd. some time ago formed a subsidiary […]

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Nga Tsin Wai Tsuen – last remaining walled village in Kowloon to become four tower blocks

HF: Nga Tsin Wai Tsuen,衙前圍村, (“the walled village in front of the yamen”), also known as Hing Yau Yu Tsuen, 慶有餘村, (“overflowing prosperity”) in San Po Kong, at the northen end of Kai Tak airport is the only walled village left in Hong Kong Island and Kowloon. The SCMP: Occupying an area of nearly 50,000 square feet…600 year-old square-shaped Nga Tsin Wai Tsuen […]

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Nga Tsin Wai Tsuen – demolition photos – January 2016

HF: I happened to be walking past Nga Tsin Wai on 27th January 2016 not knowing what was taking place there. I had been there often before and is the only place I have ever seen three street barbers operating in the same lane. The village had been almost fenced off, though this was still being carried out as I […]

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Unidentified Rubber Factory, Japanese occupation 1944, WW2

Elizabeth Ride These two BAAG agent’s drawings of a Hongkong Rubber Factory were probably published in a Kweillin Weekly Intelligence Summary (KWIZ). I cannot currently access the report which may well have accompanied them saying what the Japanese were using the factory for. The drawings are dated 22 June (or Jan?) 1944. HF: Immediately pre-WW2 there were several rubber companies in Hong Kong, seven […]

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