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- Rickshaw Makers’ Stores
- Mui Wo salt pans, Lantau Island
- The Hong Kong Paint Industry
- The King of Watchbands: Poon Yuen-sang (潘遠生) and Yuen Sang Hardware (遠生金屬)
- Rose, Downs and Thompson - Engineers, Hull and London, branch offices opened in Shanghai and Hong Kong in 1910s
- The Kennedy Town Slaughterhouses - initial notes
- Goodyear (嘉年): The Rise and Fall of a Real Estate Giant
- Proposed Peak Tramway extension to Queen's Road - interviews with Colony's leading residents
- Stone breaking in Hong Kong - two further images
- Friends & U’Land (友聯磁磚潔具): Leading Distributor of Sanitary Ware
- The Hongkong, Canton & Macao Steamboat Company
- Lok On Pai Desalting Plant - Water Supplies Department booklet, 1978
- Red Capitalist: the life and ventures of K.C. Wong (王寬誠,1907-1986)
- Kai Tack Motor Bus Company
- The Kowloon Canton Railway (British Section) 1910-1940 - major accidents/incidents
- Bakilly – the forgotten maker of perfumes, hair cream, toothpaste and other personal care products
- Sir Paul Chater - further information
- William MacGregor Smith (Wahee, Smith & Co.) c1831- c1907
- Makers of Preserved Fruits – Wong Wing Kee, Lee Wah Mui, Hing Ah, Lee Sin Kee, Heung Fat Wai Kee, Yam Hop Hing and Koon Wah
- Japanese suicide boats - end of occupation, WW2, possibly related BAAG reports
- Rose, Downs and Thompson - Engineers, Hull and London, branch offices opened in Shanghai and Hong Kong in 1910s
- The Kennedy Town Slaughterhouses - initial notes
- Makers of Preserved Fruits – Wong Wing Kee, Lee Wah Mui, Hing Ah, Lee Sin Kee, Heung Fat Wai Kee, Yam Hop Hing and Koon Wah
- Lockhart Report 1898 - NT - agriculture, indigo, hemp, cotton (Causeway Bay cotton mill)
- Peng Chau Island industry
- "They Fatten Fish to Feed Hong Kong"
- Pokfulam Dairy Farm
- Hong Kong Water Supply - Irrigation Reservoirs
- Ping Shan Enterprise Co Ltd, disused factory, Yuen Long
- Great South Fishing Industries (廣南漁業)
- WW2 Poultry Farms during the Japanese occupation
- The Fresh Water Fish Farming Industry of the New Territories
- Pearl Oysters at Mirs Bay (Pearl Pool), Tai Po Sea, during the Five Dynasties - details of overland route to Tuen Mun
- Pokfulam village, oldest village on Hong Kong Island and home to many workers at Dairy Farm Company
- World War Two -1945 BAAG report on occupied Hong Kong - dairy supplies & facilities
- Pokfulam village - close links to Dairy Farm 1886, SCMP article
- The Smithfield slaughterhouse, Kennedy Town - photos from 1894
- Salt production, oldest industry in Hong Kong, Tai O
- Homi Villa - built by Jehangir Hormusjee Ruttonjee during the construction of Hong Kong Brewers and Distillers Ltd Brewery
- Dairy Farm Company employees - a compilation
- Mui Wo salt pans, Lantau Island
- Rose, Downs and Thompson - Engineers, Hull and London, branch offices opened in Shanghai and Hong Kong in 1910s
- William MacGregor Smith (Wahee, Smith & Co.) c1831- c1907
- Makers of Preserved Fruits – Wong Wing Kee, Lee Wah Mui, Hing Ah, Lee Sin Kee, Heung Fat Wai Kee, Yam Hop Hing and Koon Wah
- The Construction of Western Market (North Block), 1902-1906
- Asia Provisions (亞洲辦館) and Asia Cold Storage (亞洲凍房)
- Po Chai Lemonin (普濟檸檬精)
- Three of Hong Kong's oldest restaurants, Part Three - the Gaylord
- Wo Fat Hing Distillery, Lung Wo village...Part Two - photos of the plant functioning
- King Kong: Kong Tak-yan (江德仁), tycoon in the 1950s-80s and the original developer of Lan Kwai Fong
- Three of Hong Kong's oldest restaurants, Part One - Tai Ping Koon
- Beer in Hong Kong - Part Seven - Carlsberg brewery, Tai Po - opened 1981
- Yakult (益力多): 50 Years in Hong Kong
- Dairy Farm Company - A timeline
- Alfred Herbert Rennie - biography, the Hongkong Milling Company and his suicide
- Lard Factories in HK - nauseating stench RAF Kai Tak 1920s
- A Slice of Heaven – the story of On Lok Yuen (安樂園), Pioneering Ice Cream, Biscuit and Confectionary Manufacturer and Restaurant Chain
- Three of Hong Kong's oldest restaurants, Part Two - Forum
- Maui-Kong Ve-Pein (妙供味本廠) – Pioneer of the HK Gourmet Powder Industry
- Pak Kut Noodle (百吉麵)
- The King of Watchbands: Poon Yuen-sang (潘遠生) and Yuen Sang Hardware (遠生金屬)
- Rose, Downs and Thompson - Engineers, Hull and London, branch offices opened in Shanghai and Hong Kong in 1910s
- Goodyear (嘉年): The Rise and Fall of a Real Estate Giant
- Proposed Peak Tramway extension to Queen's Road - interviews with Colony's leading residents
- Red Capitalist: the life and ventures of K.C. Wong (王寬誠,1907-1986)
- Kai Tack Motor Bus Company
- Bakilly – the forgotten maker of perfumes, hair cream, toothpaste and other personal care products
- William MacGregor Smith (Wahee, Smith & Co.) c1831- c1907
- Makers of Preserved Fruits – Wong Wing Kee, Lee Wah Mui, Hing Ah, Lee Sin Kee, Heung Fat Wai Kee, Yam Hop Hing and Koon Wah
- The Kam Family of Hocan and Jardines
- Hong Kong Rubber Manufactory Ltd, newspaper article 1936
- Asia Provisions (亞洲辦館) and Asia Cold Storage (亞洲凍房)
- Chang Don Chien 張敦潛, chief engineer South China Iron Works, 1948-1968
- Bernard Van Zuiden (萬瑞庭, 1899-1979) – Dutch Trader and Philanthropist in Hong Kong
- CLP - Hok Un (Yuen) Power Station 1921-1991 - updated
- China Engineers Ltd 1928 Shanghai - 1937 Hong Kong
- Barbara Fok (霍畹蘭) and August Moon Hotel (中秋月酒店)
- Alfred Herbert Rennie
- Continental Rubber Manufacturing Company Ltd
- Po Chai Lemonin (普濟檸檬精)
- The Kennedy Town Slaughterhouses - initial notes
- The Construction of Western Market (North Block), 1902-1906
- Lok On Pai 'desalting' plant - as Transshipment Centre used by the PAA - photo
- Wo Fat Hing Distillery, Lung Wo village...Part Two - photos of the plant functioning
- Chuen Sun Knitting Factory
- Industrial accidents in HK - 500 people killed since 1999
- Japanese Radar Station On Tai Mo Shan
- Pokfulam Dairy Farm
- Mystery buildings at Lo So Shing beach, Lamma Island
- Ping Shan Enterprise Co Ltd, disused factory, Yuen Long
- The construction of the HSBC building in Hong Kong
- The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company Ltd ., building residential quarters for over 1,000 coolies and foremen, 1939
- Wong Nai Chung Reservoir
- Hong Kong - China Concrete Company Ltd, recent Yau Tong plant field visit photos
- Shanghainese Builders in Hong Kong (Part One) – the Pre-War Pioneers (Yaik Sang, Sung Kee Zee and Dao Kee)
- International Industrial Building (國際工業大廈) in Kwun Tong
- Hong Kong Brewers and Distillers -The Opening of the Sham Tseng Brewery
- The Hongkong Engineering & Construction Company Ltd 1922-1993
- The Hongkong Milling Company (Rennie's Mill)
- The construction of the Tsing Ma Bridge, 1992-1997
- The King of Watchbands: Poon Yuen-sang (潘遠生) and Yuen Sang Hardware (遠生金屬)
- Rose, Downs and Thompson - Engineers, Hull and London, branch offices opened in Shanghai and Hong Kong in 1910s
- Red Capitalist: the life and ventures of K.C. Wong (王寬誠,1907-1986)
- Bakilly – the forgotten maker of perfumes, hair cream, toothpaste and other personal care products
- Makers of Preserved Fruits – Wong Wing Kee, Lee Wah Mui, Hing Ah, Lee Sin Kee, Heung Fat Wai Kee, Yam Hop Hing and Koon Wah
- Hong Kong Rubber Manufactory Ltd, newspaper article 1936
- Chang Don Chien 張敦潛, chief engineer South China Iron Works, 1948-1968
- China Engineers Ltd 1928 Shanghai - 1937 Hong Kong
- Alfred Herbert Rennie
- Continental Rubber Manufacturing Company Ltd
- Po Chai Lemonin (普濟檸檬精)
- Keeping Warm - Nam Wah Industrial (南華實業), maker of polyester blankets and thermal carriers
- Once Upon A Time in Mongkok: Chow Ngai Hing Knitting Factory
- Hong Kong Rope Manufacturing Company build new factory in Singapore
- Lime-making on Tsing Yi island - 1984 RASHKB article
- R.P. de La Sala – the Global Shipping and Industrial Magnate from HK
- Cotton Padded Quilt masters and Shops, New Territories
- United Rubber Works (聯合膠廠)
- Universal Dockyard Ltd, Yau Tong
- Fung Yuen-hon (馮元侃) and Wai Yuen Cheong (惠元昌)
- The King of Watchbands: Poon Yuen-sang (潘遠生) and Yuen Sang Hardware (遠生金屬)
- Rose, Downs and Thompson - Engineers, Hull and London, branch offices opened in Shanghai and Hong Kong in 1910s
- Red Capitalist: the life and ventures of K.C. Wong (王寬誠,1907-1986)
- Makers of Preserved Fruits – Wong Wing Kee, Lee Wah Mui, Hing Ah, Lee Sin Kee, Heung Fat Wai Kee, Yam Hop Hing and Koon Wah
- The Kam Family of Hocan and Jardines
- Bernard Van Zuiden (萬瑞庭, 1899-1979) – Dutch Trader and Philanthropist in Hong Kong
- Imperial Airways - including first scheduled flight into Hong Kong 1936
- Once Upon A Time in Mongkok: Chow Ngai Hing Knitting Factory
- Hong Kong Rope Manufacturing Company build new factory in Singapore
- R.P. de La Sala – the Global Shipping and Industrial Magnate from HK
- Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice 1861-1924, obituary
- Ng Yue-kwong (吳裕光, 1902-1977) and Ng Yee Hing Weaving & Dyeing Factory (吳義興織印染製衣廠)
- Wan Tat-ming (溫達明) and Ling Nam Weaving (嶺南布廠)
- Vianini Lavori SpA - general contractor High Island Reservoir
- King Kong: Kong Tak-yan (江德仁), tycoon in the 1950s-80s and the original developer of Lan Kwai Fong
- Samuel Gee Yen (嚴欣淇) and East Sun Textile(怡生紗廠)
- The Van Family from Cambodia and the Bonsun Group of companies (萬象)
- Ma On Shan Mine – Part One, The Open Cut Years
- Y.C. Hu and L.S. Ku - directors of Pao Hsing Cotton Mill
- Three of Hong Kong's oldest restaurants, Part One - Tai Ping Koon
- The King of Watchbands: Poon Yuen-sang (潘遠生) and Yuen Sang Hardware (遠生金屬)
- Goodyear (嘉年): The Rise and Fall of a Real Estate Giant
- Proposed Peak Tramway extension to Queen's Road - interviews with Colony's leading residents
- Red Capitalist: the life and ventures of K.C. Wong (王寬誠,1907-1986)
- William MacGregor Smith (Wahee, Smith & Co.) c1831- c1907
- Makers of Preserved Fruits – Wong Wing Kee, Lee Wah Mui, Hing Ah, Lee Sin Kee, Heung Fat Wai Kee, Yam Hop Hing and Koon Wah
- The Kam Family of Hocan and Jardines
- Chang Don Chien 張敦潛, chief engineer South China Iron Works, 1948-1968
- Bernard Van Zuiden (萬瑞庭, 1899-1979) – Dutch Trader and Philanthropist in Hong Kong
- Barbara Fok (霍畹蘭) and August Moon Hotel (中秋月酒店)
- Alfred Herbert Rennie
- Po Chai Lemonin (普濟檸檬精)
- Lin Ma Hang Mine Part 2 – The Yung Years
- Once Upon A Time in Mongkok: Chow Ngai Hing Knitting Factory
- R.P. de La Sala – the Global Shipping and Industrial Magnate from HK
- United Rubber Works (聯合膠廠)
- Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice 1861-1924, obituary
- Fung Yuen-hon (馮元侃) and Wai Yuen Cheong (惠元昌)
- Ng Yue-kwong (吳裕光, 1902-1977) and Ng Yee Hing Weaving & Dyeing Factory (吳義興織印染製衣廠)
- Wan Tat-ming (溫達明) and Ling Nam Weaving (嶺南布廠)
- 60 Hip Shing Timber Company, information requested
- 59 The East Asiatic Company Ltd in Hong Kong - information requested
- 58 Information needed about a Leading Hong Kong Dressmaker, Lily Nègre, 1920s
- 57 Kwong Sang Hong Ltd warehouse, 192 Hennessy Road
- 56 Dairy Farm Company - do the small concrete dams built in the 1930s still exist?
- 55 Pacific Islands Shipbuilding Company - information wanted
- 54 Nam Wah, Hong Kong ginger company - information needed
- 53 Eye Baths/Cups - manufactured in Hong Kong?
- 52 Stink Boats - used in the removal of nightsoil from Hong Kong island in the 1960s and 70s
- 51 D. & M. Rustomjee, trading firm in Canton and Hong Kong
- 50 R.H. Kotewall & Co
- 49 Boyd, Kaye & Company
- 48 T.O.Morgan, Director of Water Supplies - imagined Plover Cove Reservoir while swimming in the area
- 47 Wyler Textiles Ltd
- 46 Reiss & Bradley Group of Companies
- 45 Proposed fixed crossing to Lantau Island, late 1970s
- 44 Tsing Yi Island Industries Ltd, concrete products manufacturer
- 43 Sung Hill Quarry, Kowloon - where and when?
- 42 Did Japanese company Mitsui Bussan Kaishu Ltd take over control of Taikoo Docks in October 1942?
- 41 Leather Works No.1 BAAG Report WW2
- Bernard Van Zuiden (萬瑞庭, 1899-1979) – Dutch Trader and Philanthropist in Hong Kong
- The Tam Brothers behind Wai Yee Co, King’s Shirts and Yau Sun Shoes
- Big and Tall from Nanking Rd to Nathan Rd: Jefferson Young (楊撫生) of Crane (鶴鳴), Chancellor (大人), Da Da (大大) and the rise and fall of his retail empire
- Hong Kong Jade Industry and some of its pioneers
- Sanda Shoes (山打皮鞋) and Manning Shirt (萬寧恤)
- Alhambra Watch (平安表行)
- Charles Herbert Arnhold, Arnhold & Company Ltd
- The Commercial Press (HK) Ltd
- Augustine Heard & Company, major American 19th century China trading house with its headquarters in Hong Kong from 1856
- J. Ullmann (烏利文) – Swiss Watchmaker and Jeweler in HK and China
- Tattooing in Hong Kong
- Demise of the 79 year old neon lights of Tai Tung Bakery, Yuen Long, Hong Kong
- Lee Ka Yuen Emporium (李家園百貨)
- Foo Hang, Tai Hang, Lee Heng and B. Green– Four Leaders of the HK Diamonds Industry
- From Ships in Cheung Sha Wan to Shoes in Sham Shui Po – the Chan family, Wing On Shing Shipyard and Po Shing Shoe Company
- Neon Lights in Hong Kong nostalgia - recent exhibition
- A.S. Watson & Company celebrate 100th anniversary
- There was something about "Hong Kong Old Mary" – A Transpacific Fortune Built on Trust
- Sennet Freres
- Shantung Guild (山東庄): Yee Tai Hong, Shun Tai Hong and Lee Yuen Cheung
- Japanese suicide boats - end of occupation, WW2, possibly related BAAG reports
- Impact of Typhoon Wanda on shipping in Tolo Harbour
- R.P. de La Sala – the Global Shipping and Industrial Magnate from HK
- Ulderup and Schlüter Shipyard, Sham Shui Po c1900-1914
- Universal Dockyard Ltd, Yau Tong
- The Camber Shipyard at Wellington Barracks during the Japanese Occupation 1942-1945
- Chutsing, Sailmaker, Endicott's Bazaar, 1864
- Thomas Selby - service on various Indo-China Steam Navigation Co. Ltd ships
- The Hongkong and Yaumati Ferry Company Ltd, 1923-1973
- Kung Lee Steam Ship Company Ltd - Harry Long's personal experience
- George Underhill Sands (1824-1881?) - connection to three HK companies
- Aberdeen Docks - 1874 Typhoon damage
- BAAG Naval Section Intelligence Summary, late February to mid March 1943, ship repair, maintenance and movements
- Tathong Lighthouse - during and post-WW2
- Shell Oil tankers built by Hong Kong & Whampoa Dockyard
- The British Borneo Timber Company - Taikoo Dockyard locomotive connection
- Chinese Airline buys Bailey's Shipyard - a hotbed of political strife 1949-1955
- Ship Repairers & Shipbuilders (HK) Ltd, (subsidiary of HUD), 1978
- Jebshun Shipping (捷順船務)
- Harry Long - employment with Kung Lee Steamship Co and HK and Yaumatei Ferry Co
- Asia International Electronics Ltd (亞洲無線電工廠)
- Wader Film Studio (華達製片廠)
- The Inventions and Ventures of HK Tech Pioneer Prof. S.C. Loh (樂秀章)
- The Development of Telephone Communication in China, Part Two
- The Development of Telephone Communication in China, Part One
- History of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Development in Hong Kong, Part Three 1971-1983
- History of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Development in Hong Kong, Part Two 1938-1970
- History of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Development in Hong Kong, Part One 1871-1931
- Behind the Shades: David Miao (繆德維 1912-2006) – the low-profile partner of George Ho behind many high-profile products (Minolta cameras and copiers, Philips radios …) and services (Commercial Radio, ABC Paging) in HK
- Conic (康力)- HK Electronics Giant of the late 1970s, early 1980s
- Proposed world-wide radio-telephonic system for Hong Kong, newspaper article 1938
- The Hongkong Telephone Company, 1925 to 1933, Far Eastern Review article
- Wah Mei Electric (華美電器行) – Leading Distributor of Electronics from the 1920s to 1960s and related firms
- The Numerical Control Engineering Company Ltd
- Telegraph Bay, HK Island - location of the first submarine telegraphic cable into Hong Kong, 1871
- Rickshaw Makers’ Stores
- Mui Wo salt pans, Lantau Island
- Stone breaking in Hong Kong - two further images
- Lime-making on Tsing Yi island - 1984 RASHKB article
- Cotton Padded Quilt masters and Shops, New Territories
- Lockhart Report 1898 - NT - agriculture, indigo, hemp, cotton (Causeway Bay cotton mill)
- Wo Fat Hing Distillery, Lung Wo village...Part Two - photos of the plant functioning
- Bamboo Scaffolding - Dan Waters' photo gallery
- Leung Kit Lam's steelware store, Shanghai Street
- Peng Chau Island industry
- The locations of Lime Kilns in Hong Kong - a list
- Hong Kong Water Supply - Irrigation Reservoirs
- Ho Hung Yee - umbrella maker and repairer for 70 years, Peel Street, Central
- Quarrying and transportation of stone in Hong Kong, 1841
- Night soil collection in Hong Kong - updated - four current locations, July 2016
- The Fresh Water Fish Farming Industry of the New Territories
- Leung So Kee - umbrella manufacturer
- Rope-making and Dyeing/Calendering on Ap Lei Chau Island. 1971 RASHKB article
- Neon Light makers - a vanishing trade
- Pearl Oysters at Mirs Bay (Pearl Pool), Tai Po Sea, during the Five Dynasties - details of overland route to Tuen Mun
