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The 20 most recent posts from every category.
Articles
- The Hongkong Rope Manufacturing Co., Ltd - images from c1908
- Mapping Hong Kong Part 4 - 1866 Map of San On District
- Lam Tei Quarry - Ping Shan Airport , RAF Technical Magazine Report, May 1946
- Douglas Lapraik - further information
- BAAG Report KWIZ #84 Naval Reports - information about Naval, Taikoo, Tung Tai, Ah Kings and Tsunan dockyards
- Wm Dolan, Sailmaker, Duddell Street, 1868
- The Hongkong Milling Company (Rennie's Mill)
- Wan Tat-ming (溫達明) and Ling Nam Weaving (嶺南布廠)
- Ching Loong Bakery (正隆餅家) 1889 - 1963
- Lynhall Land Investment (聯合置業) – Real Estate Powerhouse from the late 1950s and early 1960s
- Queries & Answers 61 Fook Wah Ma-Jong & Ivory Manufactory
- The construction of the Tsing Ma Bridge, 1992-1997
- Scotch derricks - their use in Hong Kong construction projects
- Ngai Sang Knitting (藝生織造廠)
- Ship Repairers & Shipbuilders (HK) Ltd, (subsidiary of HUD), 1978
- WW2 Poultry Farms during the Japanese occupation
- The demise of the historic liner Queen Elizabeth in Hong Kong harbour
- Hong Kong Water Supply - Mint Dam and Other Early Structures
- The Fresh Water Fish Farming Industry of the New Territories
- Evergreen Plastic & Industrial Co (異奇塑膠實業)
Banks and Finance
- Ying Ngan-ting (應雁亭, 1909-1972): Gold Magnate and Umbrella Manufacturer
- Fourseas Bowling Centre and Whimsy
- Fast Eddie: the rise and fall of Eddie Wong (王永祥), international tycoon of mystery and original developer of Discovery Bay
- Kar Cheung Chong Bank (嘉彰莊銀行)
- Continental King Lung (五洲景龍) and Legarleon (利家安)
- Yau Yue Commercial Bank (有餘商業銀行)
- C.F. Leung, Ng Iu-cheung and L.S. Chang – Directors of Kwong On Bank
- Pak Wo Cheung (百和祥) and Secure Industries (保美實業)
- Wo Kee Cheung (和記祥) and Wo Fung Cheung (和豐祥)
- The Tsang Family of Sui Heong Yuen (瑞香園)
- Trailblazer: the life and time of Wang Tseng-hsiang (王增祥, 1926-2012), Taiwanese developer and investor in HK, Japan and the US
- Chan Chart-man (陳策文) – Developer and King of Pawnshops
- Tai Shing (泰盛): the Heung family’s eight decades journey from Canton to HK and from Weaving and Dyeing to Properties and Stocks
- Peter Kingson Kwok (郭幼廷,1883-1953): Metal Trader and Founding Director of Bank of East Asia and his Family
Construction
- Lam Tei Quarry - Ping Shan Airport , RAF Technical Magazine Report, May 1946
- The construction of the Tsing Ma Bridge, 1992-1997
- Scotch derricks - their use in Hong Kong construction projects
- The Seawise Giant, the longest, heaviest, ship ever built - Hong Kong connection
- Hong Kong - The First Construction Boom
- Shek Pik Reservoir - Construction
- Connecting HK Island to Kowloon 1961 report proposing a bridge or tunnel?
- Hong Kong Water Supply Shek Pik Reservoir – Part 2 Reservoir Construction
- Hong Kong Water Supply – Shek Lei Pui and Kowloon Byewash Reservoir
- North West Water Supply Scheme
- Preece, Cardew and Rider - Consulting Engineers for Hok Un power station
- Cheung Sha Wan Factory Estate
- Hong Kong Water Supply - Irrigation Reservoirs
- Lap Shun – the Fallen Knitwear Giant
- The Cross-Harbour Tunnel – Part 2 Construction
- Kai Tak Part 6 – New Airport Construction
- The Kowloon-Canton Railway (British Section) Part 3 – the construction of Kowloon Station
- Pokfulam Reservoir - structures and declared monuments
- The Aerial Ropeway (1891-1932) and Sanitarium (1893-1932) of the Taikoo Sugar Refinery
- American Marine Ltd Boatyard, December 1963 and recent developments at Hang Hau, Junk Bay
Entertainment
- Jimmy Heung dies - Win's Entertainment film studio
- Tattooing in Hong Kong
- Phonographs, Gramophones and Record Companies in Hong Kong
- Rediffusion in Hong Kong
- Fourseas Bowling Centre and Whimsy
- Hit Maker: Yam Wu-fa (任護花) and his Novels, Newspapers and Movies
- Evergreen Motion Picture (永茂電影企業)
- Crown, Fung Hang and Wing Hang – Three Leading Independent Record Companies and the Golden Age of Cantopop in the 1970s and 1980s
- The Kwan Family – Theatre Owners and Movie Producers
- The Cheung family and the New York/Great World chain of cinemas
- Lee Wui-tao (李會桃): Textbook and Tabloid Publisher and Movie Producer
- Ng Lian-chin (黃連振, 1922-2015) and Life Records (麗風唱片)
- Wo Shing Company (和聲唱片): Leading Record Label from the 1930s to 1960s
- Yau Luen Investment Co (友聯置業) and its Directors Henry Hsu and Lui Tak-wah
- Tsang Fook Piano (曾福琴行): A Century of Music in Hong Kong
- King of Entertainment: Wong Kow (黃球) and his Mayflower (五月花) group of restaurants and nightclubs
- Filmo Depot (菲林模影機)
- Yung Hwa Motion Film Industries, newspaper article 1948
- Oceania Hawaii Holdings (夏香集團)
- The condition of Hong Kong dockyards immediately post WW2, newspaper report October 1945
Fishing and Agriculture
- WW2 Poultry Farms during the Japanese occupation
- The Fresh Water Fish Farming Industry of the New Territories
- Hong Kong Water Supply - Irrigation Reservoirs
- 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
- Unsung Kingmakers – the low-key Song Brothers who conquered the Shanghai Bund and Victoria Harbor and backed the development of several key industries in post-War Hong Kong
- The Hong Kong sugarcane industry, 1934
- RAF Shatin Airfield, rice production in the Shatin valley in the 1950s
- The declining oyster trade of Lau Fau Shan - HKU project to revive the 700 year old industry
- Oyster Beds of the Wang Chau area, Yuen Long
- Rose, Downs and Thompson - Engineers, Hull and London, branch offices opened in Shanghai and Hong Kong in 1910s
- Southeast Ice Company (東南冰廠)
- Cheng Cheung Hing Shrimp Paste Factory, Tai O
- Yau Ma Tei Wholesale Fruit Market - built 1913
Food and Beverages
- The Hongkong Milling Company (Rennie's Mill)
- Ching Loong Bakery (正隆餅家) 1889 - 1963
- WW2 Poultry Farms during the Japanese occupation
- Ding-Tin Wong (黃丁田) and Tin Kee Noodle Products (田記製麵食品廠)
- Yakult (益力多): 50 Years in Hong Kong
- King of Kings (皇上皇) – Ice Cream and Dried Sausages
- The “Five Treasures” of the HK Sauce Industry
- Lady Southorn's hop shovel - Hongkong Brewers & Distillers 1934 - new images
- Hongkong Food Products Manufacturing
- Kowloon Flour Mills (九龍麵粉廠)
- Nam Wah preserved ginger manufacturer - Sham Shui Po
- Shatin Airfield 1949-1962
- Connaught Aerated Water Co (安樂汽水)
- Taikoo Sugar Refinery, further information
- Cheung Ka Chai Medicinal Wine (張家濟酒廠)
- The Vitasoy Story
- Gande, Price & Company Ltd - Hong Kong agents and wine and spirits merchants
- Hap Wah dai pai dong, Tai Po, closes after 29 years - a vanishing species
- Ching Yuen Bean Curd Factory explosion
- Finland, London and Swiss - 3 Ice Cream Brands from the 1960s
General
- Mapping Of Hong Kong Part 3 – 1845 The Collinson Map
- The construction of the Tsing Ma Bridge, 1992-1997
- Scotch derricks - their use in Hong Kong construction projects
- Tang Lung Chau Lighthouse
- Mapping Hong Kong Part 1 – Where Are We?
- The Seawise Giant, the longest, heaviest, ship ever built - Hong Kong connection
- Charles Herbert Arnhold, Arnhold & Company Ltd
- King of Kings (皇上皇) – Ice Cream and Dried Sausages
- George Benjamin Dodwell, 1851-1925, Prominent Hong Kong merchant and shipowner
- The Commercial Press (HK) Ltd
- J S Hook, Son & Company, shipping and commission agents, 1867
- The demise of payphones in the MTR (and elsewhere) - the writing is literally on the wall
- Orient Tobacco Manufactory - photographs inside the factory
- Annam Pak Kwei Yeow (安南白桂油)
- Preece, Cardew and Rider - Consulting Engineers for Hok Un power station
- Dredging Marine Sand - Container Terminal 6, 1987 article
- Wilks & Jack Ltd - early 20th century Engineers and ship designers
- The 'Vital Spark' - last steam powered vessel to be licenced by the HK Marine Department 1988
- Gande, Price & Company Ltd - Hong Kong agents and wine and spirits merchants
- The film The Sand Pebbles - replica of the USS San Pablo built at Vaughan & Yung Engineering Co Ltd
Hong Kong Companies
- The Hongkong Rope Manufacturing Co., Ltd - images from c1908
- Douglas Lapraik - further information
- Wm Dolan, Sailmaker, Duddell Street, 1868
- The Hongkong Milling Company (Rennie's Mill)
- Wan Tat-ming (溫達明) and Ling Nam Weaving (嶺南布廠)
- Ching Loong Bakery (正隆餅家) 1889 - 1963
- Lynhall Land Investment (聯合置業) – Real Estate Powerhouse from the late 1950s and early 1960s
- Ngai Sang Knitting (藝生織造廠)
- Ship Repairers & Shipbuilders (HK) Ltd, (subsidiary of HUD), 1978
- WW2 Poultry Farms during the Japanese occupation
- Evergreen Plastic & Industrial Co (異奇塑膠實業)
- Tai Koo Dockyard
- Leung So Kee - umbrella manufacturer
- Ding-Tin Wong (黃丁田) and Tin Kee Noodle Products (田記製麵食品廠)
- Lok On Pai "desalting" plant, 1975-1981 - mystery of non-demolition of main building
- Hong Kong Air International Ltd - helicopter services - mid 1970s magazine article
- Town Island (伙頭墳洲) - CLP Renewable Energy Supply Project
- Hongkong Lightering and Storage Company, 1867
- Noel Croucher - philanthropist and director of Green Island Cement and Hong Kong and China Gas
- Tracing Roots: Joseph Yen (嚴錫榮), post-war chairman of Marsman HK China and the father in the book Falling Leaves
Industrial Buildings + Demolitions
- The Hongkong Milling Company (Rennie's Mill)
- The construction of the Tsing Ma Bridge, 1992-1997
- Scotch derricks - their use in Hong Kong construction projects
- Tang Lung Chau Lighthouse
- Kin Yick Liong (建益隆) – Real Estate Developer from the 1960s
- Preece, Cardew and Rider - Consulting Engineers for Hok Un power station
- Cheung Sha Wan Factory Estate
- Mayar Silk Mills (HK) Ltd, Tsuen Wan - company compound derelict for many years
- The Kings of Industrial Buildings – the Chung brothers of E.Wah Aik San
- Swire Duro Ltd - paint manufacturer
- The Aerial Ropeway (1891-1932) and Sanitarium (1893-1932) of the Taikoo Sugar Refinery
- Dairy Farm, Pokfulam, remains of buildings and structures
- Industrial districts - Yau Tong
- Kennedy Town - Demolition of Incineration Plant and Abattoir 2007-2009
- The Smithfield slaughterhouse, Kennedy Town - photos from 1894
- Amoycan Industrial Centre - Kowloon Bay - connection to Amoy Canning? - major fire June 2016
- Nan Fung Textiles - founded 1954 - mill to be re-used
- Hong Kong Water Supply – Kowloon Peninsula
- The E. On factory building, Aberdeen - celebrating the ordinary
- Orient Tobacco Manufactory - HK factory location, map and plan of works layout
Industrial Districts + Locations
- Hong Kong Water Supply - Mint Dam and Other Early Structures
- The Fresh Water Fish Farming Industry of the New Territories
- Town Island (伙頭墳洲) - CLP Renewable Energy Supply Project
- Rope-making and Dyeing/Calendering on Ap Lei Chau Island. 1971 RASHKB article
- An Aeroplane Called Wanda - historic flight over Shatin March 18th, 1911.
- Collection and export of metals, vehicles, machinery etc during the Japanese occupation, WW2, Part One 1942-1943
- Industrial districts - North Point - aerial image 1948
- Water supply for boats, Lai Chi Kok, early 20th century
- Nui Po Shan (Turret Hill) Quarry, Shatin
- High Island Reservoir
- Hong Kong Water Supply - Irrigation Reservoirs
- Lei Yue Mun Quarry - contemporary photographs
- Plover Cove Reservoir - photographs of official opening 1969
- Lok On Pai "desalting" plant, 1975-1981
- Mui Wo Silver Mine - 1905 newspaper article
- Chinese Manufacturers' Association Trade Exhibitions
- The Kowloon-Canton Railway (British Section) Part 3 – the construction of Kowloon Station
- Town Gas gasometer, Aberdeen - made and erected in 1981 through the collaboration of HUD and S Cutler & Sons, Telford, UK
- Shatin Airfield - 1954 article about British Army/RAF use
- Ma On Shan Iron Mine - SCMP article, nearby miner's village, three buildings restored
Manufacturing
- The Hongkong Rope Manufacturing Co., Ltd - images from c1908
- The Hongkong Milling Company (Rennie's Mill)
- Wan Tat-ming (溫達明) and Ling Nam Weaving (嶺南布廠)
- Ching Loong Bakery (正隆餅家) 1889 - 1963
- Ngai Sang Knitting (藝生織造廠)
- Evergreen Plastic & Industrial Co (異奇塑膠實業)
- Tai Koo Dockyard
- Ding-Tin Wong (黃丁田) and Tin Kee Noodle Products (田記製麵食品廠)
- Charles Herbert Arnhold, Arnhold & Company Ltd
- The Hongkong Pipe, Brick and Tile Works, 1896-1928
- Rope-making and Dyeing/Calendering on Ap Lei Chau Island. 1971 RASHKB article
- Ting Fung Iron Works (鼎豐鐵工廠)
- Alfred Nobel 1833-1896 (British Dynamite Company - Magazine Island Hong Kong)
- Yakult (益力多): 50 Years in Hong Kong
- Hong Kong Knitters - founded 1955
- Hong Kong Tube and Metal Company, Peng Chau Island - 1960s
- China Can Company (HK) Ltd - mechanical toys / lithographed cans
- Glory Metal Works (光榮五金製品廠)
- Green Island Cement Company - stunning photos
- Lady Southorn's hop shovel - Hongkong Brewers & Distillers 1934 - new images
Mines, Quarries + Dredging
- Lam Tei Quarry - Ping Shan Airport , RAF Technical Magazine Report, May 1946
- Tracing Roots: Joseph Yen (嚴錫榮), post-war chairman of Marsman HK China and the father in the book Falling Leaves
- Why "Lead Mine" Pass - Location
- Collection and export of metals, vehicles, machinery etc during the Japanese occupation, WW2, Part One 1942-1943
- Nui Po Shan (Turret Hill) Quarry, Shatin
- Jan Hendrik Marsman 1892-1956, connection to Needle Hill Tungsten Mine
- Lei Yue Mun Quarry - contemporary photographs
- Mui Wo Silver Mine - 1905 newspaper article
- West Brother Island Graphite Mine - Geological Society of HK Field Trip, 1992
- Nga Ying Kok – Potential Iron Ore Mine, Lantau Island
- Manganese mining on Lamma Island
- Ma On Shan Iron Mine - SCMP article, nearby miner's village, three buildings restored
- Lin Ma Hang Mine Part 4 – Decline and Closure
- West Brother Graphite Mine
- Lin Ma Hang Mine Part 2 – The Yung Years
- Lin Ma Hang Mine Part 3 – Exploitation
- Mui Wo Silver Mine Processing Plant
- Gin Drinkers' Bay in 1936, mention of a mining concern and Texas Company (China) Ltd
- Quarrying in Hong Kong - rehabilitation of Anderson Road, Shek O, Lam Tei and Sok Kwu Wan
- Tin Mine at Tai Tong (Mining Licence No 13)
Non-Hong Kong Companies
- Wan Tat-ming (溫達明) and Ling Nam Weaving (嶺南布廠)
- The demise of the historic liner Queen Elizabeth in Hong Kong harbour
- Charles Herbert Arnhold, Arnhold & Company Ltd
- Rosalind Henwood of Flying Cargo – Pioneer of the Air Freight Industry in Hong Kong
- Charles de Ricou - founder of The Macau Aerial Transport Company - biography
- Alfred Nobel 1833-1896 (British Dynamite Company - Magazine Island Hong Kong)
- Yakult (益力多): 50 Years in Hong Kong
- King of Kings (皇上皇) – Ice Cream and Dried Sausages
- Glory Metal Works (光榮五金製品廠)
- George Benjamin Dodwell, 1851-1925, Prominent Hong Kong merchant and shipowner
- Pao Hsing Cotton Mill (寶星紡織廠)
- Reiss Bradley (泰和洋行) – the Forgotten Hong
- Kowloon Flour Mills (九龍麵粉廠)
- Bullivant & Co, Millwall London, supplier of Taikoo Sugar Refinery's aerial ropeway cables
- Jan Hendrik Marsman 1892-1956, connection to Needle Hill Tungsten Mine
- Preece, Cardew and Rider - Consulting Engineers for Hok Un power station
- Augustine Heard & Company, major American 19th century China trading house with its headquarters in Hong Kong from 1856
- Schmidt & Co. (Hong Kong) Ltd
- John Laird Wright - MacDonald & Co Shipyard, HK and Green Island Cement, Macau
- A R Marty et Cie, Hong Kong trading house, established 1874 and Marty et d’Abbadie, Haiphong, Indochina
People
- Douglas Lapraik - further information
- Wan Tat-ming (溫達明) and Ling Nam Weaving (嶺南布廠)
- Ching Loong Bakery (正隆餅家) 1889 - 1963
- Lynhall Land Investment (聯合置業) – Real Estate Powerhouse from the late 1950s and early 1960s
- Evergreen Plastic & Industrial Co (異奇塑膠實業)
- Noel Croucher - philanthropist and director of Green Island Cement and Hong Kong and China Gas
- Tracing Roots: Joseph Yen (嚴錫榮), post-war chairman of Marsman HK China and the father in the book Falling Leaves
- Rosalind Henwood of Flying Cargo – Pioneer of the Air Freight Industry in Hong Kong
- Charles de Ricou - founder of The Macau Aerial Transport Company - biography
- Ting Fung Iron Works (鼎豐鐵工廠)
- Alfred Nobel 1833-1896 (British Dynamite Company - Magazine Island Hong Kong)
- George Benjamin Dodwell, 1851-1925, Prominent Hong Kong merchant and shipowner
- The “Five Treasures” of the HK Sauce Industry
- Kowloon Flour Mills (九龍麵粉廠)
- Neon Light makers - a vanishing trade
- Jan Hendrik Marsman 1892-1956, connection to Needle Hill Tungsten Mine
- From Bicycles to Lamps and Stoves: Union Metal Works (合衆五金廠) and the two illustrious families behind the firm
- Augustine Heard & Company, major American 19th century China trading house with its headquarters in Hong Kong from 1856
- John MacNeile Price, Surveyor General of Hong Kong, the Tai Tam reservoirs
- Abdoolally Ebrahim & Co (HK), Ltd. - founded in 1842
Property
- Lynhall Land Investment (聯合置業) – Real Estate Powerhouse from the late 1950s and early 1960s
- Kin Yick Liong (建益隆) – Real Estate Developer from the 1960s
- Edward T.T. Chan (陳德泰, 1918-1981) and Tai Cheung - HK Real Estate Pioneer
- The Kings of Industrial Buildings – the Chung brothers of E.Wah Aik San
- Hongkong Land Ltd: The Growth of a Giant
- Siu On Realty (兆安地產)
- Fast Eddie: the rise and fall of Eddie Wong (王永祥), international tycoon of mystery and original developer of Discovery Bay
- Cheong Sun Development (昌生興業) and the Trio Behind the Firm
- The Cheung family and the New York/Great World chain of cinemas
- Hop Yuen Construction (合源建築): A Century of Building in HK
- Yau Luen Investment Co (友聯置業) and its Directors Henry Hsu and Lui Tak-wah
- Sun Hing Building (新興大廈) and its Developers
- Continental King Lung (五洲景龍) and Legarleon (利家安)
- Yau Yue Commercial Bank (有餘商業銀行)
- C.F. Leung, Ng Iu-cheung and L.S. Chang – Directors of Kwong On Bank
- Pak Wo Cheung (百和祥) and Secure Industries (保美實業)
- Wo Kee Cheung (和記祥) and Wo Fung Cheung (和豐祥)
- Fu Fai Enterprises (富輝企業)
- Trailblazer: the life and time of Wang Tseng-hsiang (王增祥, 1926-2012), Taiwanese developer and investor in HK, Japan and the US
- Howah, Blue Heaven and BG: three key players in the post-war HK lighting industry
Queries + Answers
- 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
Real Estate
- Lee Shiu-kee (李兆基) of Kee Lee Co Ltd(基利有限公司)
- Pokfulam Development Co Ltd (博富臨置業)
- Siu On Realty (兆安地產)
- Fast Eddie: the rise and fall of Eddie Wong (王永祥), international tycoon of mystery and original developer of Discovery Bay
- Chinachem – Collection of Early Advertisements
- From Metals Trading to Real Estate: the Lau Family of Pak Hing Loong (百興隆)
- Wah Ying Cheong (華英昌): from Gold Mountain Firm to Real Estate Empire
Retailers
- 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
- Sanda Shoes (山打皮鞋) and Manning Shirt (萬寧恤)
- 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
- From Thompson Wong (堂煌廣告) to FCB (博達廣告)
- The Chan/Tyson Family and Gande, Price & Co
- Paramount: Ad Agency and Interior Decorator
- Kwong Chan Timber Merchants (廣棧木行)
- Standard, Tai Hing and Tung Shing: Distributors of Japanese Sewing Machines
Shipyards + Shipping
- Douglas Lapraik - further information
- Wm Dolan, Sailmaker, Duddell Street, 1868
- Ship Repairers & Shipbuilders (HK) Ltd, (subsidiary of HUD), 1978
- The demise of the historic liner Queen Elizabeth in Hong Kong harbour
- Tai Koo Dockyard
- Tang Lung Chau Lighthouse
- Hongkong Lightering and Storage Company, 1867
- BAAG records of shipping in HK during 1944-45 - the No.2 Anri Maru, ex-China Navigation Company
- The Seawise Giant, the longest, heaviest, ship ever built - Hong Kong connection
- Ngautaukok Shipyard during the Japanese Occupation, 1942-1945
- Chutsing, Sailmaker, Endicott's Bazaar, 1864
- George Benjamin Dodwell, 1851-1925, Prominent Hong Kong merchant and shipowner
- J S Hook, Son & Company, shipping and commission agents, 1867
- Water supply for boats, Lai Chi Kok, early 20th century
- Tsunan Shipyard during the Japanese Occupation, 1942-1945
- John Laird Wright - MacDonald & Co Shipyard, HK and Green Island Cement, Macau
- Smaller Shipyards in Hong Kong during the Japanese Occupation 1942-1945
- Dredging Marine Sand - Container Terminal 6, 1987 article
- A R Marty et Cie, Hong Kong trading house, established 1874 and Marty et d’Abbadie, Haiphong, Indochina
- A Century of Riding the Waves: the Hsu Family of Eddie Steamship
Telecommunications
- 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
- Asia International Electronics Ltd (亞洲無線電工廠)
- The Numerical Control Engineering Company Ltd
- Telegraph Bay, HK Island - location of the first submarine telegraphic cable into Hong Kong, 1871
Traditional Industries
- 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
- Hong Kong Water Supply - Irrigation Reservoirs
- Pearl Oysters at Mirs Bay (Pearl Pool), Tai Po Sea, during the Five Dynasties - details of overland route to Tuen Mun
- Hap Wah dai pai dong, Tai Po, closes after 29 years - a vanishing species
- Ching Yuen Bean Curd Factory explosion
- The Hong Kong Ivory Industry
- The Incense Tree in Hong Kong - a vanishing species
- Tuck Chong Sum Kee Bamboo Steamer Company - revisited
- Fu Tei Wan Lime Kiln, Tung Chung
- Chan Chi Kee Cutlery, in business since the 1920s, Shanghai Street
- Chinese Preserved Ginger shipped through HK 1913
- The last minibus sign writer in Hong Kong, Mak Kam-sang
- The Hong Kong Rickshaw over Time
- The Needle, the Bible and “Our People”: Chiuchow Christians and the Swatow Lace Industry in Hong Kong
- Tale as old as Wine: the Rise and Fall of Chinese Distilleries in Hong Kong
- Dairy Farm Company, traditional products plus expansion both in Hong Kong and elsewhere
- Choy Fung Ginger Factory
Transport
- Lam Tei Quarry - Ping Shan Airport , RAF Technical Magazine Report, May 1946
- Hong Kong Air International Ltd - helicopter services - mid 1970s magazine article
- Kowloon-Canton (British section) Railway, railway stations in Hong Kong
- Charles Herbert Arnhold, Arnhold & Company Ltd
- Rosalind Henwood of Flying Cargo – Pioneer of the Air Freight Industry in Hong Kong
- Charles de Ricou - founder of The Macau Aerial Transport Company - biography
- The Peak Tram
- West Rail – Part 10 Operations: The Ghost Train
- West Rail – Part 9 Testing and Commissioning
- An Aeroplane Called Wanda - historic flight over Shatin March 18th, 1911.
- Connecting HK Island to Kowloon 1961 report proposing a bridge or tunnel?
- Ping Shan - proposed airport for Hong Kong
- Collection and export of metals, vehicles, machinery etc during the Japanese occupation, WW2, Part One 1942-1943
- Yau Fung Tours and Transportation Company Ltd aka Hong Kong Bus, ex-Manchester, Perth and London buses
- Bullivant & Co, Millwall London, supplier of Taikoo Sugar Refinery's aerial ropeway cables
- Hong Kong Air International Ltd - helicopter services - HK Flying Club article 1974
- Shatin Airfield 1949-1962
- A R Marty et Cie, Hong Kong trading house, established 1874 and Marty et d’Abbadie, Haiphong, Indochina
- West Rail – Part 8 Railway Systems
- West Rail – Part 7 Construction North
Utilities
- Hong Kong Water Supply – Plover Cove Part 1 Scheme Development
- Hong Kong Water Supply - Mint Dam and Other Early Structures
- Lok On Pai "desalting" plant, 1975-1981 - mystery of non-demolition of main building
- Town Island (伙頭墳洲) - CLP Renewable Energy Supply Project
- Charles Herbert Arnhold, Arnhold & Company Ltd
- Hong Kong Water Supply - The Tai Tam Tuk Scheme First Section
- Cheung Chau Electric Company
- Shek Pik Reservoir - Construction
- Hong Kong Water Supply Shek Pik Reservoir – Part 2 Reservoir Construction
- Hong Kong Water Supply – Shek Lei Pui and Kowloon Byewash Reservoir
- The demise of payphones in the MTR (and elsewhere) - the writing is literally on the wall
- Water supply for boats, Lai Chi Kok, early 20th century
- North West Water Supply Scheme
- High Island Reservoir
- Lok On Pai 'desalting' plant - site visit photographs including a great surprise!
- Preece, Cardew and Rider - Consulting Engineers for Hok Un power station
- John MacNeile Price, Surveyor General of Hong Kong, the Tai Tam reservoirs
- Hong Kong Water Supply - Irrigation Reservoirs
- The Norman Electric Light Company - 1886 Hong Kong swindle?
- Hong Kong Water Supply – The 1963 Water Drought