Moving Mountains: the Life and Mines of Ko Ming-fan (高銘勳,1906-2012), proprietor of Flat Hill Quarry (平山石礦) and HK Clays & Kaolin Co

Articles, Mines, Quarries + Dredging
Ko Ming Fan Detail Image 1 York Lo

York Lo: Moving Mountains: the Life and Mines of Ko Ming-fan (高銘勳,1906-2012), proprietor of Flat Hill Quarry (平山石礦) and HK Clays & Kaolin Co Ko Ming-fan visiting mainland China in the 1980s (Courtesy: Bonnie Sellars) The post war construction boom created significant demand for construction materials and unprecedented opportunities for the HK mining industry. One of the handful of tenacious […]

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Francis Richard Marsh – General Manager of the Hong Kong Electric Company 1921-[1929]

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, People, Utilities

HF: “Francis Richard Marsh was born on the 30th August, 1876, and was educated at St. George’s School, Harpenden. [He was the son of Richard Brewster Marsh and Alice Marsh] After receiving his practical training with the Coalbrookdale Co. he was employed for a short time as a draughtsman by Ferranti, Ltd. In 1899 he joined the staff of Preece […]

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Hong Kong Water Supply – Irrigation Reservoirs

Construction, Fishing and Agriculture, Industrial Districts + Locations, Traditional Industries, Utilities
Kwu Tung

Tymon Mellor: Farming in Hong Kong has always been a challenging vocation; small field sizes, labour intensive, often rugged terrain and unpredictable weather. In good times two crops of rice could be grown a year but with erratic rainfall and the expansion of the reservoir catchwaters system, the agricultural community were under pressure. They wanted infrastructure investment to support farming […]

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The Central Mid-level Escalator

Articles, Construction
Central Mid Level Escalator Source Landmark

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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The Chan Family of Sun Wui and the Entertainment Business in HK and Macau

Articles, Entertainment, Hong Kong Companies, Non-Hong Kong Companies, People
The Chan Family Of Sun Wui Detail Image 6 York Lo

York Lo: The Chan Family of Sun Wui and the Entertainment Business in HK and Macau Natives of Sun Wui in Guangdong province, the family of Chan Wai-ting has been involved in the entertainment business in Hong Kong and Macau for close to a century through the operations of at least five movie theaters, the Kai Tak Amusement Park covered […]

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Ping Shan Enterprise Co Ltd, disused factory, Yuen Long

Articles, Fishing and Agriculture, Hong Kong Companies, Industrial Buildings + Demolitions, Manufacturing

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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BAAG Naval Section Intelligence Summary, early November 1942, ship repair, maintenance and movements

Articles, Shipyards + Shipping
BAAG Report WIS #11 Detail 2 A1

Elizabeth Ride has sent the Naval section of a British Army Aid Group (BAAG) Waichow Intelligence Summary (WIS No.11) dated 8th November 1942. This covers shipping movements in and out of Hong Kong during the Japanese occupation in World War Two during mid to late October 1942. These reports also describes time spent by vessels undergoing repairs and maintenance in a […]

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Lucky Enamelware (立基搪瓷)and Leader Manufactory (立泰製造廠)

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing
Lucky Enamelware Detail Image 2 York Lo

York Lo: Lucky Enamelware (立基搪瓷)and Leader Manufactory (立泰製造廠) Left: Chow Yuk-Ho; Right: Chow Yuk-ho (second from right) with his wife, son Donald and daughter Audreyin the 1950s. (CUHK website) As profiled in several articles earlier on the website, many players in the once thriving HK enamelware industry in the 1950s-60s had either shut down or relocated their operations to West […]

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Teh Hu Steamship (德和輪船公司)

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Shipyards + Shipping
Teh Hu Steamship Detail Image 1 York Lo

York Lo: Teh Hu Steamship (德和輪船公司) Left: T.Y. Wu at an international shipping convention in Taipei in 1971 (National Repository of Cultural Heritage, Taiwan); Right: “New Teh Hu” on slip at the Taikoo Dockyard (presumably in the 1960s)  Since 1949, Shanghainese shipowners had dominated the shipping industry in Hong Kong but while most are familiar with Y.K. Pao of Worldwide […]

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