Lychee cultivation in the New Territories, a range of items made from the wood, in the 1920s

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Lychee Cultivation In The NT, HK Naturalist Detail C

HF: It is worth looking at the Hong Kong Naturalist – “a quarterly illustrated journal principally for Hong Kong and South China” which was published from Jan 1930 until Feb 1941. The  journal contain articles on a variety of subjects of interest to us including, oysters, Kowloon waterworks, agriculture in the New Territory [sic] and a couple of mountains where mines are mentioned. […]

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Industrial Districts – Sai Kung

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing, People, Shipyards + Shipping, Utilities

This article is the result of several people’s research into industrial development and other related topics in Sai Kung district. If you can provide information on any of the subjects below, or add to the list, it would be good to hear from you. I can then gradually add to this framework to provide a  fuller picture with an acknowledgment […]

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Fotoprint Service (浮圖攝影)

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Fotoprint Service Detail Image 1 York Lo

York Lo: Fotoprint Service (浮圖攝影) Fotoprint on Stanley Street in 1959 on the right next to Mow Kie Ladies Tailor (ABC); Right: Fotoprint on D’Aguilar Street in 1965. (Gwulo)  Fotoprint Service was a prominent distributor of photo supplies and provider of photofinishing service from the 1940s to the 1980s alongside several of the firms covered earlier such as Asia Photo […]

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Beer in Hong Kong – Part One – the early days up to the planned opening of its first brewery

Articles, Food and Beverages

Martyn Cornell has kindly given permission for extracts from his article, A Short History of Beer in Hong Kong, to be posted on our website. The article was published in the Journal of the Brewery History Society, Brewery History, Issue 156, 2012 Martyn has his own blog, Zythophile – Beer now and then, linked below. Despite its title the article is […]

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Waglan Island lighthouse – inaugurated on 9th May, 1893

Articles, Shipyards + Shipping

Stephen Davies rightly laments: Some of our maritime heritage, like the older lighthouses, are…gazetted monuments… but by far and away the majority of the maritime past that made Hong Kong what it is, from the historic dockyards, shipyards, wharves, jetties and basins…are dead, buried and for the most part forgotten. From a note attached to Stephen’s article, The Principal Datum: Some […]

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K.K. Lam (林君傑) – the Rise and Fall of a Watch Band Merchant turned Speculator 

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K.K. LamWatch Band Merchant Detail B Image 1 York Lo

York Lo: K.K. Lam (林君傑) – the Rise and Fall of a Watch Band Merchant turned Speculator Left: K.K. Lam (Federation of HK Watch Trade & Industries); Right: opening of Ying Kit Stock Co in October 1972 (WKYP, 1972-10-30)  Earlier in the group we have covered three HK industrialists whose high-profile disappearances captured the headlines in their respective decade – […]

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