HF: The SCMP of 21st October 2015 had an article about an attempt to assess and protect a row of derelict buildings at 27-35 Cochrane Street, Central. At nearby Peel Street the concerned activists also found a storefront bearing the sign “Ying Kee Hard Coal” shown in the photo below. A heritage restoration expert Wong Hung Keung estimates the sign […]
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HF: Cheng Yum Kwai was born in 1947 in Xiamen. When he moved to Hong Kong with his family the following year, his father was working in Amoy Canning Corporation Ltd’s (Amoy’s) building department. The family subsequently lived in an Amoy-own Ngau Tau Kok village house. Cheng Yum Kwai was educated at Amoy Workers’ Children School and Bethel High School, dropping […]
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HF: The Ng Tung Chai waterfalls are among Hong Kong’s most spectacular, especially when taken as a group. They are located on the north face of its highest mountain Tai Mo Shan, at the head of the Lam Tsuen Valley just east of Kadoorie Farm. The highest waterfall is I believe Hong Kong’s highest at over 36 metres. Tymon Mellor […]
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York Lo’s article, Peter H.T. Woo – Father of the Hong Kong Electronics Industry, shows the close connection between the electronics industry in Japan and Hong Kong in the late 1950s. York writes, In March 1958 Peter Woo founded Champagne Engineering Corporation Ltd and began assembling transistor radios in Hong Kong using Japanese transistors, making Champagne the first electronics firm […]
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IDJ has sent this paper on the construction of the “Big” Buddha, at the Po Lin Monastery, Lantau Island. It took 10 years to plan and build the bronze statue which was finally opened to the public at the end of 1993. The paper was written by Peter PK Ng, of P K Ng Associates (HK) Ltd, whose website is linked […]
» Read moreHF: “A number of men, mainly from the north of Britain and Scotland, laid the foundations for technology in Hong Kong by their enterprise in the shipbuilding and repairing business. One of the earlier men was Alexander Ross of Glasgow who worked as a foreman in Stephen Prentis Hall’s yard. Hall is said to be the father of Sin Tak […]
» Read moreMak Ho Yin suggests that you may be interested in an online exhibition from the HK Government Records Office about the development of light industry between the 1950s and 1960s. http://www.grs.gov.hk/ws/erp/hk_light_industries/index.html Ho Yin also tells us of a lecture, in Cantonese, at The Heritage Discovery Centre about the history of Sai Ying Pun. It’s on 10th October 2015 and will […]
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Stephen Davies: The history of the lighter Tin Ming is interesting. From what I can work out she may have been either the ex-Argus or ex-Vigilante, one of two French gunboats built by Thorneycroft in London to a British (Woodcock) design in 1900, shipped out to HK where they were assembled and then operated on the West River until taken out […]
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HF: A 1962 Commerce and Industry Department trade bulletin, “An Emerging Industry” is subtitled Hong Kong transistor radios. An extract from the report, The structure of the industry is international, some units being entirely owned and operated by Hong Kong firms, and others either joint ventures between local and overseas companies or financed by foreign capital, chiefly American. Hong Hong’s initial […]
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This article is an attempt to bring together what we know about Japanese suicide boats based on Lamma Island at the end of the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong. There is also mention of such vessels appearing in other locations. The subject may appear to be drifting somewhat from HK’s industrial history. However, as the BAAG Report KWIZ #79/1 indicates […]
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