Index Updated…including corruption at mine, dragon kilns, Royal Navy dockyard, 19th century Wanchai shipyards, China Sugar Refinery, Waglan Island Lighthouse…

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Hugh Farmer: The Index has been updated. We now have over 500 articles on a very wide range of subjects. If you would like to write on a new subject, add information/images about an existing one, or simply add a comment at the end of an article it would be great to hear from you. Feel free to contact me:-  indhhk”at”gmail.com […]

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Hong Kong – China Concrete Company Ltd

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing

HF: The Hong Kong – China Concrete Company Limited was jointly founded in 2005 by Hong Kong Concrete Company Limited and China Concrete Company Limited. The company has two main concrete batching plants in Lei Yue Mun and Yau Tong, which commenced production in 2005 and 2000 respectively. As both plants are located by the sea large quantities of raw material used […]

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The Kennedy Town Slaughterhouses – initial notes

Articles, Fishing and Agriculture, Industrial Buildings + Demolitions, Industrial Districts + Locations

HF: There were at least two slaughterhouses/abattoirs in Kennedy Town. As always additional information, photos, maps, clarification and corrections would be appreciated. I have highlighted specific questions in red. This 1889 map of Kennedy Town shows a slaughter house, adjacent incinerator and a sheep and pig depot south of Forbes Street. Their total length was about 200 metres.  For the […]

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Operation “Mateys” – Dock workers extraction from HK during the Japanese occupation WW2

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing, Shipyards + Shipping

Elizabeth Ride: Here is a transcription of an audio letter from my father, Sir Lindsay Ride, which concerns the Dockyard workers’ extraction from HK during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, World War Two. For further details about this please see the article, WW2 – BAAG, Mateys and Allied attempts to disrupt HK Dockyards, linked below. “Operation “Mateys” was one of the […]

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The Hongkong and China Gas Company – BAAG report/map – Mau Tau Kok – Sept 1944

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing, Utilities

Elizabeth Ride has sent this BAAG report and map about the Hongkong Gas Works at Mau Tau Kok in September 1944. Related Indhhk articles: The Hongkong and China Gas Company Ltd – early history from 1860s The Hongkong and China Gas Company Ltd – information and images from c1908 The Hongkong and China Gas Company Ltd / Towngas – 150th […]

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Acid factory, To Kwa Wan, BAAG reports

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing

Elizabeth Ride has sent three BAAG reports that briefly mention an unnamed acid factory in To Kwa Wan in 1942/43. Further information about the actual name of this company would be welcomed. Presumably these reports are all about the same factory? Or more on the acid factory in Cheung Sha Wan as indicated in WIS #14, 16.12.42. New Information WIS #14, […]

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Amoy Canning locations – Ngau Tau Kok Road, Amoy Gardens, Ngau Chi Wan – clarification needed?

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing

HF: I am somewhat confused about whether the contemporary Amoycan Industrial Centre was part of the area of Amoy Cannings large industrial concern which is now Amoy Gardens. The maps below show the two locations as being close together but did Amoy Canning in its prime actually extend north to include the site of the present Amoycan Industrial Centre before […]

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Mining in Hong Kong – map showing Indhhk article locations

Articles, Mines, Quarries + Dredging

Here are the locations of the eight mines which we have posted articles about. Tymon Mellor found the map and Malcolm Morris inserted the mines on it. Many thanks to both. This map  can be found in Sewell RJ et al, Hong Kong Geology: A 400-million year journey, CEGG, Gov of HKSAR, 2009. Chapter 8, Economic Geology – Minerals and Mines in […]

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Stone breaking in Hong Kong – two further images

Articles, Mines, Quarries + Dredging, Traditional Industries

IDJ has sent two more images of stone breaking, or “cutting” as the second image is titled, in Hong Kong. Related Indhhk articles: Stone breaking in early 20th Century Hong Kong Film of quarry stone breaking by hand 1953 – location The Index contains several articles about quarrying and the transportation of stone in Hong Kong.

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Agriculture in the “New Territory” – 1931 article

Articles, Fishing and Agriculture, Traditional Industries

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  journals contain articles on a variety of subjects of interest to us including, tea production, oysters, Kowloon waterworks, and a couple of mountains where mines are mentioned. One of the articles […]

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