Preserving Hong Kong’s Industrial Heritage
“A strange time to embark on a new venture, but the Arnhold brothers had a habit of testing the limits. At the end of 1935, they founded a new company called Arnhold Trading & Company Ltd. In fact the business it was to conduct was anything but new. This was a return to historical strengths in the logistics of exporting […]
» Read moreDear Subscriber I must apologize for the delay in sending out this Newsletter which has been considerably longer than the two months promised on the site’s Home Page. We currently have over 1,450 articles posted on our website. Stephen Davies suggested a while back that he thought the site was sufficiently large and, though I hesitate to use the words, […]
» Read moreYork Lo: Pao Hsing Cotton Mill(寶星紡織廠) who contributed this??? 7 story Pao Hsing Mill – the largest cotton mill in Kwai Chung in 1961 (HKU Libraries) While Pao Hsing Cotton Mill might not have been one of the largest and best-known cotton mills in HK, it was a notable firm in the history of HK cotton spinners for several reasons […]
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Tymon Mellor has sent the following report published on 11th April 1939 on Labour and Labour Conditions in Hong Kong. The author was Mr HR Butters. Sessional Papers 1939, Papers laid before the Legislative Council of Hongkong 1939. HF: The Hong Kong Memory Project introduces this report with the following: – The 65-page report was prepared by the first Labour Officer in […]
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Hugh Farmer with thanks to IDJ: Some initial notes on William Seybourne Bailey founder with EO Murphy of WS Bailey & Co, Bailey’s Shipyard, Hong Kong. Thanks to Robyn Evans, WS Bailey’s granddaughter for birth and death details. Robyn adds the information on his gravestone is incorrect. born Dublin 15th April 1859 died War Memorial Hospital Hong Kong 27th December […]
» Read moreOur article, Alfred Herbert Rennie – biography, the Hongkong Milling Company and his suicide, includes the following information: The troubled career of Alfred Hebert Rennie is remembered in a former coastal village at JUnk Bay (now Tseung Kwan O) in Kowloon, where he opened a flour mill in early 1907. Scion of a well known Ontario family, Rennie was educated […]
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HF: Islay Jamieson added the following comment on 9th July 2024 attached to our article, Imperial Airways – including first scheduled flight into Hong Kong 1936 ”Just reading this…researching my father’s career…did you ever come across Maurice Curtis my father who was the local manager for Imperial Airways in Hong Kong…my mother flew out to Hong Kong on a flying […]
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HF: Standing at 552 metres above sea level, the Peak is the highest mountain on Hong Kong Island and a natural signaling post for incoming cargo ships in the nineteenth century. The more privileged early residents, however, found it the perfect retreat from Hong Kong’s scorching summer heat. Governor Sir Richard MacDonnell’s summer home (circa 1868) was built there to […]
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