North Point power station
IDJ has kindly sent in this article about North Point power station. He notes: Images from various sources mostly unknown, from the internet. NORTH POINT POWER STATION Present day residents of Hong Kong can barely envisage that a major electricity generating power station once dominated the waterfront in the bustling North Point district of Hong Kong island. Today all people […]
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Many thanks to IDJ for sending all the following images of North Point Power Station. HF: IDJ notes that he is unaware of the original source of the images which he has found on the internet. I have included IDJ’s notes on the subject matter. If you can provide further information about any of the photographs, or about the power […]
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IDJ: Present day residents of Hong Kong can barely envisage that a major electricity generating power station once dominated the waterfront in the bustling North Point district of Hong Kong island. Today all people see from the harbour is a wall of high-rise residential buildings rising up to the hilltops. However, there are clues are in surviving street names in […]
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