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The Hong Kong and Macao Glass Manufacturing Company Ltd – HK Daily Press article

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing

Hugh Farmer writes: From the  Hong Kong Daily Press dated 9 January 1886. “In the farther corner of the new suburb in Belcher’s Bay called Kennedy Town stand the works of the Hongkong and Macao Glass Manufacturing Company Limited, whose big, round, squat chimney, technically called a “cone” can be seen struggling to make itself visible above the roves and […]

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3 Location of Glass Works Hospital?

Queries + Answers

Frank Watson has been reading about the Plague outbreak in 1894. There is mention of a “Glass Works Hospital” which had been hastily converted from a glass works factory. He thinks this may have been in Kennedy Town. Can anyone confirm this, provide the exact location and any further information? Newsletter 06 “moddsey” through gwulo.com says that the location of […]

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