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Lamma Island Industry

Articles, Industrial Districts + Locations, Manufacturing, Traditional Industries

Hugh Farmer: This article is the result of several people’s research  into industrial development, manufacturing, agriculture, aviation, fishing, quarrying, utilities, shipping and other related topics on Lamma Island. We also include information about Lamma during World War Two which may be of a more general nature. If you can provide information on any of the subjects below, or add to […]

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Tuen Mun – “From Ancient Port to City of the Future”, 1982 account

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Industrial Districts + Locations, Manufacturing, Shipyards + Shipping

IDJ has sent this monograph of the dramatic changes that occurred in Tuen Mun in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It starts rather gloomily, “Castle Peak, in reality a string of scattered settlements along the shoreline of the Bay, a straggle of ramshackle squatter huts pushing up the creek of the Tuen Mun river…” click the pages to enlarge. […]

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