Taikoo Dockyard – photos of staff and workers’ facilities – c1954

IDJ has sent these photos extracted from an in-house Taikoo Dockyard publication of 1954.

This was the period midway between the dockyard’s expansion after the Second World War during which extensive destruction had been caused both by the Japanese during their occupation in 1942–45 and allied bombing prior to the liberation of Hong Kong. And the Swire Group’s decision in the early 1970s to use the dockyard land to develop the large private housing estate, Taikoo Shing.

These images show: the Dockyard surgery and family clinic; the “Chinese” Welfare Centre including football pitch, cinema and canteen; Taikoo School for workers’ children and apprentices; the Staff club and China Navigation Company’s Hostel.

Source: Fifty Years of Shipbuilding and Repairing in the Far East: The Taikoo Dockyard & Engineering Company of Hong Kong Ltd, Technical Advertising Services, 1954

This article was first posted on 4th July 2016.

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2. Taikoo Dockyard – D MacDonald – responsible for preparatory construction work pre-1907
3. Taikoo Dockyard Managers – Philip Forster Nicholson, 1907-1910
4. Taikoo Dockyard Managers – James Reid, 1910-1926
5. Taikoo Dockyard during the Occupation 1942-1945 – new information and photo
6. World War Two – BAAG, Mateys and Allied attempts to disrupt HK Dockyards
7. Facebook: ‘Photos of Taikoo and Kowloon Dock Families’ group
8. James Thirlwell – Tai Koo Dockyard, Master Mariner and captain of the tug “Tai Koo”
9. Tai Koo Dockyard Tug 2 – captained by James Thirwell when sunk by a mine 1941

Related Indhhk articles – The China Navigation Company:

1. Henry Bridges Endicott and The China Navigation Co. – early Swire days in China – Part One
2. Henry Bridges Endicott and The China Navigation Co. – early Swire days in China – Part Two
3. Henry Bridges Endicott – biography