HF: This film, titled Kai Tak Airport – the Final Approach, is a production of Cathay Pacific Airways Corporate Coomunications Department. It covers: A brief history of Kai Tak The history of Cathay Pacific CP’s two founders, American, Roy C Farrell and Australian, Sydney H de Kantzow Butterfield & Swire’s involvement Links to the HK Aircraft Engineering Company (HAECO) P&O’s […]
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With the ceding of Kowloon to the British in 1860, under the Convention of Peaking, development of the barren headland begin. What had been an area for boat building and small villages became a city with roads and services. Naming of the roads was a problem. The initial development on Kowloon was a military camp and by 1864 this became […]
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Hugh Farmer: The Index has been updated. If you would like to write on a new subject, add information/images about an existing one, or simply add a comment at the end of an article it would be great to hear from you. Or if you find photographs, maps or other images of HK’s Industrial past that we haven’t yet mentioned. Or […]
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Tymon Mellor has sent this 1957 map showing a brick works just NE of Brick Hill (Nam Long Shan) the southern part of which is now Ocean Park amusement park. The entrance to Ocean Park and the start of the cable car which takes you alongside Brick Hill is itself just NE of what was once the brick works. Tymon […]
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Two people have kindly responded to this call and have agreed to to translate a couple of paragraphs every so often. Both are working on a short pieces about companies on Peng Chau Island. Could you also by translating Chinese into English? An obvious weakness of this website is that it employs English in predominately Chinese speaking Hong Kong. We are […]
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HF: The Hong Kong Heritage Project’s latest Quarterly Newsletter, 2015/1, contains a wealth of information for those interested in HK’s history and especially its industrial past. As shown below there are also details of Hulu Culture’s latest exhibition which explores the industrial history of Hung Hom and Mau Tai Wai – including CLP, Whampoa Dockyard and Green Island Cement.| HKHP’s […]
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RL = Rick Law’s comments have been added. Elizabeth Ride: My father Sir Lindsay Ride shot several cine films of Hong Kong in the 1950s. The Hong Kong Heritage Project have posted some extracts. Please note the originals are clearer than seen in these links. Hugh Farmer: I would like to thank Elizabeth for making these films available for public […]
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Rico Lee + HF: HK: (1) Vianini Lavori SpA is an Italian company with a history of involvement in large construction projects including several in Hong Kong. It is a subsidiary of Caltagirone and I think has operated since 1890, though I unsure which of these companies commenced operations in that year. HF: (2) The above photo shows the dolo-shaped […]
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James Chan: I thought this map would be useful. Here is a snipped version of HK Island and Kowloon. The full version can be seen in the link below. This shows rather small maps of reclamation development: a) up to 1887 b) 1888-1924 c) 1925-1945 d) 1946-1967 e) 1968-1976 f) 1977-1996 This article was first posted on 21st March 2015. […]
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HF: This map is from an Urban Council book published in 1991. It shows what a large number of mines and quarries there have been in Hong Kong. Many of these may well have been small operations but it forces me to revise my previous estimation of around 25 commercial mines. Please excuse the highlighting which was done many years […]
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