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Quarry Maps then and now – Jordan Valley, Anderson Road, Diamond Hill, Kwai Chung and Cha Kwo Ling

Articles, Industrial Districts + Locations, Mines, Quarries + Dredging

Thomas Ngan and HF: Quarrying and Stone Breaking have a very long history in Hong Kong. Firstly providing dressed building stone and later aggregate for concrete. Before 1966 there were many small ‘permit’ quarries scattered across Hong Kong. These mainly produced dressed building stone. The last of these quarries closed in 1974 after which only larger, licenced quarries were in […]

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Wi-Fi ‘Guard’ device to protect incense trees – SCMP article

Articles, Manufacturing, Traditional Industries

HF: Today’s SCMP has an article about the latest effort to protect the endangered incense tree in Hong Kong. Namely, a ‘tree guard’ system that monitors realtime data about trees to stop them from being illegally felled or stolen. The system has been developed at Chinese University. Prof Chiu Siu Wai, of the University’s School of Life Sciences, says it […]

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Four Hills Elementary School, Cha Kwo Ling – Four Kowloon quarries?

Articles, Mines, Quarries + Dredging

Thomas Ngan and HF: Neither of us are certain of the factual accuracy of all the following. HF in particular as almost everything about the school and to a lesser extent about the four hills/quarries is in Chinese with poor translations. Thomas is working on more accurate translations. We are probably taking on too much in one article as we […]

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Syd’s Last Pirate: ‘Chic’ Eather’s biography – Cathay Pacific, Kai Tak, Jamco and Haeco

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, People, Transport

Captain Charles ‘Chic’ Eather, born 1920, has had a long life.  A great part of his working life was spent in aviation and much of this was connected to Cathay Pacific, Kai Tak airport and aircraft maintenance companies at the airport post WW2 and up to his retirement in 1975. His biography Syd’s Last Pirate was published as a CD-Rom. […]

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World War Two – BAAG reports – Taikoo Dockyard -1942-1944

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing, Shipyards + Shipping, Transport

HF: Elizabeth Ride has sent a number of BAAG reports about Taikoo Dockyard during 1943-1944. As she says this material is very raw but I think will be of great use to anyone interested in knowing what was going on there during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong. Elizabeth apologises for the the state of some of the documents, which […]

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Dan Waters – HK Construction Industry Award and Lingnan Honorary Fellowship

Articles, Construction, People

HF: Double congratulations to Dan Waters (Dr Deric Daniel Waters) who on the 12th September  at the Chartered Institute of Building’s  Annual Dinner in Hong Kong was presented with a Construction Industry Honorary Award. Dan is also going to be made an Honorary Fellow of Lingnan University, HK, at a ceremony on Monday 13th October 2014 Dan was the first […]

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Symposium : Postwar Design and Industry in East Asia

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HF: Jennifer Wong, Assistant Curator, West Kowloon Cultural District Authority has sent details of  a public symposium and industrial design history workshop to be held this Friday 12th in Kowloon Tong and Saturday 13th in Shenzen. Subject: Import/Export: Postwar Design and Industry in East Asia. You’ll find full details at http://www.westkowloon.hk/en/whats-on/current-forthcoming/event-type/highlights    

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Tai Shek-ha 大石下 Stone-quarry – An 1841 hamlet near Belcher Bay, Kennedy Town?

Articles, Industrial Districts + Locations, Mines, Quarries + Dredging

HF: New information in red Guy Breshears contacted me explaining he lives in Hong Kong and is working on a HK history project. He wondered if we had any information about Tai Shek-ha 大石下 Stone-quarry – A hamlet which is mentioned in a 1841 HK Census. The first set of census results were published in the 2nd issue of H.K. Govt. Gazette, […]

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A Look Back : Civil Engineering in Hong Kong 1841-1941

Articles, Industrial Districts + Locations, Manufacturing, Non-Hong Kong Companies

HF: Tymon Mellor and IDJ have both sent the article, A Look Back : Civil Engineering in Hong Kong 1841-1941 written by C Michael Guilford. The preface says this was  written as a contribution to mark the 50th Anniversary of the founding of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers which was from 1947 to 1975, The Engineering Society of Hong Kong. […]

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