Sookwanpo - So Kun Po

Mon, 09/22/2014 - 23:52

Cotton Mills

Date picture taken
1900s

Comments

So Kun Po and the sports grounds including Hong Kong Stadium, Indian Recreation Club, South China Stadium etc is located near Causeway Bay, Hong Kong Island. I think there used to be a cotton and dyeing factory, hence the tall chimney in the centre of the postcard. This is indeed a rare postcard.

"Hongkong Cotton-Spinning, Weaving and Dyeing Company, Ltd.

Cotton-Spinning in all its stages may be seen at the great factory at Causeway Bay, owned by the Hongkong Cotton-Spinning, Weaving and Dyeing Company, Ltd., the general managers of which are Messrs. Jardine, Mattheson & Co., Ltd. The buildings are nine in number and cover a very large area..."

Cotton Mills

from: Twentieth Century Impressions of Hongkong, Shanghai etc., 1908, p. 236

 

 

On Osbert Chadwick´s "Plan of the City of Victory" from 1882 Sookun Poo Market an Sookun Poo Valley is shown south of the Sugar Refinery at Causeway Bay in District No. 9: Sookun Poo.