Kerosine Godowns, Kennedy Town [????-????]

Submitted by David on Thu, 04/16/2020 - 13:25
Current condition
Demolished / No longer exists

On "Map 1901.3" at http://www.hkmaps.hk/mapviewer.html, this is marked as:

Kerosine Godowns, M.L. 246

Photos that show this Place

1904
1905
1910s

Comments

That's an interesting question. The Royal Dutch Petroleum Company were trading in Hong Kong around this time, see: https://www.shell.com.cn/en_cn/about-us/who-we-are/shell-history-in-china/_jcr_content/par/textimage.stream/1468531404098/71ba96f4fb7485cc77b7c388e7b015b5f330c699a976f6a99b5e57fac91cb601/shell-story2004.pdf

But I'm not sure who were the owners of this building. There's an article Kerosine Oil Case on p.2 of The China Mail, 1900-09-04 that mentions "the Standard Oil Company's kerosine godown at Kennedy Town" but it isn't clear if that refers to this building, and if it does then whether Standard Oil owned the whole site or were just one of the companies using it.