Distillery, East Point (1st generation) [c.1870-c.1880]

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The notes below this photo taken after the 1874 typhoon say the building on the left with the chimney was a distillery:

22. Damage to the Sugar Refinery, by Herostratus

 

I think it is the building shown at D in this 1889 map:

1889 East Point, by Admin

 

But the map shows the label "Distillery" on the building at C, so the distiller must have moved to that location at some point between 1874 and 1889.

I guess it was one of Jardine's businesses, based on its location.

The dates are rough guesses.

If you can add any more information about it, please leave a comment below.

Comments

There is an image in the Wellcome Collection (29773i) by Floyd, dated to 1873 though not firmly, that shows THREE chimneys. It can be seen that The Mint-become sugar refinery is on the right (the roofline exactly matches a contemporary water colour painting of The Mint when it was a mint), then there is an unidentified chimney, and then, close down on the water front, a spanking new building that one assumes is pretty new distillery. Does anyone have any ideas what the middle chimney might have served?

StephenD

Hong Kong: distillery and china sugar refinery at East Point, c. 1871. Photograph by W.P. Floyd, ca. 1873.