Current condition
Demolished / No longer exists
Date completed
(Day, Month, & Year are approximate.)
Date closed / demolished
(Day, Month, & Year are approximate.)
Shell petrol station located on the western side of Blake Pier. Was likely built after the end of WW2, appears first on a photo from 1947. Was removed in about 1961 or 62 when central reclamation started and Connaught Road was widened.
Update 2023-12-10
On the website The Story of Shell in China the company refers to the "Planet Motor Company, opened in 1928 by Mr Leung Dai. APC initially provided him with a roadside pump in Douglas Street, Central Hong Kong.
In the early 1940s he moved his business to Blake Pier, where he gradually developed the location into one of the most successful stations in Hong Kong."
Therefore the completion date was set to 1941.
Photos that show this Place
1926
1947
1953