Current condition
Demolished / No longer exists
Date completed
(Day, Month, & Year are approximate.)
Date closed / demolished
(Day, Month, & Year are approximate.)
Timeline:
- c. 1901: The pier is built. It is one of the first piers on the newly reclaimed land, and is shown on the 1901 map.
- 1910: Julius Arnold mentions this pier in A Handbook to Canton, Macao and the West River:
- The steamers for Wuchow leave from the Yuen On Wharf, the next wharf to the Hong Kong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Company's "Wing Lok Wharf."
- 19??: On the map I've tentatively dated to 1945, the pier is labelled 'Yuen Un Wharf'. My guess is that the 'Un' is a typo for 'On' but I can't be sure. (The exact date of the information on this map is somewhere between 1930 and 1945, see point #1 at https://gwulo.com/node/38765)
- 1932: The map labelled 'Map: 1932' at https://www.hkmaps.hk/viewer.html shows this pier and the pier off Cleverley Street both labelled Asia Lands Ltd. Asia Lands Ltd owned these two piers, and made money by leasing them to shipping companies. Asia Lands Ltd's annual reports call this pier Hing Kee Wharf, and the pier off Cleverley Street Po Tak Wharf, eg see their 1938 report on page 5 of The Hong Kong Telegraph, 1938-12-28.
- 1948: At the Asia Lands Ltd's annual meeting they noted: 'The Hing Kee Wharf, considered unsafe by the Government, was demolished and under existing conditions it was decided not to reconstruct it.' Source: p.2, The China Mail, 1948-07-16