Everything tagged: gas holder

Gas holder built east of Java Road (reclamed at the end of the 1950s). The gas holder first appears on an 1962 aerial photograph. It did not have a long time of service: in the 1971 map it is still there, on a 1972 aerial photograph (hkmaps.hk) it is gone.

Today a Towngas building stands on this site.

[Note: I found this gas holder just by chance when I looked at the 1963 aerial photo posted below.]

Probably built after closure of Taikoo Sugar Refinery. The gas holder is visible on an aerial photo from 1972 (found at the website of Hong Kong Map Service - free of charge only with limited resolution). On the image from 1963 (nearest older date) it's not there. Demolished, eaxact year of demolition unknown.

Aberdeen Gasometer (No. 6 Holder) at Tin Wan Praya Road, built in 1981. It's owned by Towngas.

The 1935 completion date is an estimate, based on the Legco minutes for 24th June, 1936 [1], saying the gasometer had already been built here to replace the West Point Gasometer. There had been a big explosion at the West Point Gasometer in 1934 [3].

Extract from the Legco minutes for 24th June, 1936:

HON. MR. T. N. CHAU asked:—

OldTimer: