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Ma Tau Kok Gas Works (1st location) [1935-c.1994]

Submitted by David on Fri, 02/27/2015 - 16:51

They're shown here on a 1947 map (Plate 4-7, Mapping Hong Kong).

On a 1990 map (Plate 4-9, Mapping Hong Kong), this area is still marked "Gas Works", but so is the piece of land on the opposite side of To Kwa Wan Road (see http://gwulo.com/node/23669).

At some later date this site was redeveloped, and now it is the site of "The Grand Waterfront", a residential development.

Kennedy Town Gasometer [1935-????]

Submitted by David on Wed, 02/25/2015 - 23:40

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:—