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Location of Gas Works

Submitted by Klaus on

From:

Hong Kong Government Gazette, May 3, 1940

Order.

The premises described in the Schedule to this order are hereby declared to be protected places for the purpose of the Defence Regulations, 1939.

…..

Schedule.

B.-Gas Works

I. The Hong Kong and China Gas Company’s works and premises in Hong Kong at-

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

Submitted by David on

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

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:—