Pok Fu Lam Zone Substation [????- ]
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A Clerk in the Hongkong Electric Company in pre-WWII Hong Kong
Austin Coates was engaged in the 1970s to write a history of the Hong Kong Electric Company. He credits Raymond Smith, a former engineer who had served the company for many years, with providing lots of useful information to 'feed the book'.
Below is an extract from his account of the 1937 typhoon:
I think it stood roughly where the eastern end of Luen Wo Apartments and Nam Tin Building stand today. It was very close to the North Point power station, and @jjohnantonsmith notes it was "the duty engineer's quarters, where my father (Raymond Smith) and my mother (Pixie Smith) lived until his retirement in 1956; he cultivated the garden in front of the house."
There's a good view of it on map 1945.5 at http://www.hkmaps.hk/mapviewer.html - it was set at a different angle from the rest of the buildings in the area.