Everything tagged: Water Works

Two-storey granite building above Pok Fu Lam Road.

PWR 1923: The work consisted of the site formation for, and erection of, a two-floor building, each floor containing a four-roomed flat with Servants Quarters adjoining.

PWR 1924: During the construction work, an “outcrop of first quality grey granite was struck which was quarried and used for the erection of the quarters” 

Located on Tai Woh Ping Road. Responsible for pumping saltwater from the nearby reservoir up to the flush systems of the nearby estates.

One of two reservoirs that appear on the 1889 map. They are labeled Sugar Works Reservoirs. Possibly built at the same time as the Sugar Refinery.

Was demolished about 1970 and used for housing estates and Taikoo Primary School.