The Public Works Report for 1922 refers:
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The knitting factory on K.I.L. 1388, Coronation Road, was completed.
K.I.L. 1388 was on todays Nathan Road, north of Nelson Street.
Still mentioned in the 1938 street index, probably demolished during or after WW2, replaced byresidnetial buildings in the 1950s.
The Public Works Report for 1913 refers:
Works completed:
Ginger Factory, K.I.L. 1176, Reclamation Street, Mongkoktsui
Marked on the 1920 Kowloon map, as being located in the Fo Pang area. The site is part of a larger area now occupied by Wah Yan College (Kowloon). According to the school's "History of WYK" website, a "groundbreaking ceremony for the new campus at 56 Waterloo Road" was held in 1950, so it is likely the soy factory no longer existed by then.
The building is mentioned in the PWD's annual reports:
Two adjacent factories, located on K.I.L. 629 and 631, on two rectangles of land bordered by Station St (now Shanghai St), Nathan Rd, Waterloo Rd and Man Ming Lane (with Portland St running down the middle), in Yau Ma Tei. Shown on the 1896 and 1903 Kowloon maps, but unclear whether still shown on the 1920 Kowloon map.
These two factories may or may not have been owned by the same company - yet to be established.
Located on K.I.L. 49, at the corner of Temple St and Nanking St, Kowloon (see 1896 & 1920 Kowloon Maps)
A photo of the 'factories of Nanyan [sic] Brothers Tobacco Co. Ltd. at Sung Wong Toi Road, c.1915' appears on p.78 of A Century of Kowloon Roads and Streets (Joint Publishing (HK), 2000). It looks to have been located very close to the waterfront, but the precise location is not yet known. Demolition started in 1999 for a major redevelopment of both this site and the Tien Chu factory (source: South China Morning Post, 'To Kwa Wan's $6bn project begins', 1 December 1999)
A large factory of the Tien Chu Chemical Industries (HK) Ltd was located at 72 Pak Tai Street, Ma Tau Kok/To Kwa Wan and is marked on the 1956 Kowloon map. It occupied a 200,000 ft2 site, and manufactured food additives/powders and raw chemicals, including caustic soda and hydrochloric acid.
It is also referred to as Tien Chu Ve-Tsin Chemical Industries Company.
Sources:
Industrial History of HK website: https://industrialhistoryhk.org/tien-chu-company/
Hi everyone! A few questions. How would someone travel from Canton to Hong Kong in the late 50s-early 60s? Which ports in Canton and HK would have been used? My grandma moved to HK in 1961 aged 20. She worked as an accountant at a factory that made leather gloves - any ideas of where abouts this factory would have been?
Also, does anyone have any pictures/experience of living in an apartment at that time, and what were they like? I know most people here are probably white middle class, but I am interested in seeing apartments that the Chinese would have lived in.
For details see Hongkong Ice Company, Ltd.
In about 1874, the factory started ice production with its first machine at Causeway Bay (Great George Street at the praya). The company was sold to Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co in 1879.
