Amazing (or frightening) how careless smoke was released into the air in these years. Right hand side is North Point Power Station, and on the Kowloon Peninsula Green Island Cement Works emitted even more smoke. <Read more ...>
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anyone know the location? Am guessing Tsim Sha Tsui, below Signal Hill. part of interesting series of photos of HK docks and the damage from that time <Read more ...>
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On the left of this image are railway tracks and a junction intruding into the Cable and Wireless tower compound. Has anyone knowledge of what these tracks were for? Reclamation works appears to be going on in the distance. Is the track going under Chatham Road or is it a dead-end? <Read more ...>
Hong Kong United Dockyards from the air. The orange coloured BARBER LINES cargo ship is in the drydock that now comprise the basement levels of the "Concrete Boat" in Shung King Street. The modern high rise was the dockyard's senior staff quarters. Containerisation is just creeping in at bottom right. China Light & Power's Hok Un Power station is top right. Image from early-mid 1970s. All very different now. IDJ <Read more ...>
I spotted this last night. Unfortunately the stone had already been weathered down. I was unable to read the engraving. It could be a K.I.L. or a H.H.I.L. I will return for a second visit in daylight later.
The same alley is the one with pillars on both ends that have mentioned before. If you check up the street map of the location, you should be able to see the same alley continues on the other side of Ma Tau Wai Road straight to Gilles Avenue South and beyond.
