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George FENWICK [1851-1896]

Submitted by Klaus on Sat, 01/26/2019 - 00:01

George Fenwick was the owner of a shipyard in the area of Queen’s Road East and Ship Street (Wanchai). 

He appears for the first time in the Jury List for 1877 as "Fenwick, George, Assistant, Inglis & Co.", and two years later as "Engineer" of the same company.

In the 1884 Jurors list he appears as Engineer of Fenwick & Co, living in the district Wantsai.

In the 1895/96 Jurors list he appears as Manager of Fenwick & Co, living in the Hongkong Hotel.  

Oriental Sugar Refinery [1876-c.1880]

Submitted by Herostratus on Thu, 09/20/2018 - 08:49

Opened in 1876, went out of business a few year later. The large chimney on the site survived for a few years until about c1890. Described as Jardine’s second sugar refinery in Hong Kong

In 1876 several Europeans financed by Chinese capital built the Oriental Sugar Refinery on property now defined by Swatow and Amoy Streets. It also soon failed and passed into receivership. Eventually it was taken over by Jardine, Matheson and Company and was merged with their China Sugar Refining plant at East Point

Power Station of HK Tramways [c.1903-c.1924]

Submitted by Klaus on Sun, 04/30/2017 - 18:10

Hong Kong Tramways built a power station at the Bowrington Canal. The canal was used both for turbine cooling water and delivery of coal with barges.

It operated from 1904 to 1923. The location was near or at the place where the Sharp Street Tram Depot was built later, probably a tram depot existed there before. Its unknown when the station was demolished, the dates are set preliminary from 1903 to 1924.

Sharp Street tram depot [1951-1989]

Submitted by Klaus on Tue, 01/10/2017 - 22:54

Tram depot of Hongkong Tramways Limited. Originally built as Russell Street Depot, it was rebuilt (and renamed Sharp Street East Depot) in 1951.

It was closed on 20 March 1989, trams were relocated to the new depot at Sai Wan Ho. Currently, Times Square Hong Kong is on the site.

Source: Back to the Old Depot 回到昔日的電車廠