Cotton Mills
Sookwanpo - So Kun Po
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Submitted by christoph
Date picture taken (may be approximate):
Monday, January 1, 1900
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- Sookwanpo - So Kun Po shows Place Sookwanpo - So Kun Po [????- ]
- Sookwanpo - So Kun Po shows Place Cotton Mills of the Hongkong Cotton-Spinning, Weaving, and Dyeing Company, Ltd. [1898-1914]
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So Kun Po
So Kun Po and the sports grounds including Hong Kong Stadium, Indian Recreation Club, South China Stadium etc is located near Causeway Bay, Hong Kong Island. I think there used to be a cotton and dyeing factory, hence the tall chimney in the centre of the postcard. This is indeed a rare postcard.
So Kun Po - Sookwanpo
Thanks to moddsey. I have added So Kun Po to the title.
Cotton-Spinning, Weaving and Dyeing Company
"Hongkong Cotton-Spinning, Weaving and Dyeing Company, Ltd.
Cotton-Spinning in all its stages may be seen at the great factory at Causeway Bay, owned by the Hongkong Cotton-Spinning, Weaving and Dyeing Company, Ltd., the general managers of which are Messrs. Jardine, Mattheson & Co., Ltd. The buildings are nine in number and cover a very large area..."
from: Twentieth Century Impressions of Hongkong, Shanghai etc., 1908, p. 236
On Osbert Chadwick´s "Plan of the City of Victory" from 1882 Sookun Poo Market an Sookun Poo Valley is shown south of the Sugar Refinery at Causeway Bay in District No. 9: Sookun Poo.