Kennedy Town Incinerator [1967-2008]
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Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2010-03-09 22:18
Current condition:
Demolished / No longer exists
Date Place completed:
c.1967-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)
Date Place demolished:
2008-01-01
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Photos that show this place
 1968 |
 1970 |
 1974 |
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Dates
From Hong Kong Government Reports Online (Date 1899-10-07):
The director of public works ... proposes....
...The erection of a refuse destructor at Kennedytown.
Dates
Kennedy Town Incinerator worked between 1967 and 1993.
In 2008/9 it was demolished (together with the Kennedy Town Abattoir) for the Kennedy Town Comprehensive Development Area .
See also ConstructioNews
1996 around incinerator abattoir and a bit of Davis Street
In 1996, some illegal immgrants were caught near Kennedy Town Mortuary (one of them was Yip Kai Foon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yip_Kai_Foon)
In the TVB footage, Police officers investigated around incinerator and abattoir. It showed a bit of Davis Street at (I guess it was Davis Street as you can see the old Kwun Lung Lau was caught in the video , above the trees at the end of the street)
the news coverage link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac1LuW8mM5Q
Davis Street at 5m44s (the traffic near Victoria Road was affected) :
https://youtu.be/Ac1LuW8mM5Q?t=343
Cheers, Chai