Wesselingh family archive: dredger "Portugal" in Hong Kong, Causeway Bay Reclamation, 1953 | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

Wesselingh family archive: dredger "Portugal" in Hong Kong, Causeway Bay Reclamation, 1953

Wesselingh family archive: dredger "Portugal" in Hong Kong, Causeway Bay Reclamation, 1953
Submitted by Charles in Shanghai. View the original image on Flickr.
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Jan Wesselingh was an employee of Netherlands Harbour Works Co. from Amsterdam, working in Guangzhou (Canton) before WWII and in Hong Kong after WWII. I was brought in contact with two of his sons by Theodor A.R. Strauss, 1988-1993 secretary of Nederlandse Reünisten Vereniging China (NRCV, Dutch Reunists Association China), of which Jan Wesselingh was a member.

Can you recognise the background? There is a typical pagoda on the left.

More narrative will follow.

Courtesy Wesselingh family archives

Date picture taken (may be approximate): 
Thursday, January 1, 1953
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1950s Hong Kong
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Submitted by Stanislaus on Mon, 2019-10-07 00:10.

The white pagoda should be the Tiger Pagoda of the Tiger Balm Garden, Tai Hang.

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Mon, 2019-10-07 01:41.

Many thanks Stanislaus

Submitted by moddsey on Mon, 2019-10-07 07:23.

The reclamation works was for the filling-in of the former typhoon shelter. Today's Victoria Park stands in its place. See here

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Wed, 2019-10-09 12:17.

Many thanks for this information Moddsey!