Oriental Brewery / Hongkong Ice Company, Lai Chi Kok [1908-????] | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

Oriental Brewery / Hongkong Ice Company, Lai Chi Kok [1908-????]

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Submitted by David on Fri, 2020-06-19 16:01
Current condition: 
Demolished / No longer exists
Date Place completed: 
c.1908-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)

The Oriental Brewery was built on NKML 3 (see comments below). NKML 3 is outlined on the map above.

The brewery is also shown on Map 1913.1 at http://www.hkmaps.hk/mapviewer.html

Timeline:

  • 1908: The brewery is completed
  • ????: Oriental Brewery starts business.
  • ????: Oriental Brewery ceases brewing, limiting its business to manufacturing ice.
  • 1914: Hongkong Ice Company buys the operation from Oriental Brewery and continues runnning it.
  • ????: Plant closed and site re-developed.

The buy-out in 1914 was reported on page 1 of the China Mail for 1914-06-04. Extract:

The circular which the general managers addressed to shareholders on the 14th April fully explains the object for which this meeting has been called. I may say that since the Oriental Brewery Company ceased to be a brewery and got rid of their brewing machineiy and confined their energies to ice making only your general managers have endeavoured to come to some arrangement with the owners of the property which would eliminate undue competition. I am glad to say that through the good offices of Sir Paul Chater an agreement has been come to with the present owners of the brewery property which we recommend the shareholders in the Hongkong Ice Company now to confirm.

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Photos that show this place

1923

Comments

Submitted by moddsey on Sun, 2022-05-15 02:51.

The operation of the Oriental Brewery Company can be read here Scroll to Page 5 of the Hong Kong Telegraph dated 18 January 1910

Submitted by LizB on Tue, 2022-05-03 02:56.

The 1908 Public Works Report (p9) notes that "The Brewery on N.K.M.L. 3, Lai Chi Kok, was completed". No further details are provided.

Submitted by Klaus on Sun, 2022-05-15 02:32.

The brewery is not the predecessor of the coal yard at Lai Chi Kok. It was located at NKML 3, that lot was reclaimed 1908 or a bit earlier.

The coal yard was on NKML 8. The Public Works Report for 1926 refers: 

N.K.M.L. 8, Lai Chi Kok (completed),             514,150 sq. ft.

See also this map from 1923:

Lai Chi Kok
Lai Chi Kok, by Admin

Submitted by LizB on Sun, 2022-05-15 07:10.

Thanks Klaus, I will change the details.

Submitted by Admin on Sun, 2022-05-15 14:09.

I've added the outline of NKML3 to the map above, and updated the marker's location to match.