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Sookwanpo - So Kun Po

Sookwanpo - So Kun Po

Cotton Mills

Date picture taken (may be approximate): 
Monday, January 1, 1900
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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.

Thanks to moddsey. I have added So Kun Po to the title.

"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..."

Cotton Mills

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.