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Ma_Tau_Kok_Gas_Works

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Upper left photo showing the Town Gas SOUTH Works in late 50s.

 Upper right photo showing the same Works in 60s, which remained essentially the same.

 The middle 2 pictures do reveal drastic change in plant layout within the same South Works, the ‘Segas’ Oil Gasification Plant on the right of the left-hand-side photo (commissioned after 1966) had replaced the coal retort plant and the coal stockpiling yard that can be seen on the middle right photo (taken in 1964)

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1960

Gashouse

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2006

Old_Hong_Kong - Town Gas north & south gas plant in 1964 [煤氣馬頭角南廠及北廠]

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Production of Town Gas had changed from processing coal to hydro-cracking heavy oil in 1967, and then to processing naphtha from 70s.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1964

Aberdeen Gasometer

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2017

Taken from the retaining wall behind Wah Kwai Estate.

Aberdeen Gas Holder [1981- ]

Date Place completed: 
c.1981-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)

1960s Kowloon City pier

Behind the ferry terminal, Ma Tau Kok town gas plant is visible. See also annotations on Flickr.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1960

Wanchai Gasometer [????-????]

1920s Wanchai Reclamation-Morrison Hill.jpg

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1929

1928 Wanchai Gasometer

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1928
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Kennedy Town Gasometer [1935-????]

Date Place completed: 
1935-12-31

The 1935 completion date is an estimate, based on the Legco minutes for 24th June, 1936 [1], saying the gasometer had already been built here to replace the West Point Gasometer. There had been a big explosion at the West Point Gasometer in 1934 [3].

Extract from the Legco minutes for 24th June, 1936:

HON. MR. T. N. CHAU asked:—

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