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1920s Wanchai Reclamation-Morrison Hill.jpg

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

Ma Tau Kok Gas Works (1st location) [1935-c.1994]

Date Place completed: 
c.1935-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)
Date Place demolished: 
c.1994-12-31 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)

They're shown here on a 1947 map (Plate 4-7, Mapping Hong Kong).

On a 1990 map (Plate 4-9, Mapping Hong Kong), this area is still marked "Gas Works", but so is the piece of land on the opposite side of To Kwa Wan Road (see http://gwulo.com/node/23669).

At some later date this site was redeveloped, and now it is the site of "The Grand Waterfront", a residential development.

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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:—

Gas Works, Shek Tong Tsui [1864-c.1960]

Date Place completed: 
1864-12-03
Date Place demolished: 
c.1960-12-31 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)

A map from the 1930s (plate 3-5a, Mapping Hong Kong) shows this between Queen's Road West and Clarence Terrace, just west of the junction with Whitty Street.

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1920s Kennedy Town Map

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1924

Site of former Hong Kong & China Gas, Jordan Road Gas Works [????-c.1956]

Date Place demolished: 
c.1956-12-31 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)

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