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HK Electric Co. LTD Kennedy Road Sub-Station.jpg

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2021

Cavendish Heights-Hong Kong Electric Company staff quarters

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1970

2020 Hong Kong Electric Co. Ltd - Aberdeen Substation

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2020

HEC quarters - Semi-detached building on land bounded by Electric Rd / Tin Chong St / King's Road [????-c.1959]

Date Place demolished: 
c.1959-12-31 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)

I think it stood roughly where the eastern end of Luen Wo Apartments and Nam Tin Building stand today. It was very close to the North Point power station, and @jjohnantonsmith notes it was "the duty engineer's quarters, where my father (Raymond Smith) and my mother (Pixie Smith) lived until his retirement in 1956; he cultivated the garden in front of the house."

There's a good view of it on map 1945.5 at http://www.hkmaps.hk/mapviewer.html - it was set at a different angle from the rest of the buildings in the area.

North Point 'A' power station turbine hall in 1955

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1955

No. 7 steam turbine (the second one) was in commission as early as 1932 so survived the war.

This was an unusual type to see in the 1960s as it was a Brush Ljungstrom machine, unlike the usual conventional British steam turbines similar to No 9 in the foreground.

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