John and Gertrude Tully were living at 8 Broadwood Road at the time of the death of my grandfather, Charles Warren, in June 1923 and, as neighbours, it is not surprising that they attended his funeral together with their colleagues the Cossarts who lived at no. 22. Asiatic Petroleum, for whom John Tully and Louis Cossart worked, rented several houses in Broadwood Road at the time. Tully came to Hong Kong as a marine engineer. He first worked for the Whampoa Dock Co. and later Taikoo Docks. He retired back to England in 1934. <Read more ...>
In my efforts to unravel the social circle of my grandfather Charles Warren from the names of the people who attended his funeral or sent wreaths, I've had difficulty identifying this person because of differences in the spelling of his surname and also the date of his death. Carl Smith describes him as a marine engineer, which seems right as we can find him in the Jurors Lists of 1909-11 as Foreman at the Taikoo Dockyard. There is a John George Swanston listed at the DBS in 1887 which would probably mean that he was born in Hong Kong. <Read more ...>
Launched on 29th July 1922 at the Taikoo Dockyard, the S.S. “Rhexenor” commissioned for the Blue Funnel Line, was a freighter of about 8000 gross tonnage, being 477.5 ft in length<Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1919
One of several general views of Taikoo Dockyard published within "The Far Eastern Review" magazines between 1919 and 1924. Note the extensive networks of railway tracks extending around the dock , slipways and other facilities. <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1911
This sketch map was published in Paper No.3861, published in the 1911 'Minurtes of Proceedigs' of the Institution of Civil Engineers .
Note the network of railway tracks within the yard, which served all the facilities including a building (top right) marked as "STORES" with 2 branches of railway track entering this facility. <Read more ...>
