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Tannery, Ma Tau Kok [c.1920-c.1958]

Date Place completed: 
c.1920-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)
Date Place demolished: 
c.1958-12-12 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)

The tannery was located on K.I.L. 640 and the adjacent K.I.L. 1267, near the Ma Tau Kok Cattle Depot. The tannery is marked on the 1920 Kowloon map, but had probably already been in existence for some time by then. It can still be seen on a 1957 map of Kowloon (https://www.hkmaps.hk/viewer.html), but by 1960 it had been replaced by residential housing.

 

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Industrial heritage in Hong Kong

I am putting together a list of past industrial sites (and some present ones) in Hong Kong, with links to the relevant Gwulo pages (or if there is no dedicated Gwulo page for them yet, Public Works Department Annual Reports). There is already a very comprehensive list on the Industrial History of Hong Kong website - my list is just trying to group together relevant Gwulo pages and PWD sources.  For now, I have not included sites such as godowns, wharves, piers, electricity substations, etc as they are so numerous that it would be a time-consuming task.

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