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Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Company housing, Hong Kong

Submitted by Klaus on Wed, 2020-06-10 00:37
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1923

From the G.

Taikoo Sugar Refinery, Hong Kong, 1940

Submitted by Klaus on Mon, 2020-06-08 00:19
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1940

From the G. Warren Swire Collection at the Historical Photographs of China website: https://www.hpcbristol.net/visual/sw08-189 (photo slightly enhanced)

Shows the cutting on (toady's) King's Road, Taikoo Terrace already demolished.

Taikoo Terrace [c.1890-c.1939]

Submitted by Klaus on Sun, 2020-06-07 23:52
Date Place completed: 
c.1890-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)
Date Place demolished: 
c.1939-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)

Built on the hill behind the Taikoo Sugar Refinery as European Staff Quarters. The two-storey building appears first on this photo from 1895 (labeled: New bungalow, club (left) and servants' quarters). It was named (later?) Taikoo Terrace mentioned in the PWR for 1923 (item 120a) and here.

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Early_Taikooshing_c1983

Submitted by Klaus on Sat, 2020-06-06 18:40

Gas holder visible top right between the high-rise buildings.

Text on Flickr:

Photo showing further reclamation to the north of the then Taikoo dockyard area, where highway network extending to Shaukeiwan will soon be developed.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1983
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Deep cutting on the Shaukiwan (King's) Road in the 1930s

Submitted by Klaus on Sat, 2020-06-06 17:48
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1930

Cropped from Brick_House_once_on_Kornhill.

The photo shows the deep on cutting the Shaukiwan (King's) Road.

"K" shows the Taikoo Sugar Refinery West Gate of Taikoo Dockyard.

Brick_House_once_on_Kornhill

Submitted by Klaus on Sat, 2020-06-06 17:44

Text on Flickr:

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1963
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Old Houses

Road works at Taikoo Sugar Refinery

Submitted by Klaus on Tue, 2020-06-02 22:13
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1924

From the G. Warren Swire Collection at the Historical Photographs of China website: https://www.hpcbristol.net/visual/sw05-137.

The new road (cutting) is being built. The 16 foot culvert for the nullah is already in place.

More information here.

Taikoo Sugar Refinery

Submitted by Klaus on Tue, 2020-06-02 22:01
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1929

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Deep Cutting on King’s Road in Quarry Bay Village [1927- ]

Submitted by Klaus on Tue, 2020-06-02 21:40
Date Place completed: 
c.1927-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)

To improve the road connection between Causeway Bay and Shaukiwan, the Hong Kong Government decided to widen the existing road. The Public Works Report (PWR) for 1921 refers:

As early as 1912 the necessity for this work became apparent, and negotiations were begun with Messrs. Butterfield & Swire for the surrender of certain areas and houses to enable the project to be carried on; but it was only in September, 1920, that an agreement with them was reached.

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Cutting on King’s road

Submitted by Klaus on Tue, 2020-06-02 21:10
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1910

Cropped from TaiKoo Dockyards & Sugar Refinery c1910

The yellow line shows the approximate route of the cutting on (today's) King's Road near the Taikoo Sugar Refinery.

More information here.

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