George Fenwick was the owner of a shipyard in the area of Queen’s Road East and Ship Street (Wanchai).
He appears for the first time in the Jury List for 1877 as "Fenwick, George, Assistant, Inglis & Co.", and two years later as "Engineer" of the same company.
In the 1884 Jurors list he appears as Engineer of Fenwick & Co, living in the district Wantsai.
In the 1895/96 Jurors list he appears as Manager of Fenwick & Co, living in the Hongkong Hotel. <Read more ...>
To me it looks like Harcourt Road looking east. In the back, upon the hill, it looks like Bowen Road. On the right are barracks with a mast (Wellington Barracks?). Most interesting is the Italia pavillion on the right, part of an international fair or exhibition? By the road, pipes are stored (diameter about 1 metre) - for a gas pipeline?
Opened in 1876, went out of business a few year later. The large chimney on the site survived for a few years until about c1890. Described as Jardine’s second sugar refinery in Hong Kong
In 1876 several Europeans financed by Chinese capital built the Oriental Sugar Refinery on property now defined by Swatow and Amoy Streets. It also soon failed and passed into receivership. Eventually it was taken over by Jardine, Matheson and Company and was merged with their China Sugar Refining plant at East Point <Read more ...>
