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Reference in the same article to Lane, Crawford's wharf (apparently not an actual pier), recalls that the first timber pier was erected in Hongkong in 1863. This was at a delightful suburb known then as Spring Gardens, Wanchai, commemorated in Spring Garden Lane, which in later years, and until recently, had a most unsavoury reputation. The pier was built for Messrs. McGregor and Co., who had godown there. It must be borne in mind that the seafront came up to the end of Spring Garden Lane up to ten years ago, prior to the Wanchai reclamation. All former piers in the Colony had been unsubstantial ones made of bamboo, on the lines of those seen at the North Point bathing clubs to-day. This new pier of McGregor's, however, was an elaborate affair jutting out into Wanchai Bay for a distance of 250 feet, with a low-water depth of no less than 25 feet, thus allowing the largest ships of that period to berth alongside. This seems to have been the fore-runner of other wharves and piers there, and Godown Company termed the Wharf and Godown Company (nucleus of the present big concern at Kowloon) was formed in 1871 to utilise pier and godown properties then existing at Wanchai.

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WHARFS Reference in the same article to Lane, Crawford's wharf (apparently not an actual pier), recalls that the first timber pier was erected in Hongkong in 1863. This was at a delightful suburb known then as Spring Gardens, Wanchai, commemorated in Spring Garden Lane, which in later years, and until recently, had a most unsavoury reputation. The pier was built for Messrs. McGregor and Co., who had godown there. It must be borne in mind that the seafront came up to the end of Spring Garden Lane up to ten years ago, prior to the Wanchai reclamation. All former piers in the Colony had been unsubstantial ones made of bamboo, on the lines of those seen at the North Point bathing clubs to-day. This new pier of McGregor's, however, was an elaborate affair jutting out into Wanchai Bay for a distance of 250 feet, with a low-water depth of no less than 25 feet, thus allowing the largest ships of that period to berth alongside. This seems to have been the fore-runner of other wharves and piers there, and Godown Company termed the Wharf and Godown Company (nucleus of the present big concern at Kowloon) was formed in 1871 to utilise pier and godown properties then existing at Wanchai.
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WHARFS Reference in the same article to Lane, Crawford's wharf (ap- parently not an actual pier), recalls that the first timber pler was erected in Hongkong in 1863. This was at a delightful suburb known then as Spring Gardens, Wanchal, commemorated in Spring Garden Lane, which in later years, and until recently, had a most unsavoury reputation. The pier was built for Messrs. McGregor and Co., who had godown there. It must be borne in mind that the seafront came up to the end of Spring Garden Lane up to ten years ago, prior to the Wanchai reclamation. All former piers in the Colony had been un- substantial ones made of bamboo, on the lines of those seen at the North Point bathing clubs to-day. This new pier of McGregor's, however, was an elaborate affair jutting out into Wanchai Bay for a distance of 250 feet, with a low-water depth of no less than 25 feet, thus allowing the largest ships of that period to berth alongside. This seems to have been the fore-runer of other wharves and piers there, and Godown Company termed the Wharf and Godown Company (nucleus of the present big concern at Kowloon) was formed in 1871 to utilise pier and godown properties then existing at Wanchai.. +
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WHARFS

Reference in the same article to Lane, Crawford's wharf (ap- parently not an actual pier), recalls that the first timber pler was erected in Hongkong in 1863. This was at a delightful suburb known then as Spring Gardens, Wanchal, commemorated in Spring Garden Lane, which in later years, and until recently, had a most unsavoury reputation. The pier was built for Messrs. McGregor and Co., who had godown there. It must be borne in mind that the seafront came up to the end of Spring Garden Lane up to ten years ago, prior to the Wanchai reclamation. All former piers in the Colony had been un- substantial ones made of bamboo, on the lines of those seen at the North Point bathing clubs to-day. This new pier of McGregor's, however, was an elaborate affair jutting out into Wanchai Bay for a distance of 250 feet, with a low-water depth of no less than 25 feet, thus allowing the largest ships of that period to berth alongside. This seems to have been the fore-runer of other wharves and piers there, and Godown Company termed the Wharf and Godown Company (nucleus of the present big concern at Kowloon) was formed in 1871 to utilise pier and godown properties then existing at Wanchai..

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