譚肇康在何東太夫人紀年堂内的瓷相
楊秀玲女士 -保良局歷史博物館館長 - 在講座中提到景賢亭在1957年的興建是為了放置從保良局上環舊址發現的開幕石碑有關的。
「保良局歷史講座系列 2020 — 排難恤困」
善行築蹟:從保良局總部的建築看歷史
講者:楊秀玲女士 保良局歷史博物館館長
片中講述造瓷相的原因和造價
保良局博物館珍藏照片 - 左六: 譚肇康 / 右六: 主席 伍華 右五:蔡寶田
參觀保良局博物館, 有展示歷届理事的互動屏幕, 可以找到1934-35度任總理的譚肇康。
保良局歷史講座系列2020 - 排難恤困 - 游子安教授
游子安教授(Prof. Yao, Chi-On),廣東新會人,香港中文大學哲學博士,專研中國歷史。 曾任香港中文大學文化及宗教研究系助理教授、道教文化研究中心副主任,亦曾於臺灣國立暨南國際大學歷史學系擔任客座。 歷年任教於香港樹仁大學、香港城市大學、香港中文大學。
現任: 珠海學院中國文學系副教授、珠海學院香港歷史文化研究中心副主任暨名譽研究 員、香港特别行政區古物諮詢委員會委員、嗇色園文化委員會顧問、國際亞細亞 民俗學會香港分會會長、華南歷史學會會長。
研究範圍: 專研中國歷史民俗 明清勸善書,香港、華南與東南亞地區道教及民間宗教,二十世紀宗教慈善事業。
主要著作: 著有《善與人同——明清以來的慈善與教化》、《勸化金箴——清代善書研究》、 《善書與中國宗教:游子安自選集》等專書; 編著有: 《1894-1920 年代:歷史鉅變中的香港》(與蕭國健教授合編)、《鑪峰古今——香 港歷史文化論集》(與蕭國健教授合編)、《細味香江系列》(與張瑞威主編,至 2017 年已出版 13 部)、《弘道展慈——香江道慈八十載》、《爐峰弘善——嗇色園 與香港社會》、《香江顯跡——嗇色園歷史與黃大仙信仰》、《道風百年——香港道 教與道觀》(獲評選為 2002 年香港書展「40 部名家推介新書」之一)等。
近著有: 吉川 雅之、倉田 徹編集『香港を知るための 60 章』(《認識香港 60 章》),東京: 明石書店,2016 年出版。本人執筆第 48 章< 道教・佛教・儒教>;第 49 章 < 冠婚葬祭>(倉田明子日譯) “ The Xiantiandao and Publishing in the Guangzhou-Hong Kong Area from the Late Qing to the 1930s: The Case of the Morality Book Publisher Wenzaizi”. (Translated by Philip Clart), in Clart, P. and Scott, G. A. (Eds.), Religious Publishing and Print Culture in Modern China, 1800-2012 (Boston and Berlin : De Gruyter, December, 2014). 論文見刊於《世界宗教研究》(北京)、《民俗曲藝》(臺北)、《中國科技史雜誌》 (北京)、《中國文化研究所學報》(香港)等。
保良局關帝廳瓷相中的香港望族 - 丁新豹博士
Grand Old Families of Hong Kong: Porcelain Photos at Kwan Ti Hall, Po Leung Kuk
2022年9月3日
公眾講座:保良局關帝廳瓷相中的香港望族
講者:丁新豹博士(香港中文大學歷史系客席教授)
講座由古物古蹟辦事處及保良局歷史博物館合辦。
September 3, 2022
Public Lecture: Grand Old Families of Hong Kong: Porcelain Photos at Kwan Ti Hall, Po Leung Kuk
Speaker: Dr Joseph Ting (Adjunct Professor, Department of History, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Jointly organised by Antiquities and Monuments Office and Po Leung Kuk Museum.
撮要:
保良局關帝廳堪稱二十世紀的香港名人堂,廳內瓷相中的人物都是曾於1930年代大額捐助保良局籌建中座大樓的善長,包羅當年叱吒香港各界的名門望族。講座將簡述當中幾個家族和他們的傳奇故事,回顧他們對香港社會的影響與貢獻。
Abstract:
Kwan Ti Hall of Po Leung Kuk can be regarded as a Hall of Fame of Hong Kong’s grand old families in the 20th century. The people shown in the porcelain photos of the Hall are the generous donors who contributed greatly to the construction of the Main Building of Po Leung Kuk in the 1930s. They were also the elites who exerted great influence in different sectors of Hong Kong during the era. The talk will introduce the legendary stories of the selected grand old families, reviewing their influences and philanthropic contributions in Hong Kong.
Ng Wah (伍華, 1874-1950) –
Leading Contractor, Developer of Pedder Building and Philanthropist
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伍華
伍華(1874年—1950年),香港建築商,於香港出生,祖籍為廣東台山,其約於1920年代創辦的生泰建築公司承造了多個政府和私人建築工程。他亦曾任保良局和東華醫院總理。其子為曾任市政局議員的伍秉堅。
伍華當初在海軍船塢擔任工人領班,後來創辦生泰建築公司承造建築工程。省港大罷工期間,他調動旗下七百名工人替政府辦事,甚得時任香港總督金文泰歡心。香港保衛戰期間,他同樣調動工人幫助搬運政府物資。香港日佔時期,伍華獲委任為以周壽臣為首的華民各界協議會的委員。
主要作品
油麻地避風塘
瑪麗醫院宿舍
赤柱監獄
皇后戲院
聖士提反書院
北角發電廠
大潭篤水塘
德士古填海工程
畢打行
青山禪院「香海名山牌樓」
以其命名的事物
天主教伍華中學:位於新蒲崗
天主教伍華小學:位於新蒲崗
伍華堂:位於聖士提反書院,為香港三級歷史建築
Ng Wah (伍華, 1874-1950) – Leading Contractor, Developer of Pedder Building and Philanthropist
Ng Wah and his Projects
A native of Toishan in Guangdong province but born in Hong Kong, Ng Wah started out as a foreman in the Royal Navy Shipyard in HK and founded Sang Tai & Co (生泰建築), which by the early 1920s had become one of the leading building contractors in Hong Kong.
Sang Tai was responsible for the construction of many important public and private projects in the early 20th century. Some of the public projects completed by Sang Tai in chronological order included Yau Ma Tei Shelter (completed in 1916), Tai Tam Tuk Reservoir (completed in 1917), Shing Mun Reservoir (1925-27), the Aberdeen Reservoirs (completed in 1931), the Queen Mary Hospital and Stanley Prison (the last two were both completed in 1937). HK government reports before the War also disclosed that Ng Wah won the $50202 contract for the construction of a service reservoir in North Point in 1929 while his Sang Tai & Co won the tender for the construction of No. 7 Police Station in 1940.
Private sector projects completed by Sang Tai include North Point Power Station of HK Electric (1913-1919, re-developed into City Garden by Cheung Kong in the 1980s), St Stephen’s College’s Stanley campus (1928-30) and the Heung Hoi Ming Shan Memorial Archway in Castle Peak (completed in 1929 and sponsored by 19 leading Chinese community leaders at the time including Shouson Chow, Robert Kotewall, Tso Seen-wan, Fung Ping-shan, Tang Chi-ngong, Chau Tsun-nin and Ng Wah himself).
Ng Wah was also involved in property development and the two most prominent projects he was involved with were the Pedder Building (畢打行) at 12 Pedder Street in Central and the nearby Queen’s Theatre, both of which he built in around 1924. Based on the 1954 essay on the history of the HK construction industry written by his fellow HK construction industry pioneer Tam Shiu-hong (see article), Ng Wah formed a partnership with Ma Tsui-chiu (馬敘朝, 1878-1959) and So Shek-chung (蘇石鍾) and acquired the site of the former Court House and GPO buildings (Inland Lot 2316 and 2319) in Central in 1921 where he built the Palmer & Turner designed Art Deco style Pedder Building and the Queen’s Theatre. Ng acquired the Pedder Building from So in 1926 and was listed as its proprietor. While the building was known as the home of Shanghai Tang in recent years, its tenants in the earlier decades included American President Lines and the German trading firm of Jebsen. Ng’s family owned the building until 1962 when it was sold to Tai Kee Leong Co Ltd (泰記隆, incorporated in 1957, dissolved in 1979) controlled by Henry Fok Ying-tung. Designated as a Grade II historical building in 1981, the Pedder Building is the last surviving pre-WWII building on Pedder Street in Central. Queen’s Theater was acquired by the Luk Hoi Tung group and re-developed as Luk Hoi Tung Building (with the second-generation Queen’s Theatre inside) in 1961 and again as LHT Tower in 2007.
Ng Wah was very active in community service during his lifetime and served as director of the Tung Wah Hospital, Alice Memorial Hospital and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and chairman of Po Leung Kuk (1934-35), Pok Oi Hospital and the HK Building Contractors Association (1936-37, served as permanent supervisor afterwards). He was given the vital task of maintaining food supplies through Tung Wah Hospital by the colonial administration during the Canton-HK strike of 1925-26 and was appointed vice chairman of the Committee for Public Dispensaries, Central district in 1932. For his community service, Ng Wah was appointed an unofficial Justice of the Peace (his name first appeared on the list in 1933). During the Japanese occupation (1941-45), he was a member of the Chinese Cooperative Council which was formed in 1942 and headed by Shouson Chow. On October 16, 1950, Ng Wah died at the age of 76 in his residence at 1 Ning Yeung Terrace in the Mid-Levels.
Descendants and Philanthropy
Mrs. Ng Wah (fifth from the left) presenting a HK$150,000 check to Wong Wan-tin (sixth from the left), the chair of the Buddhist Hospital construction committee in 1967 while her family looked on (KSDN, 1967-10-21)
Sang Tai & Co continued to operate after Ng Wah’s death and was managed by Ng Hor (伍賀), who was director of the HKBCA in the 1950s. While the firm was levelling a hill slope for the construction of the Lee Cheng Uk resettlement estate in 1955, its crew uncovered the Han dynasty tomb which became the Lee Cheng Uk Han Tomb Museum. Over time, Sang Tai had faded into history but P.K. Ng & Associates, the architectural design and structural engineering practice started by Ng Wah’s son Peter Ping-Kin Ng (伍秉堅, 1929-2013) in 1957 remains a key player in the HK construction industry counting many important clients such as HK Housing Authority, MTR and Cheung Kong.
Peter received his B.Arch and MSc in civil engineering from the University of Illinois before returning to HK to start his own architectural firm. He served as president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce in 1962 and member of the Urban Council for a decade (1966-76) during which he was chairman of its Food and Food Premises Select Committee. He was also involved with the St John’s Ambulance Brigade and served as a non-executive director of Liu Chong Hing Investment and vice chairman of Lam Soon Food Industries, the maker of Knife brand cooking oil for decades.
Aside from Peter, Ng Wah’s other sons include Ng Kwing-tong (伍炯堂) and Ng Ping-keun (伍丙乾,1934-), a graduate of McGill and University of Wisconsin who was engineer with Yukon Enterprises (HK Album, 1967). One of Ng Wah’s daughters Rita Ng Kei-ching (伍奇貞) was an eye doctor and she and her husband Dr. Tseung Ying-hung (蔣英熊) were both graduates of the HKU School of Medicine.
Today, Ng Wah’s name is largely memorialized by his family’s generous philanthropy. In 1967, Ng Wah’s widow Cheng Chi-sheung (鄭滋湘) and her children donated HK$150,000 towards the construction of the HK Buddhist Hospital. In 1968, the family contributed to the Catholic Secondary School and Catholic Primary School in San Po Kong and as a result, the schools were renamed Ng Wah Catholic Secondary School (天主教伍華中學) and Ng Wah Catholic Primary School in memory of Ng Wah. In 1970, the Ng Wah Hall was opened at St. Stephen’s College.