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unusual facts about Sugar refinery


Hawaii overprint note

Progress on the destruction was slow, and pressed with time, the bigger furnaces of the Aiea Sugar Mill were requisitioned to help burn the currency.



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Heinrich Zimmermann

He spent time working at this in Geneva, Lyons and Paris before he arrived in London in 1776 where, after a short period of working in a sugar refinery, he joined HMS Discovery as an able seaman on 12 March of that year for James Cook's third voyage to the Pacific.

Lewin's Mead

In the eighteenth century a Unitarian chapel, the Lewin's Mead Unitarian meeting house, designed by William Blackburn, was built adjacent to the sugar refinery.

TaiKoo Place

The current site of TaiKoo Place was previously the Taikoo Sugar Refinery and the dockyard.

Vladislav Vančura

He was born on June 26, 1891 in Háj near Opava in Austrian Silesia (today the Czech Republic), of an old non-Catholic nobility family; his parents were Václav Vojtěch Vančura, born 1856 in Čáslav, Evangelical, Director of sugar refinery in Háj and Marie Svobodová, Catholic, born 1863 in Kluky near Čáslav.