- From
- Darwin, Northern Territory
- Summary
Wing Cheong Sing was a tailor and draper's business located in Darwin's Chinatown, Northern Territory. A photograph caption suggests it was probably operated by the Chin clan (Loong Fung Chin). Another caption suggests Chin Mee Leung managed it at least c1905.
The business' name is also mentioned in a poem written by Ernestine Hill about Darwin in The Great Australian Loneliness.
Related Subjects
Published Resources
Books
- Hill, Ernestine, The Great Australian Loneliness, Imprint Travel edition edn, Angus and Robertson, North Ryde, NSW, 1991 (1940). Details
See also
- Stone, Shane and Steele, Roger, 'Progress of the Chinese community of the Northern Territory', Northern Perspective, vol. 18, no. 1, 1995, pp. 28-37. Details
Images
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- Title
- Bennett Street showing Wing Cheong Sing
- Type
- Photograph
- Place
- Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Bennett Street
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- Title
- Bennett Streetscape showing tailors, Wing Cheong Sing
- Type
- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1901 - c. 1904
- Place
- Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Bennett Street
- Details
See also
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- Title
- Gathering at the Residency
- Type
- Photograph
- Date
- 1905
- Place
- Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Esplanade
- Details
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- Title
- Loong Fung Chin family
- Type
- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1902 - c. 1906
- Place
- Australia - Northern Territory?
- Details
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- Title
- Unidentified Residency gathering
- Type
- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1910 - c. 1920
- Place
- Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
- Details
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- Unidentified Residency gathering 2
- Type
- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1910 - c. 1920
- Place
- Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
- Details
Sources used to compile this entry: Stone, Shane and Steele, Roger, 'Progress of the Chinese community of the Northern Territory', Northern Perspective, vol. 18, no. 1, 1995, pp. 28-37; Based on information in portrait of Loong Fung Chin family and photograph of Chinatown streetscape.
Created: 25 August 2004, Last modified: 14 December 2006
