Where was this taken?

Tue, 09/23/2014 - 07:13

Jack Miller sent in this lovely sharp photo, and writes:

I took this photo in 1959 and forgot where I was in Hong Kong. I think it might have been taken from up on Victoria Peak and I don't know what section of Hong Kong it overlooks.

Can you help me locate the part of the city I was in?

Date picture taken
1959

Comments

Hi,

I've only just found this photograph!  Yes, the others have identified it correctly.  The photograph was probably taken from the Tai Tam road, above the resettlement camp at Chai Wan.  A third of the way down on the right hand side you can see the buildings of R.A.F. Little Sai Wan, with the old camp road (now the Dragon Trail) winding up the hillside.  The huge housing complex of Siu Sai Wan was built in that bay in the years following the demolition of the R.A.F. camp in late 1987 and early 1988.  The shoreline in 2017 runs from where you can just make out a tall wireless mast at the foot of the Point  to somewhere about half way up the left side of the photograph.

Andrew