Emma Avenue [????- ]

Submitted by philk on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 13:58
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20081128 010 Emma Avenue (on the right) as seen from Soares Ave. This is also one of the corners of the triangular plot which housed the pro-Communist school. The Fourseas would have looked over the road about 100 metres further up - you can see the windows from the Metropark Hotel Kowloon facing the camera to the left of the bamboo scaffolding.

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Jetflyresq (not verified)
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Mon, 11/23/2009 - 08:21

Communist school must have been located on Emma Avenue which was replaced by Wing Ying Mansions is my guess. I attended tutoring sessions at Wing Ying Mansions in the 60's during my primary school days.  So the Communist School was gone by the mid 60's.  To the left of the above picture and half way between Emma and Julia was the famous Mui Lung Tseng Restaurant in the 60's and early 70's where the yau ja gwai, chi fan (sticky rice with pork sung & yau ja gwai stuffed inside), dau jeung (soy milk) and dai bang were the best in town.

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Peter Chan (not verified)
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Fri, 02/11/2011 - 05:40

On the contrary it was a pro-Taiwan (secondary) school which had its lessons conducted in Chinese (Cantonese).

I knew about that because that school was where my late mom graduated in 1957.

Peter - many thanks for the information.

I described the school as Pro-Communist because this is how it is described in Martin Booth's "Gwei Lo/Goldenboy" book (of which this place is part of).

You can see the entirety of that mapping project from this starting point:

http://gwulo.com/martin-booth-golden-boy-gweilo

Cheers, Phil

 

Hi Peter

Booth mentions the school and its triangular plot in Chapter 5, so you will find the reference to the plot under that link. However, you may also find Chapter 3 interesting because that was the part of the book when his family first moved to the Fourseas and it also contains many more references to nearby locations. It would be interesting to hear of any memories you have which can add further 'colour' to the information we have put there (as well as inaccuracies of course).

Cheers, Phil