Mui Wo salt pans

Thanks for the HK Map Service website namussi.

I found:

http://lib.hku.hk/hkspc/pathfinders/HK%20Old%20Maps.pdf

which has details of about 20 RAF aerial survey maps, whih are not I think available online. These show different areas of Hong Kong and were taken in 1924-1925 and published in 1945 and 1949.

None appear to be of Mui Wo/Silvermine Bay. However I am not sure where Tung Kwu (#20) or "Wan-hsia" (#30) are.

Thanks again namussi. I had been made aware of this article and included it in the Query and Answer section of The Industrial History of Hong Kong Group newsletter 6 as shown, shortened, below:

A reader has asked whether there were salt pans in Mui Wo around the time of WW2 and whether RAF aerial photographs he had heard about, but not seen, indicated this...Frank Watson has found that in a 2005 interview with the then 82 year-old Mui Wo resident Wong Chau-fuk, Mr Wong states “The land beside the pier and the bus stop was originally the sea….there were some businessmen who set up a salt field nearby, but water kept seeping up out of the ground and the salt wouldn’t crystallize. I remember working there with my dad. After the salt field closed we went back to farming.” Mr Wong was born around 1923, so it looks as if this suggestion is correct. However, more conclusive evidence is needed. A map showing Mui Wo around the end of WW2?

http://hk.asia-city.com/city-living/article/mui-wo-rural-committees-wong-chau-fuk

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