HSBC tower blocks at Nga Tsin Wai Rd [c.1950-c.1957]

Submitted by Admin on Sun, 04/05/2015 - 13:21
Current condition
Demolished / No longer exists
Date completed
(Day, Month, & Year are approximate.)
Date closed / demolished
(Day, Month, & Year are approximate.)

Position is approximate.

They're marked "3 flats to be moved" on this photo:

Kai Tak Airport development-hill clearance profiles.jpg
Kai Tak Airport development-hill clearance profiles.jpg, by IDJ

IDJ notes:

These belonged to HSBC and were demolished along with the adjacent hillsides for the new runway at Kai Tak. HSBC were given alternative land which may have been at Beacon Hill as I seem to recall Luso Apartments in Warwick Road was an HSBC staff complex in the 1960-70s. 

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Kowloon-presumably the flats that had to be demolished to make way for Kai Tak's new runway-19-04-1949
1949
gwulo-A430 Kowloon tower blocks.jpg
1951
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China Mail 16 July 1957

'What were once hills behind the former HSBC flats at the end of College Road have now become practically flat. The hills are expected to be levelled by end of December and the Bank flats will be pulled down and the whole area will become one vast playing field.'