Kai Tak - Japanese Operations Building on a Mound [c.1944-c.1959]

Submitted by moddsey on Mon, 01/20/2020 - 13:54
Current condition
Demolished / No longer exists
Date completed
(Year is approximate.)
Date closed / demolished
(Year is approximate.)

Possibly used by the Japanese as an Operations Building or Control Tower during 1944-1945. The structure appears to have survived for at least 10 years after the Japanese surrender.

Photos that show this Place

1945 Kai Tak - Possible Location of Control Tower Used by the Japanese
1945
Kai Tak wartime Japanese control tower location-1945
1945
Japanese built structure-possibly a control tower-operations blockhouse
1945
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Comments

Suggest that the end date would be nearer the years of the overall site clearance for the new  runway leading out to sea rather than 1960.

Possibly 1957 or 58

Greetings.  To Good Hope School foothill until spring 1959, my city bus travelled by this site.  The building was definitely visible in 1957 and at least part of 1958.  The building looked completely deserted.  If its demolition took place in late 1958 or early 1959, I would have noticed it; however, I have no clear memory of such.  Regards,  Peter

Photographs taken from the air or from Kowlon Peak show the now out use runway ripped up fairly quickly after the new runway was brought into use during September1958 and government wooden hut housing and multi-storey resettlement estates springing up either side of the main road where it curves past the mound on which the 'Japanese' building stood. In some images the mound was still there but not the building. So perhaps 1959 saw its demise?