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Looking north-east from the Hok Yuen street-Chatham road junction . It shows the side of chatham garden flat 漆咸大廈 on Hok Yuen street. The wall on the right is that of the police station. It was a "government workers flat" demolished only around 2009. Now it is occupied by the Chatham Gate.
Civil servants' cooperative building societies belong to an early welfare system for civil servants. Starting in the 1950s, government sold land parcels at one third of market price to the Coops. Civil servants became the property owners.Government also gave them loans for payments of the land price and construction costs. It was terminated in the middle of 1980s. It resulted in 238 Coops and 5000 units. Chatham Garden was one of them.
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1970s
1983
1983
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demolition 2009
air view of chatham garden flat in 2009. The flat is on the left undergoing demolition to make way for Chatham Gate.