Walvick Cottage [????-????]

Submitted by jamesho on Sat, 07/10/2021 - 23:40
Current condition
Demolished / No longer exists

WALVICK COTTAGE

WALVICK COTTAGE Aerial Photos 1963
{C}WALVICK COTTAGE Aerial Photos 1963, by Crown Lands & Survey Office{C}
WALVICK COTTAGE and RAF OFFICERS MESS.png
{C}WALVICK COTTAGE and RAF OFFICERS MESS.png, by Crown Lands & Survey Office{C}

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1963
1960s
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Can someone explain where the prefix  ‘RAF’ in ‘RAF Walvick Cottage’ originates from?

It does not appear in any military sites list posted on or linked to Gwulo.

The booklet ‘The History of RAF Kai Tak 1927-1972’ has no mention of it.

While the building was directly below and in front of the elevated site of the RAF Officers quarters, it was apparently a private property, one brief pre-war reference has it as “the Dutchman’s garden”.

Are there any official property references or documentation for this place showing it to having been owned or leased by the Royal Air Force?

Gwulo readers with RAF backgrounds appear not to have referenced it.

Walvick Cottage was also known as the “Red House” as indicated here  in the RAF  Kai Tak Station Block Plan in 1966.

A building used by the RAF but does not appear to have had the prefix “RAF” in the building’s name.