Thank you “danielwettling” for submitting, which for me was a surprisingly nostalgic 1916 view of Stanley. I remember how, some 50 years after this scene was captured, the beach and sheltered foreshore situated in the mid-ground was occupied by the Stanley Village ship yard and slipway; and looking across Chek Chue Wan towards Ma Hang there was a small, flattish, semi-rural area behind the Tin Hau Temple, which used to be referred to as Far East Farm. I lived there throughout 1970 and into 1971 in a somewhat spartan bungalow that I rented off the landlady, Ga Tai. My neighbour, who lived in similar circumstances a little further up the Chung Hom Kok hillside was popularly known as “Fred Brown”, a charming, elderly, perhaps Scandinavian, gentleman and local identity who, in the somewhat limited span of my memories, lived his own unique Stanley lifestyle throughout the late 1950’s, 1960’s, and early 1970’s.
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“Fred Brown” and Far East Farm
Thank you “danielwettling” for submitting, which for me was a surprisingly nostalgic 1916 view of Stanley. I remember how, some 50 years after this scene was captured, the beach and sheltered foreshore situated in the mid-ground was occupied by the Stanley Village ship yard and slipway; and looking across Chek Chue Wan towards Ma Hang there was a small, flattish, semi-rural area behind the Tin Hau Temple, which used to be referred to as Far East Farm. I lived there throughout 1970 and into 1971 in a somewhat spartan bungalow that I rented off the landlady, Ga Tai. My neighbour, who lived in similar circumstances a little further up the Chung Hom Kok hillside was popularly known as “Fred Brown”, a charming, elderly, perhaps Scandinavian, gentleman and local identity who, in the somewhat limited span of my memories, lived his own unique Stanley lifestyle throughout the late 1950’s, 1960’s, and early 1970’s.
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