Central, 'Rogues' Alley

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 19:06

I've never been sure whether this name was in general use but that's how it was described to me.

Date picture taken
1958
Author(s)

Comments

Greetings!  As some, if not all vendors, do not have licence or occupation permit, rouge is a fairly accurate description.  In my childhood time, elders used 橫巷 (off-shoot alley)
and 橫街 (off-shoot street) to call these places because they did not have known address except that they were adjacent to some known streets.  Regards,  Peter   

Hi There,

The street was full of stalls and shops with open air dranage just a bit off from the middle.  Likely one of those side streets between Des Voeux and Queen's Road Central and between Padder and Wing Wo Streets. 

There was quite a load of them that may fit the condition, with two more famous ones still with stalls lineing them up:  the Lei Yuen Streets, East & West.

Can't identify exactly which street was though.

T