This photo shows the old Causeway Bay Typhoon shelter. It's attributed to 1962, but the date should be 1955 or 1956. The Typhoon shelter was reclamed 1956/57 to become Victoria Park (opened 1957). Date confirmed. see David's comment below.
The rounded house right hand side on the hill (at the bend of Tai Hang Road) is Grandview Mansion, first occupied 1/1955.
Below it, a house on a round structure is under construction, probably built on the site of the mystery building.
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1962
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Typhoon shelter
Hi Klaus, a couple of clues show this is was taken after Victoria Park had been reclaimed. First is the big, box-like building at centre-left. It was the Causeway Bay Magistracy and was built after the park. Also at the base of that building there's a red & cream coloured structure that was the spectators' seating at the swimming pool in the park:
Cavendish Heights
The three taller buildings top right are Cavendish Heights, in Jardines Lookout, completed in late 1959. Initially there were just three blocks (the one far right was known as "The Front Block") but, in circa 1962/63, a fourth block was added, which we always called "The New Block", even when much later, in the mid-1970s, more blocks of a different design were built. The New Block is not completed in this photo (though glimpses of scaffolding are possibly visible to the left of The Front Block), so it must have been taken in the very early 1960s.
Re: where 'Tai Hang' reached the sea
Hi There,
The outlet as seen is where 'Tai Hang' reached the sea, covered, under Victoria Park. The Outlook could still be seen today.
T