1960s taiwan rd

Tue, 09/26/2023 - 04:04

1960s looking south and east :
Tai Wan rd  and Green island cement work at bottom.
On the left the Holy Carpenter Prevocational School  聖匠職業訓練學校 established in 1965. Renamed SKH Holy Carpenter secondary school in 2002 which still exists today. Further  left and behind it is the St Marys church. We can also see the crane of Whampoa dockyard. At the top left corner roof of block 3 of the Tai Wan Shan estate. (see 1965 map https://gwulo.com/media/46815). On the right a square with a lot of squatter hut businesses and also a factory. There are trucks unloading goods.

A 1968 areal picture shows how that area looked like:

https://gwulo.com/media/41027/zoom

Date picture taken
1960s