Kowloon Tong Garden City - Planned site -1924

This photograph was published in the October 1924 edition of The Far Eastern Review. It shows the site of the then planned Kowloon Tong housing scheme for initially 56 upmarket houses to be constructed at this location .Each house was to have its own garden.

The project was the dream of Mr Montague Ede who had recently retired as General Manager of the  Union Assurance Society of Hong Kong.  Midway up the photograph the earth embankment of the Kowloon Canton  Railway track can be observed running from left to right. Running parallel to and just below this embankment, a pathway is visible which provides access to  the vegetable farming plots in the foreground. This path is probably the approximate position of the today’s Cumberland Road.