Boat dwellers at Staunton Creek, c.1967 (2)

Photo source: ETH Library Zurich, Image Archive / Com_LC0143-002-012 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Original title: Hong Kong by day. Taken by Comet Photo AG (Zürich). Dating 1967-1971.

 

Staunton Creek looking east. See here for another view and information about the factory buildings in the top right.

This photo and the one linked above was likely taken in about 1967, right before land reclamation began to turn Staunton Creek into a nullah in 1968. Most boat dwellers lived there were resettled to Shek Pai Wan Resettlement Estate at Aberdeen between 1966-1968. Among the settlers includes the one millionth resident of Hong Kong's public housing estates, a six years old girl Jenny Fung Kwai-chun (馮桂珍), who received her new home's key from the Governor, Sir David Trench.


References:
"Sir David Meets A Shy But Happy Girl In Her New Home", South China Morning Post, October 27, 1967, p.6

"Aberdeen Shek Pai Wan Resettlement Estate officially opened today by the Governor, personally presenting the door key to the one-millionth resident" (香港仔石排灣新區今由港督主持揭幕 親向第一百萬名居民送門匙), The Kung Sheung Evening News (工商晚報), October 26, 1967, p.4

 

Date picture taken
1967 (year is approximate)