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Demolished / No longer exists
Date completed
Hi there,
I am uncertain which YMCA was Booth talking about in this chapter, but other than the one in Tsimshatsui, there was this old YMCA house at this location. It was an old manor house with fences, arches and a dome if I'm not mistaken. But it was gone after the rebuilt about two decades ago.
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"YMCA Back In Its Own…
"YMCA Back In Its Own Building
The Chinese YMCA has its building back again after six-and-a-half years.
No. 23, Waterloo Road, Kowloon, has been derequisitioned and handed back to the organisation.
The building was taken over by the Japanese. At the war’s end it was requisitioned by the Military Government and turned into a Forces’ Canteen, operated by the Salvation Army.
Then it became a police training school.
On Monday, Chinese YMCA President, Mr. Lam Chi-fung, accepted the building from the Government.
He thanked the Pui Ching Middle School, the Chinese Christian Church, the Swatow Baptist Churches of Kowloon City and Lock Road, and the Hill Wood Road Baptist Church, for providing accommodation for the Chinese YMCA during the six-and-a-half years."
Source: The China Mail, page 3, 16th June 1948