Thanks to Annemarie Evans for inviting me on to her weekly radio show, Hong Kong Heritage. We started off walking from Lok Fu to San Po Kong, exploring some of the historic sites we passed along the route. Then we finished up at Bleak House Books, our local English-language bookstore, where we sat and looked at some of the photos and stories in my new book.
You can listen to the recording of the show at:
https://www.rthk.hk/radio/radio3/programme/hongkongheritage/episode/720228
And below I'll include links to more information about the topics we discussed, with the time as it is shown on the podcast player:
- 01:20 Checkerboard Hill
1974 Checkerboard Hill, by eternal1966e - 02:20 Chinese Christian Cemetery, Kowloon
- 02:30 The hill behind the pre-WW2 Kowloon Walled City
1920s Kowloon Walled City, by Moddsey - 03:15 Stone Houses
Stone Houses Family Garden (石屋家園), by Philk - 04:50 Hau Wong Temple
- 05:30 The post-WW2 Kowloon Walled City
Kowloon Walled City, by Andrew Suddaby - 06:45 Nga Tsin Wai village
- 09:40 The layout of the airfield after the Japanese expansion in WW2
- 12:40 Tai Shing Street and the extension of the old runway
Kai Tak, by Admin - 13:50 Bleak House Books - directions to find them
- 14:10 Volume 4 of Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell