Muk Min Ha Tsuen (1st location) [????-????]

Submitted by Admin on Thu, 09/28/2023 - 10:33
Current condition
Demolished / No longer exists

Muk Min Ha was one of the original villages in the  Tsuen Wan Area. It can be seen on the 1952 map.

When the area was redeveloped to create the Tsuen Wan new town, the village was relocated to a new site to the north of this original site, see https://gwulo.com/node/59648


Extracts from the Cultural Heritage Impacts section of the EIA for the Tsuen Wan Bypass:

Tsuen Wan Area in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
11.4.5          Most of the larger villages near the coast in the Tsuen Wan area such as Sam Tung Uk, Muk Min Ha and Kwan Mun Hau seem mostly to have been established in the early eighteenth century. The reclamation of the eastern mudflats was probably undertaken in the middle eighteenth century. Two villages stand on this reclamation - Hoi Pa and Yeung Uk (this latter village was also called Sha Tsui) - and date from as soon as the reclamation was finished, i.e. the middle eighteenth century. Shortly after the establishment of Hoi Pa (certainly before the end of the eighteenth century), a market to serve the district was established. It consisted of a row of shops built along the sea-wall. The top of the sea-wall (which was an earthen bank) acted as a street, and the shops stretched back from this footpath, supported on stilts. In front of the market was a pier, which was the normal landing-place for the district.

 11.4.28      Development of the New Town, however, has led to the disappearance of most of the area's old villages. Pak Tin Pai, Chai Wan Kok, Muk Min Ha, Kwan Mun Hau, Yeung Uk, and Ha Kwai Chung have all totally disappeared, their villagers having been resited to new villages along the northern edge of the town. Nothing survives of the old Market, either. A few houses survive, restored as Monuments, at Hoi Pa, set rather forlornly in a public park which covers the site of the rest of the old village. The main part of the village of Sam Tung Uk survives, restored and used as a Museum. Yau Kam Tau, Lo Wai, and Sheung Kwai Chung survive as village communities.

 11.5.3          The cultural and historical heritage of Tsuen Wan is concentrated primarily in those areas which were developed before 1959, and secondarily in the New Town Development areas developed in and after 1959. The primary area is thus all on that land which existed before the 1959 reclamation, and is centred on the old villages of that area. As can be seen from Figure 11-1, the Tsuen Wan Road is located a very long way from any of these areas. The villages of Chai Wan Kok, Pak Tin Pai, Muk Min Ha, Yeung Uk, Kwan Mun Ha and Ha Kwai Chung, together with the old Market, have all been utterly destroyed, and their sites, and all the land close to them, have been totally destroyed. The sites have been dug out, and new roads and multi-storey development Projects have been built over them. There remains absolutely nothing of the slightest cultural or historical heritage value in any of these village areas.