Argyle Street Camp Nos. 3 & 4 / Argyle Street Detention Centre (Vietnamese refugee camp) [c.1950-????]

The eastern part of this ground was previously the internment camp / POW camp that was built in 1939. Later aerial photos show that the old huts from that camp continued to be used in the new Army Camp. The western section next to Kowloon Hospital was originally empty land, but later photos show Nissen huts were erected there.

In the late 1970s / early 1980s the site was used to house Vietnamese refugees.

Timeline:

• c. 1950. British Army camp.
  • The 1950 list of Military Installations Closed Areas has the earliest mention I've seen of it being used by the British armed forces:
    • Argyle Street Camp Nos. 3 & 4
    • 577037
    • Area on North side of Argyle Street, bounded by Argyle Street, Leven Road, Sheung Yan Road, and a barbed wire fence from Sheung Yan Road to Argyle Street. (Leven Road has since been renamed to Lomond Road, and Sheung Yan Road no longer exists.)
• 1970s?. The Army no longer require the camp and the land is handed back to the government.
• 1979. The site is used to house 20,000 of the Vietnamese refugees who were arriving by sea. It was known as the Argyle Street Detention Centre. (Source: SCMP via Wikipedia)
• 19??: The Vietnamese refugee camp is closed
• 1992: Government L.N. 140 of 1992 '... removes Argyle Street Detention Centre from the list of places designated as detention centres ...'
• ????: The site is re-developed.