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Oh boy!
A photo got posted on Gwulo showing a building on the Peak that I don't ever remember seeing before. And when you are talking about The Peak before 1938, that's pretty impressive. After all, I'm the gal who penned the page … “First Houses on the Peak”.
But what brought a smile to my face, and a spring in my step was that now, once again, it was time for a visit to … drumroll please … the “Public Records Office” in Kwun Tong.
Where ? That's what I thought the first time I had to hunt it down.
Over the next few months, I will document things like, the joy of a full American breakfast at McDonald's (at the housing estate next-door to the PRO) … while you wait for the documents you requested to be brought from some magical place inside the PRO building to the “searchers room”.
As well as a question I've never properly answered, “the Kwun Tong Public Swimming Pool is right across the street. Why don't I ever bring my swimsuit?”
So it all began with this photo of a postcard… and ended with a beautiful 1893 lease diagram from the PRO … from a surrendered Crown Lease (counterpart) of Rural Building Lot 80.
(doesn't it just give you goosebumps to hear all these nerdly history phrases)
… to be continued …
