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As one enters Harlech Road on the walk round the Peak from the Upper Peak Tram Station, one will notice on the right a "boxy" cable hut with a painted black door that is bolted shut. The cable hut is located diagonally opposite the Peak Cafe and is noticeable in photographs from the 1930s.
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Photos that show this Place
1933
1930s
Comments
cable hut
This could be a telephone junction box, several were around both Kowloon and HK Island. They had three letter designations starting with K in Kowloon and H on the island.
Peter Kelly
Re: Cable Hut
Thank you for your comment. May be related to the provision of telephone lines to the Peak in the early days. Explanation given to a similar structure at: https://gwulo.com/media/43422
There are only two photos from the 1930s that show the "box". The box is marked as a "cable hut" on maps from 1955. I note around the same period an old style telephone booth had been provided nearer to the junction opposite the Upper Peak Tram Station.
Cable Hut
If It's what I suggested, it was part of the British military presence. The military telephone cable infrastructure was run from the Force Exchange, roughly where Victoria Gardens are now. Two other controlling exchanges were sited far up in what was The New Territories with a second control at Little Sai Wan. A busy telephone world in those days with both UK personnel and Hong Kong military signalers maintaining the exchanges and outlying cable boxes.
Fun days for all those involved.
Peter Kelly (circa 1964)