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After the 1953 fire in the Shek Kip Mei wooden house area, the government built 14 seven-storey resettlement buildings in the area, named Tai Hang East Estate. The Salvation Army also seized the opportunity to go there to preach and carry out services. Initially, it ran a primary school on the rooftop of the resettlement building, and later, with government land allocation, a center was built next to the estate in 1959.
The old building of the centre faces Tai Hang East Estate, is rectangular, and has three storeys high.
.........in 1969, a new curved wing was added at the rear.
Source and further reading here.
Photos that show this Place
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1974
Comments
Tai Hang Tung squatter fire
The description from the original website is inaccurate, about the causation and details of the place.
The host of the blog may have mixed the Shek Kip Mei fire (which luckily did not spread to Kowloon Tsai on the east aross the hill) with the Tang Hang Tung fire. The latter was on 1954. As for Shek Kip Mei resettlement, there had been total 29 six to seven-storey blocks built around the location. Details of the fire at Tai Hang Tung squatter could be viewed under headlines of China Mail, 1954-7-23 on p.1.
Maybe the host of that website is more interested in the walks and views now, less concerned on specific historical details.
One more photo about the 1954 Tai Hang Tung fire here.