The Fanling Babies’ Home really had its origins in 1936 when young missionary Miss Mildred Dibden returned to Hong Kong from England and took in her first abandoned baby in Tsimshatsui. She had first gone out to Hong Kong in 1931 with the BCMS, but had been repatriated due to a severe attack of malaria, which nearly too
This is the current address for the house that is featured in the image below. The plot is now occupied by the carpark for the "Fanling Industrial Centre".
From wiki: Owned by Li Sui-shek and built in 1920. The main building of Li Garden was a two-story Chinese and Western-style building with a large lawn in front of the house. There was an octagonal lotus pond across the garden to the north containing a stone bridge leading to the small island in the center of the pond which contained a two-story folly. From the late 1950s, several Cantonese films were filmed there incl.
Also known as Ao Garden (鰲園), this mansion was constructed in 1928 by Lai Yue-hing, a returned overseas Chinese from Chile. The building was a two-story Western-style villa with a fountain in front and two adjacent Chinese-style bungalows next to it.
In 1940 the mansion was rented by Mildred Dibden as the Fanling Babies Home until 1966 when the operation was moved to Tai Po.
On Lok Tsuen - locally known for some large mansions and often used as a film location. Redeveloped into an industrial estate in the mid-90s
I wonder if anyone has any old pictures of the various mansions/villas that once made up On Lok Tsuen in Fanling. These days the area is an industrial/factory estate but I keep seeing old films that were shot in some of the rather elegant homes that were built here.