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Hong Yuen (康園) [1950-1989]

Submitted by philk on Tue, 11/19/2024 - 10:47

According to wiki: "There were two bungalows in Hong Yuen. In 1952, it was leased to the London Missionary Society. In 1959, the new owner renamed the bungalows Hong Yuen. In 1965, it was leased to the Home of Loving Faithfulness  established by Valerie Conibear and Wendy Blackmur. The two British ladies were originally nurses at the Fanling Babies Home*.

Sui Sing Shu Sut (瑞勝書室) [c.1920-1989]

Submitted by philk on Wed, 11/13/2024 - 18:23

Suisheng Study Room - owned by Fung Kei-chuk, was a two-story traditional Chinese-style blue brick building that became the office building of Lianhe Company after the war.

In the 1950s, the mansion was sublet to about 40 tenants. Well-known former tenants include: columnist Li Yansheng (李焰生), calligrapher Lui Tai (呂媞), Hong Kong football team legend, Kwok Ka-ming (郭家明).

On Lok Tsuen

Submitted by philk on Wed, 11/13/2024 - 16:36

I'm currently in the process of converting some of the locations identified on this Chinese wiki page (hat tip to Aldi for tracking it down in the first place) into places on the Gwulo map. If anyone knows of any photographs that show the various places logged, it would be great if we could include them on Gwulo. At the moment I am having to settle for outline maps and aerial images.

Phil

Places so far:

Sai Ho Villa (西河别墅) [1920-1985]

Submitted by philk on Wed, 11/13/2024 - 15:38

Also referred to as "Sai Ho Pit Shui" on maps. This property was owned by the founder of Kwong Sang Hong (廣生行), Lam Sau-ting. Although most of the property was demolished in the mid-80s to make way for some metal warehouses, part of the original villa building was preserved until the mid-2010s. The whole site was eventually redeveloped in 2020 and rebuilt into a permanent warehouse.

Fanling Babies' Home [1940-1966]

Submitted by Aldi on Wed, 11/06/2024 - 16:24

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

Li Garden (李園) [1920-1976]

Submitted by philk on Tue, 10/02/2018 - 00:39

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.