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Hi there,
I'm trying to find a detailed map of Hong Kong before land reclaimation began. I've been to the government maps office and they couldn't really help!
Does anyone happen to know which roads run along the old coastline please? I've always been interested to find out just how much reclaimation there has been.
Many Thanks for your help.
Anthony
I've come across a couple of youtube videos that are quite good.
I don't know how to put the video onto this site but the addresses are:
Hour of Darkness : part 1/6 the other 5 parts you can get after watching the first.
Not a bad documentary with lots of archive footage. about 1hr
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZukA-TBPWA
Short clips of the Battle of HK, 7-8mins
Last week I had a mooch around Pok Fu Lam reservoir and came upon some bunkers. As you first walk into the reservoir you go past a badly damaged bunker, before you reach the public toilets there is a rubbish bin, behind which is a set of stairs leading up to these bunkers.
They were once bricked up but you can get into most of them. You can follow the stairs up further to what appears to be the observation/command post .
Happy New Year to you all.
For anyone that may be interesed, A local war historian called Martin Heyes is putting together a weekend trip over the boarded to Humen to look at the old forts and where the Chinese burnt and distroyed the Opium leading into the Opium wars.
Hi There,
I would like to add a couple of photos I've found when I was trawling through my computer.
However I am having a bit of difficulties in uploading them. When I click the icon "Add or upload Drupal image" it takes me through to your gallery, but I cant find how to upload them onto a post.
Any help would be appreciated.
Kind regards, Craig
It must have been around the early/mid fifties as I was just a wee feller, but on saturday mornings, after shopping we used to go to 'Jingles', which Judging from the address was on the corner of Nathan and Humphries avenue. A few things stick in my mind; Jingles was a huge amiable American guy who needed two of his cafeteria's metal chairs to support his considerable weight. As a child I was totally mesmerised by the flashing lights and music from the Wurlitzer juke box and the amazing vanilla milkshakes.
On Flickr, DBHKer has a good collection of present-day photos of old (pre-war) buildings that still stand in Hong Kong. Each photo has a brief description of the building attached.
Other photo-sets from this user are of British colonial architecture in other places.
MrB
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