Everything tagged: chapter 7

Obviously no longer there and that part of the harbour is already filled in as part of the ongoing reclamation project.

May Road is described by Booth as the steepest part of the track, and uphill from here was a "small signal box in which a man changed the points at the passing place".

Booth mentions this waterfall as part of his walk around the peak - "I would always set off clockwise, walking beneath overhanging trees alive with butterflies and the birds that ate them., passing a waterfall..."

I just found out today that it has a name, Lugard Waterfall.

[Update March 2019: I'd previously named this Place "Star House (1st generation)", but I can't find any evidence it was called Star House when it was in use.]

Phil wrote:

Some old china hands are mentioned here, who were interned at Stanley during the Japanese occupation. One of whom is identified as a Sammy Shields who now ran a dental practice from Star House in TST - but the Star House of 1953 was a "two storey building facing the Kowloon Star Ferry pier across the bus terminal"

Hi there,

I am uncertain which YMCA was Booth talking about in this chapter, but other than the one in Tsimshatsui, there was this old YMCA house at this location.  It was an old manor house with fences, arches and a dome if I'm not mistaken.  But it was gone after the rebuilt about two decades ago.

T

The original site had been [invaded] by the Legend Towers.  These towers had also been famous of emitting awfully greenish light pollution in the evenings.