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Secret Valley between Tai Hang and Quarry (Eod Depot)

Submitted by MikeB on Mon, 05/11/2020 - 00:35

As an avid hiker I stumbled on a trail that leads from Mount Butler Road down to the valley creek which runs in a South Western direction from Tiger Balm to the quarry by Jardine's lookout. 

There's a myriad of terraces, relicts, overgrown trails, stairs, which seem to have not been visited for decades. Even the trails from Various map sources were

very hard to find if not existing anymore. We def ended crashing through the undergrowth to reach the creek which wasnt without danger. 

1 Wang Fung Terrace [c.1933-c.1953]

Submitted by Klaus on Sun, 04/21/2019 - 00:28

House built on IL 3289.

Public Works Department (source: HKGRO) announced on 13th November, 1931 the sale of IL 3289 located at "The new Road from Tai Hang to Stubbs Road" with contents of 158.000 sq. feet. The auction was scheduled for Monday, 30th November 1931, 3 p.m.

Probably the new house was finished in 1933. It stood less than two decades as is was probably damaged during WWII. On a photo from 1945, the site looks empty. It was replaced by Grandview Mansion in 1955.

12 School Street [1949- ]

Submitted by 80sKid on Mon, 02/03/2014 - 13:24

The building at No. 12 School Street was reconstructed in 1949 to replace an earlier pre-war building named Hung Shing Yi Hok (孔聖義學, literally, Confucius free school for the poor”) founded in the late Qing Dynasty. This school was funded by donations of local inhabitants. The most generous patron of the school was Mr.