Named after: The back of the newly built village of Tai Hang
Chinese name: 後街
Timeline:
Other points of interest:
16 Sun Chun Street, THL 40
Named after:
Francis Alfred Cooper (First Director of Public Works 1891–1897)
Samuel Brown (Surveyor General 1889–1891)
Chinese names:
谷柏街
寶琅街
布朗街
Italic words mean name used before.
Timeline:
A single story brick building on top of Tai Hang Nullah, it was demolished alongside the covering of that nullah. It was built out of red bricks to be specific.
Page 3, Hong Kong Daily Press 1914-02-25, the Sanitary Board agreed to erect a temporary market of 12 stalls, and reserve a site for a permanent market.
At 1927 September 23, the government gazetted a tender for reconstruction of Tai Hang Market.
It has a chance to be built on the reserved site in 1914.
Dear all,
I'm writing to share my recently published MA thesis on squatter settlements in Hong Kong history, entitled "Sedimentary planning : the formation of squatter settlements in Hong Kong, 1669-1954."
4-storey buildings at 57-63 Wun Sha Street.
Wun Sha Street has been constructed along the former Haw Par Stream/Victoria Park Nullah in the early 1950s. 57-63 Wun Sha Street were the oldest houses built in the uphill direction. The construction date is unclear, they were built earlier than the Concord Villas which were first occupied in June 1958. So 1955 is the estimated construction date.
They were demolished around 1987/88 and replaced by the Fook Hing Court (first occupied May 1989).
INTRO: As Tiger Balm Garden was a favourite tourist destination, we have many photos showing the squatter village. The village is also mentioned several times in Dam at Haw Par Stream [????- ] and other posts.
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.
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.
Building on IL4223 at 70 Tai Hang Road. Centadata gives 06/1984 as date of first occupation. Trafalgar Court has 60 units on 30 floors.
Building on IL4223 at 70 Tai Hang Road. It was built after demolition of the predecessor in 1962 and demolished in about 1983 to make way for Trafalgar Court. It had 7 floors and was y-shaped (see the 1975 map onhttp://www.hkmaps.hk/mapviewer.html).
