The wartime map shows it at the southern end of South Bay. I took a look, but couldn't see any sign of it.
At the northern end of the beach was this concrete block that looked about the right size:
The position of PB12 where the one legged Chinese Admiral Chan Chak's escape launch was shot up from as his party were escaping to find the 2nd MTB Flotilla.
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Update: Rob has identified this as Pillbox 063]
Although the wartime maps don't show the location of pillbox 061, we're guessing this is where it was.
The red marker shows the approximate location of the northern tip of the western arm of the old vehicular ferry pier. You can see the pillbox on this photo of the ferry pier in the 1950s:
Pillbox 62 was on Connaught Road, in front of the GPO building.
Monday's walk was one of those 'it's the journey, not the destination' outings. In theory I was going to find the location of pillbox 72, but in any case it was lovely weather, and a good excuse to scramble over some rocks.
The map we've been using shows pillbox 72 on the coastline, somewhere between Jubilee Battery and Kennedy Town. Last weekend we took a ferry to Lamma, so I used the chance to take some photos of this section of the coastline. It's the view as you pass through Sulphur Channel, between HK Island and Green Island.
Entrance of the Pillbox
[2022 Updated with corrections from Rob]
This photo by Harrison Forman gives a clear view of the pillbox.
UWM's Harrison Forman collection has several photos of this area and the pillbox in 1941 (see below).
Interesting to see there was a gas station on the junction even then, and apparently under the same management. In 1941 the station sign says 'Texaco', and today's station is the ground floor of a building named Caltex House, Texaco being an ancestor of the Caltex brand.
Some points for discussion:
1. Direction.
As usual, the pillbox was built on the old shoreline. In this case, the shore of Kellett Bay.
The bay has been reclaimed, and is now the site of the Wah Kwai Housing Estate. The estate took its first residents in 1990, so the reclamation will have been before then.
I took a walk around the back of the estate, but there is no sign of the pillbox. The hillside slopes have been cut back as part of building the estate, so I guess the pillbox was demolished at that time.
