Everything tagged: 1950 Military Installations Closed Areas

The eastern part of this ground was previously the internment camp / POW camp that was built in 1939. Later aerial photos show that the old huts from that camp continued to be used in the new Army Camp. The western section next to Kowloon Hospital was originally empty land, but later photos show Nissen huts were erected there.

In the late 1970s / early 1980s the site was used to house Vietnamese refugees.

Timeline:

• c. 1950. British Army camp.

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Described in the 1950 Military Installations Closed Areas document as "The derelict house known as “Westward Ho” and the grounds thereof situated on the island of Cheung Chau."

Described in the 1950 Military Installations Closed Areas document as "An area enclosed by a circular wire fence of approximately 50 yds. radius with a military observation post at the centre."

Described in the 1950 Military Installations Closed Areas document as "An area enclosed by a circular wire fence of approximately 50 yds. radius with a military observation post at the centre."

Described in the 1950 Military Installations Closed Areas document as "That part of the Clearwater Bay Peninsula which lies South and East of a line (indicated by a post and wire fence) running across the Peninsula from shore to shore and crossing the Clearwater Bay Road at point 673037."

Described in the 1950 Military Installations Closed Areas document as "All that area included within a line drawn at a distance of fifty yards from each side of the Shing Mun Road from point 505092 to point 527107."

Described in the 1950 Military Installations Closed Areas document as "The camp known as Tat Tak in the place locally known as Fong Yuen, San Hui, and including Lots Nos. 153 and 154 in D.D. 131."

Described in the 1950 Military Installations Closed Areas document as "The area of land lying to the North of the military road in the vicinity of Tate’s Cairn and enclosed by a line joining points 612077, 615078, 612078 and 615079."

Described in the 1950 Military Installations Closed Areas document as "West of the Taipo Road and about 1/2 mile South of Island House, Taipo Inland Lot No. 13 together with Lots 24-26 and and 34-38 in D.D. 32 and an area of adjacent Crown land surrounded by a wire fence."