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TST Backyard 1 (1980)

TST Backyard 1 (1980)
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Could have been shot from our room at the old Park Hotel (Chatham/Cameron Road). For me it looks like a combination of old houses due for demolition and squatter huts.

Update 2020-11-23: Rear view of Canton Road near its junction with Kowloon Park Drive (see comments below).

Google Streetview gives today's appearance.

Date picture taken (may be approximate): 
Wednesday, August 27, 1980

Comments

Another possibility could be looking at the backs of buildings on Ashley Road from Kowloon Park Drive. That would fit with the photo of Haiphong Street market taken around the same time.

Most have been re-developed, but there are still a couple of similar buildings along there:

Regards, David

 

David, your suggestion could be better than mine. All my images originally were slides which are numbered (I used Kodachrome with paper frames, processed by Kodak and stamped with consecutive numbers). My image of Kowloon Park (Base ID136623)  is No. 4, this one is No. 5, and Shop with people = Haiphong Road Temporary Market (Base ID 136659) is No. 6.

Regards, Klaus

Recently seen the old tenement buildings in a photo (with watermark). Yes, it is Kowloon Park Drive but near the junction with Canton Road. The buildings shown are on the east side of Canton Road. The tall buildings under scaffolding are part of the Harbour City redevelopment.

Hi moddsey, you're narrowing the possibilities of this location. The old houses should be on the photo below north of the taller building visible west of Whitfield Barracks.

1972 TST Canton Road top view
1972 TST Canton Road top view, by Eternal1966

 I think the road behind the square white building (possibly a warehouse) is Haiphong Road, the house under construction Hanley House.

Looked on the website HKMS 2.0. An aerial view from April 1980 shows this area, believe that the buildings in the circle match with the ones on my photo.

Canton Road/Kowloon Park Drive aerial view 1980
Canton Road/Kowloon Park Drive aerial view 1980 , by Klaus

Well done, moddsey. Regards, Klaus

Yes, the area circled show the buildings.