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Central, 'Rogues' Alley

Central, 'Rogues' Alley
Submitted by Andrew Suddaby
Authors: 
Andrew Suddaby

I've never been sure whether this name was in general use but that's how it was described to me.

Date picture taken (may be approximate): 
Wednesday, January 1, 1958
Gallery: 
Suddaby, Andrew (1957-58)
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Submitted by OldTimer on Mon, 2017-09-25 23:59.

Greetings!  As some, if not all vendors, do not have licence or occupation permit, rouge is a fairly accurate description.  In my childhood time, elders used 橫巷 (off-shoot alley)
and 橫街 (off-shoot street) to call these places because they did not have known address except that they were adjacent to some known streets.  Regards,  Peter   

Submitted by tngan on Tue, 2017-09-26 00:50.

Hi There,

The street was full of stalls and shops with open air dranage just a bit off from the middle.  Likely one of those side streets between Des Voeux and Queen's Road Central and between Padder and Wing Wo Streets. 

There was quite a load of them that may fit the condition, with two more famous ones still with stalls lineing them up:  the Lei Yuen Streets, East & West.

Can't identify exactly which street was though.

T