What's the use of the structure beside the person in blue? A kind of partition?
P_20200302_PB314_interior.jpg
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- P_20200302_PB314_interior.jpg shows Place Pillbox 314, Golden Hill Road [1937- ]
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There's a water reservoir in many
There's a water reservoir in many (all?) of the pillboxes. Could that be what we're looking at? Here's the one in PB022, filled with a couple of blue plastic containers when I visited:
Somebody staying there?
I don't think anyone was
I don't think anyone was living there - more likely it was used as a storeroom by some of the local fishermen.
Structure in PB
Probability is that it was once a water tank, probably used for the water cooled Vickers Machine Gun. I doubt it was for personal use, as drinking water was supplied separately.
Where
Where's this PB022?
What's the hole at the bottom for ... For draining?
PB 022 is near Stanley, see
PB 022 is near Stanley, see https://gwulo.com/node/1824
Here's a list of them for future reference: https://gwulo.com/pillboxes-in-hong-kong