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Belchers Bay Squatter huts

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Belchers Bay Squatter huts
Submitted by fivestar

I have named this Wah Fu, is it correct and are the concrete buildings above the squatter huts still there?

Date picture taken (may be approximate): 
Friday, January 1, 1971
Gallery: 
1970s Hong Kong
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Submitted by fivestar on Mon, 2010-06-14 09:04.

 Maybe I have serious brain fade and these are the squatter huts which were around Belchers Bay opposite Green island.

Submitted by David on Mon, 2010-06-14 16:58.

:-)

Yes, they're the squatter huts opposite Green island. Only the concrete building, Chee Sing Kok Social Centre, is still there today.

Those squatter huts look so precarious.

Submitted by fivestar on Mon, 2010-06-14 17:38.

  many thanks for the correction

Submitted by tngan on Mon, 2010-06-14 17:43.

Hi there,

An event in early-mid 1980s which might have accellerated the removal of these huts in 1984.  There was a severe Typhoon in 1983 and a Fireman died during an evacuation of the seaside huts when the wooden floor gave way.

Best Regards,

T