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Old vehicular ferries and piers in Hong Kong

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Old vehicular ferries and piers in Hong Kong
Submitted by Klaus. View the original image on Flickr.
Authors: 
maximchu
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Ferry pier
Vehicular Ferry Pier
Vehicular Ferry
HYF

Date not given. From the style of the cars it could be in the 1970's. Location unknown.

Update: shows North Point Vehicular Ferry Pier (see comments below).

Date picture taken (may be approximate): 
Wednesday, January 1, 1975
Gallery: 
1970s Hong Kong
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Submitted by moddsey on Wed, 2018-01-03 03:13.

The hils in the background look like Kowloon East. So probably North Point Vehicular Ferry Pier. Comparison with this  photo

Submitted by Klaus on Sun, 2018-02-04 02:18.

Good guess. See this photo.

Update: The photo in the link shows the vehicular ferry pier at Kowloon City, not at North Point!

Submitted by moddsey on Sun, 2018-02-04 09:20.

Good work and persistence.

Submitted by tung lin on Thu, 2020-07-16 11:42.

If I am not wrong about my rusty memory Kowloon City had lost its coastline after Kei Tak Airport was built several decades ago. So impossible to think of a Ferry Pier by the Kowloon City. Could someone have better idea?

Thanks

Tung

Submitted by Klaus on Thu, 2020-07-16 16:02.

Hi Tung, looking at the piers again after two years since posting, I think your memory isn't as rusty as you might think. Now I also believe the photo shows the Kowloon City Pier. Regards, Klaus

Submitted by philk on Thu, 2020-07-16 17:44.

for this to be Kowloon City ferry pier, the background doesn't make sense. You would expect to see HK Island in the background but this background shows Tai Sheung Tok on the left and Black Hill on the right. So I think the original North Point guess is the correct one.

Submitted by Klaus on Thu, 2020-07-16 19:38.

Phil, yes it's North Point. I was mislead by the similarity of the portals of both locations. This, of course, is easy to understand as both were constructed at the same time. Kowloon City Pier was/is unchanged while the one at North Point was reconstructed in the 1980s when the Eastern Island Corridor was built. Cheers, Klaus