Cheung Chau Boundary Stone #1 / 14 [????- ]

Hi David,

Bought a book at CityU Book Shop after the show and the organization published it had documented quited a few of them with UTM Grid Reference (WGS84/HK1980 Datum).  I will add them in and state the source and hope they don't mind.

For this #14 stone,the book mentioned 50Q JK 93967 58818

The book is called 爐峰史研 Book 1, published in Chinese, ISBN 978-988-15468-2-1.  Co published by Hong Kong History Study Circle and Society of Hong Kong Nature Explorers  Hong Kong History Study Circle is the same group of good people stirring up attention back in 2007 when the #7 Victoria City Boundary Stone up at Magazine Gap had disappeared.

I will add the rest of the known ones mentioned in the book with tags Cheung Chau, Boundary Stones

T

Hi David,

I find the BS stone numbers marked on the old map has some difficulty to match up with the actual BS number on the assigned locations.

On the map, #1 is at the St John Hospital, # 2 is at Peak Rd by Nam She Tong, #4 is around the Tin Fok area. #6 is near Peak Rd by the Houses#29 &#30's lot. This set of BS stones, roughly on a straight line from the hospital to the Pak Tso Wan ( the Italian Beach ), is right under the CCNDB air traffic Corridor. Missing here is the BS #3 which I strongly suggest that is on the hillet of former CTK and Church of Christ in China, due to my memory of a 1959 incident related to a Boundary Stone in the vicinity.

And most of the other BS stone locations are either no number attached or not clear to be seen. It seems to me that the map does not care about the BS number marked at other locations.

Workers could have placed them in wrong order like: 1  becomes 14 (hospital),      2  becomes 13 (Nam She Tong/ Peak Rd) ,    3 becomes 12 (my suggestion: Today's vicinity of Yan Chak Yuen/ Church of Christ in China ),  4 becomes 11 (confirmed in the picture in the yard of a house at Tin Fok area).

Strangely, between #4 and #6, there are  two BS stones and the map can't decide which one is #5. It seems the map is not the blueprint. It was a follow-up map. The map-maker thinks the first one is from the Hospital and moves the number along the CC NDB line, as for the rest of them, he just ignores their numbers almost tatally.

Make sense?

Tung

Hi David,

I find the BS stone numbers marked on the old map has some difficulty to match up with the actual BS number on the assigned locations.

On the map, #1 is at the St John Hospital, # 2 is at Peak Rd by Nam She Tong, #4 is around the Tin Fok area. #6 is near Peak Rd by the Houses#29 &#30's lot. This set of BS stones, roughly on a straight line from the hospital to the Pak Tso Wan ( the Italian Beach ), is right under the CCNDB air traffic Corridor. Missing here is the BS #3 which I strongly suggest that is on the hillet of former CTK and Church of Christ in China, due to my memory of a 1959 incident related to a Boundary Stone in the vicinity.

And most of the other BS stone locations are not either no number attached or not clear to be seen. It seems to me that the map does not care about the BS number marked at other locations.

As we look here, https://gwulo.com/atom/15611,  https://gwulo.com/atom/12751, and https://gwulo.com/node/34366

Workers could have placed them in wrong order like: 1  becomes 14 (hospital),      2  becomes 13 (Nam She Tong/ Peak Rd,) ,    3 becomes 12 (my suggestion: Today's vicinity of Yan Chak Yuen/ Church of Christ in China ),  4 becomes 11 (confirmed in the picture in the yard of a house at Tin Fok area).

Strangely, between #4 and #6, there are  two BS stones and the map can't decide which one is #5. And Tngan already mentioned a #5 BS Stone in the cementry, probably elsewhere----likely the Sai Wan area. It seems the map is not the blueprint. It was a follow-up map. The map-maker thinks the first one is from the Hospital and moves the number along the CC NDB line, as for the rest of them, he just ignores their numbers almost totally.

Make sense?

Tung