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Hong Kong Polytechnic in 1979
Thanks to Mark MacAlpine for his memories of the site as it looked in this 1979 photo:
He writes:
I arrived in 1973 and well remember the half-and-half period when the ‘old buildings’ (Technical College) were still there, co-existing with the first third of the ‘Harlech castle’ development. The grey two-storey building above and left of the yellow ‘prepared site’ itself to the left of the swimming pool was probably at that time used by the Central Reprographic Services in the days when photocopiers were special. Previously it had been a government mortuary. Later when it was used for temporary classrooms the students were decidedly uncomfortable to be told of this connection – as I usually did during my lectures, but comforted them (?) by saying I was the only ‘gwai’ still around. The building still exists and will shortly become a centre for research under the aegis of the Boeing aircraft company.