A Red Brick Angled Wall atop a hillside South of Victoria Island. | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

A Red Brick Angled Wall atop a hillside South of Victoria Island.

This is an incredible long-shot, but as the years go on, it is one of the last gaps of knowledge about my Hong Kong. Which was the period 1955-1957. When the Royal Navy Hong Kong Flotilla with it's heavily armed wooden Motor Launches patrolled "South" , I remember looking high up, from the sea below, near Stanley, and seeing a red-brick built angled wall, with a large open cement like shute/drain down to the sea. In the folk-lore of the times, and as a teenager sailor, I was told that it was a wall against which the Japanese executed persons during the occupation by firing squad. No doubt that was just a lurid tale. No doubt it has been demolished. It is a without doubt a vague enquiry, but this splendid Gwulo site usually has answers for everything.I will try and post a picture which is inaccurate because from the sea it seem somewhat a sheer drop, cliff-like from the top of the peak to the sea. Maybe that description might assist. Peter Yeates.

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Hi Peter,

There's the big wall around Stanley Prison in that area. Not sure if that could have been what you saw?

If you can add the photo we might be able to spot where it was taken.

Regards, David