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Admin Building - Central Kwai Chung Park [????- ]

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Submitted by philk on Mon, 2017-04-10 11:57
Current condition: 
In use

Old Colonial-style building with verandahs in Central Kwai Chung Park. Now used for park admin, but what was it before?

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Central Kwai Chung Park
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2017

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Submitted by philk on Mon, 2017-04-10 12:04.

I'd be interested if anyone can inform me of the history of this place. There is a photo on GoogleEarth that mentions it being the former office of the Shui Fong Cattle Ground (and there is a concrete statue of a cow in the park...) but I can't find anything else.

Any ideas anyone?

Submitted by philk on Mon, 2017-04-10 15:57.

I found a reference that has a date of 1960 for it and the Chinese name: 瑞峰牛房 which gives a few more hits on the internet.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/7CVDJZV

and a news article: http://news.takungpao.com/paper/q/2013/0709/1745697.html

 

Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2017-04-20 15:05.

Email from Alan:

I came to HK in 1971 to build one of the container terminals in Gin Drinkers Bay.....and I traveled to there on Leung Cheung Road.
At the location of the park in your article...there was a road leading down the hill from Leung Cheung Road which I often took to reach my office.

I recall on that hillside...a barn...and dairy cows grazing.....so I believe that the building had something to do with the dairy cows.