Wylie Court (1st generation) [c.1963-c.1983]
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Submitted by David on Mon, 2020-09-07 13:53
Current condition:
Demolished / No longer exists
Date Place completed:
c.1963-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)
Date Place demolished:
c.1983-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)
Wylie Court is the four-storey, T-shaped, black & white building at the bottom right corner of this photo:
The dates are a guess. The building is shown on sheet "1:600 179-SE-15 (Ed 1967)" at https://www.hkmapservice.gov.hk/OneStopSystem/map-search#, but not on sheet "1:600 179-SE-15 (Ed 1959-08)". They don't have the maps from the intervening years, so I've split the difference and guessed it was completed in 1963.
Centamap says the current building on the site (also named Wylie Court) was occupied in August 1985, so I've allowed a couple of years to build it.
Photos that show this place
 1964 |
 1964 |
 1979 |
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Wylie Court
From some newspaper records, the black-and-white colour first-generation Wylie Court (with a Chinese name “蕙園”) was a government staff quarters with nine flats and was completed in 1962, bearing the address of No. 15 Wylie Path. In 1981, the government invited tender for re-developing the site into five blocks of residential property providing 200 flats, 120 of which (three blocks) would be handed over back to the government as civil servant quarters. Tak Wing Investment (Holdings) Limited was awarded the contract and the new Wylie Court (Kowloon Inland Lot no. 10658) was completed in 1985.
My Family Lived at Wylie Court (1985-)
My family moved in to Wylie Court from Grand Court, Ho Man Tin Hill Road in 1985. I had lived in Grand Court from about 1982, leaving to go to school in New Zealand in 1984.
I think we lived on the 12th floor, and there was a swimming pool which my sisters enjoyed in the warmer months; my father enjoyed playing tennis in the tennis court.
There were regular helicopter landings on the field nearby, attended by medical personnel from the nearby British Military Hospital. My father was treated for broken vertebrae at British Military Hospital, having arrived by Jetfoil from Macau after sustaining a back injury.
My family left to come back to New Zealand in 1987, if I remember correctly.
My father was an architect with the Housing Authority. He died in 2017. We all have fond memories of Hong Kong, in the 1980's.