Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1967
Signs of changes at the Dairy Farm, cowsheds, paddock, and silo on the farm with the vast blocks of Wa Fu public housing estate built on what was previously farm land. A total of 18 public housing residential blocks would be erected from 1967 to 1978 followed by new Hongkong Land township of Chi Fu Fa Yuen between 1978 and 1981. <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1949
The Mains
Among the many old Dairy Farm establishments historical records refer to 'The Main' which was in the middle housing the administration centre of the farm. This enlarged 1949 aerial photograph (Source: Survey and Mapping Office, 1949) Items 1, 4 and 6 are the only buildings of the Mains that still remain today. Blue indicates the entrance access road to the Mains. Dotted line roughly refers to the Culinary College. <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1986
Reproduction Map of Dairy Farm Pokfulam based on the original Japanese Map 1941-1945 (Commissioned by Hongkong Land and Source: Nigel Cameron - The Milky Way (The history of Dairy Farm 1986.).
By 1910 there were 35 cowsheds on the farm, and by 1955 the number had risen to 47, by 1957 about 50 cowsheds at the time were seperated from each other by at least 100 yards. By late 1910 6 silos were scattered over the whole estate. <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1930
There is no record of why the unusual 4 original octagonal cowsheds format was chosen compared the many linear sheds with paddocks, although Nigel Cameron wrote in Hongkong Land's company history book in 1986 that this configuration was in use in parts of the American Mid-West at the time (c1886). It was thus generally assumed that it was possible that both imported cows and the cowshed blueprints came from the United States. <Read more ...>
