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Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2017

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Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2017

Former RAF Headquarters building, Kai Tak [1934- ]

Date Place completed: 
c.1934-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)

Extracts from the AAB's Historic Building Appraisal:

[...]

The three buildings of the Ex-Royal Air Force Station that now remain were built in 1934. No.50 was the former RAF Headquarters. It became the Kai Tak Vietnamese Refugee Camp (啟德越南難民營) between 1979 and 1981 and continued to be used for detaining Vietnamese refugees under different names until 1997. It then became the Caritas Family Crisis Support Centre (明 愛向晴軒) since March 2002.

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Architectural Merit

Former RAF Officers' Mess, Kai Tak [1934- ]

Date Place completed: 
c.1934-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)

Tai Tam Tuk Pumping Station [1908- ]

Date Place completed: 
1908-01-01

Here's the AAB's Historic Building Appraisal. Unfortunately I didn't read it until after the visit, or I'd have looked for the loopholes and air raid shelter.

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