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Ping Shan pagoda-text-HK Ways & Byways book

Submitted by IDJ on Sat, 2015-01-17 19:09

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

1981

Places shown in this photo:

Tsui Shing Lau / Tsui Sing Lau pagoda [????- ]

To add confusion to this saga, the book by well-known HK architect Eric Cumine, titled 'Hong Kong Ways & Byways' published in 1981, claims that the pagoda lost its top two storeys in a 1954 typhoon which at least gives a date for ardent newspaper researchers to have a look through. Other three storey images of the pagoda in the 1950s would appear to refute this date.

The year dates for the other two pagodas construction are of general interest. <Read more ...>

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Peculiar Iron Door at the corner of Ping Shan Nam Pak Road [????- ]

Submitted by tngan on Mon, 2010-12-06 11:59

Hi there,

I was walking along the Ping Shan Heritage Trail yesterday and found this peruliar iron door at the corner of the Ping Shan Nam Pak Road. It is a concrete structure with an Iron Door right in front, with two gun port look alike holes on both sides. The two holes had been bricked up from the inside. <Read more ...>