At the end of Ma Tau Kok Road there are the remains of an old pier.
Looking at the 1952 map, it's the nearest pier to the old cattle depot, so I wonder if it is where cattle deliveries by sea were unloaded? [Update: It was a combined refuse boat pier and livestock landing pier. See comments below.] <Read more ...>
A map from the 1940s (Plate 3-5b, Mapping Hong Kong) shows this pier at the end of Fleming Road. I'm not sure exactly what the 'G.P.' stood for - 'General Pier' perhaps? It's where rubbish was loaded onto barges.
Any ideas what happened to the rubbish after that? <Read more ...>
