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Lok Ma Chau Viewing Point - Watch your pockets !

Submitted by Chinarail on Tue, 2020-08-04 15:23
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1966

During the 1960s-1970s tourists and other visitors to the Lok Na Chau Viewing Point would invariably be met by a Hakka man and an entourage of his grandchildren. But beware if you took a photograph …. you can read why on this Forum Topic HERE )

LMC-Lookout-Girl-Pointing.jpg

Submitted by Chinarail on Tue, 2020-08-04 15:23
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1966

Close up of a small girl pointing towards Chinarail's friend holding his camera .  Picture is extracted from a larger photograph taken at Lok Ma Chau Viewing Point in 1966. Read more on this Forum Topic HERE 

Lok-Ma-Chau - Lookout - The View Today ( 2019)

Submitted by Chinarail on Tue, 2020-08-04 15:23
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2019

The duck farm ponds and rice fields across the border have all given way to a high-rise Central Busiess Dsitrict of Futian in Shenzhen. Read more about the former years on this Forum Topic HERE 

Lok Ma Chau - Map of border region c.1960

Submitted by Chinarail on Tue, 2020-08-04 15:23
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1960

Extract from a late 1950s British military map showing the  border region near Lok Ma Chau. The Viewing Point was ( and still is) accessible up a short  road leading to the top of a small hill  on which Lok Ma Chau police station is located. The viewing point overlooks  the border ,  marked by the Shum Chun River. You can read a description of what met your eyes back in 1966 on this Forum Topic HERE 

Lok Ma Chau - Small Cantonese girl with baby boy strapped to her back

Submitted by Chinarail on Tue, 2020-08-04 15:23
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1966

Close up of a small girl.  Picture is extracted from a larger photograph taken at Lok Ma Chau Viewing Point in 1966. Read more on this Forum Topic HERE 

Lok Ma Chau – Hong Kong’s Most Photographed Man ?

Submitted by Chinarail on Tue, 2020-08-04 15:23
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1966

During the 1960s-1970s tourists and other visitors to the Lok Na Chau Viewing Point would invariably be met by this old local farmer and an entourage of his grandchildren. But beware if you took a photograph …. you can read why on this Forum Topic HERE )

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