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<Read more ...>
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 )<Read more ...>
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 )<Read more ...>
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 <Read more ...>
Another glimpse of the "Bamboo Curtain" (as my little tour flier puts it) from July 1972. I think I took this rather boring tour just for the opportunity of peeking over at Red China. I certainly wasted enough film up there that day. <Read more ...>
Various views I took at Lok Ma Chau (according to the tour booklet from "President Tours" I saved all these years due to my packrat tendencies. This was July,1972 <Read more ...>
