Soares Avenue looking south east. The 7-11 on the left demarcates the starting point of the 'triangular plot' which housed the pro-Commie school. Now it is a residential block called Wing Ying Mansions.
Emma Avenue (on the right) as seen from Soares Ave. This is also one of the corners of the triangular plot which housed the pro-Communist school. The Fourseas would have looked over the road about 100 metres further up - you can see the windows from the Metropark Hotel Kowloon facing the camera to the left of the bamboo scaffolding.
You can see this on the 1949 map, marked 'Mohammedan cemetery'. It must have been cleared since then though, as now it is the site of several buildings.
Booth found the skeleton of a snake there, and notes the unusual shape of the graves. He was given the following explanation by one of the staff at the Fourseas Hotel: <Read more ...>
Booth notes seeing fortune tellers and the like in the square in front of the temple. He also provides a fairly detailed description of the temple interior. <Read more ...>
We believe this is the hospital Martin Booth refers to in Chapter 3 of 'Golden Boy'. Although not mentioned by name, its proximity and age make it the most likely candidate. <Read more ...>
