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Valley Road Estate [1962-2001]

Submitted by simtang on Thu, 2022-03-17 09:05
Date Place completed: 
c.1962-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)
Date Place demolished: 
c.2001-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)

Valley Road Estate (Chinese: 山谷道邨)

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valley road estate hunghom
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1982 Kwong Fuk Estate under construction. = 興建中的廣福

Submitted by Klaus on Sat, 2021-08-28 02:46

Test on Flickr:

Looking north-east from the present Tolo Highway - Yuen Chau Tsai Section. The highway is opened in 1985. The building under construction is Wang Fuk Estate.

此照片在現今吐露港公路元洲仔段拍攝,由西南望向東北,這工地是興建中的吐露港公路元洲仔段,它於1983年通車,其後為興建中的宏福苑,八仙嶺也在遠處出現

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1982
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2/2/2015 Sunrise Tai Hing Estate

Submitted by Klaus on Fri, 2018-08-31 21:24

Similar view like in 1977, but now green and occupied.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2015
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Tuen Mun
public housing estate

Tai Hing Estate

Submitted by Klaus on Tue, 2018-04-10 21:02

Five of the cruciform buildings of Tai Hing Estate. Most likely still under construction, no sign of roads and any infrastructure is visible. Date estimated to be 1977.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1977
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Tuen Mun
public housing estate

Tai Hing Estate [c.1977- ]

Submitted by Klaus on Tue, 2018-04-10 20:57
Date Place completed: 
c.1977-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)

From Wikipedia:

The Tai Hing Estate (Chinese: 大興邨) is the second public housing estate and the oldest existing public housing estate in Tuen Mun, New Territories, Hong Kong. There are 8,602 flats on the estate with capacity to house 21,100 people.

The site was previously farms near the coastline of Castle Peak Bay before the land reclamation of the bay for the construction of Tuen Mun New Town.

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Tuen Mun
estate
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Mei Foo Sun Chuen + Lai Chi Kok Hospital-1976.jpg

Submitted by Klaus on Wed, 2016-08-24 21:35
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1976
Places shown in this photo: 
Mei Foo Sun Chuen [1978- ]
Jao Tsung-I Academy (was Lai Chi Kok Hospital) [????- ]

From Flickr: Lower ( younger) part of double image.  Showing Mei Foo Sun Tsuen and Lai Chi Kok Hospital.

Cheung Kwai Estate [1984- ]

Submitted by Klaus on Tue, 2016-08-23 16:28
Date Place completed: 
c.1984-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)

Cheung Kwai Estate on Cheung Chau.

Hong KOng Housing authority states: Public Rental Housing, opened 1984. It has 18 blocks with a total of 500 households. As of mid 2016 1.400 people live there ("authorized poplulation"). 

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Wah Fu Estate [1967- ]

Submitted by David on Fri, 2015-05-15 15:49
Date Place completed: 
1967-01-01

Completion date from the Housing Authority website: http://www.housingauthority.gov.hk/en/global-elements/estate-locator/det...

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