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Everything tagged "1950 Military Installations Closed Areas"

Tai Lam Camp [????-c.1960]

Date Place demolished: 
c.1960-12-31 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)

Described in the 1950 Military Installations Closed Areas document as "The military camp known as Tai Lam Camp near So Kun Wat including Officer’s Mess at point 362083. The former being bounded by a wire fence."

The camp is clearly shown on the 1952 map.

It was closed in the early 1960s and the newer Perowne Barracks was built on this site.

Fan Hill Camps (b) [????-????]

Described in the 1950 Military Installations Closed Areas document as "The camp which includes Lots Nos. 1936-1938, 1939 (Crown land) 1940, 1941, 1960-1965, 1967, 1968 located South of the N.T. Police Depot and West of (a)"

Fan Hill Camps (a) [????-????]

Described in the 1950 Military Installations Closed Areas document as "The camp which includes Lots Nos. 4543, 4544, 1877C, 1877D, 1880A, 1881A, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885A, 1886B, 1887C, 1888, 1889, 1890, 1891, 4486 and located opposite D’Almada's Bungalow. Bounded by a wire fence."

Fanling Camp [????-????]

Described in the 1950 Military Installations Closed Areas document as "Lots Nos. 4347, 4348, 4348A, 4348B, 4348C, 4349, 4350, 4351, 4352, all in D.D. 51 Fanling. Surrounded by wall and fence. Formerly known as the Rural Training College."

Argyle Street Camp Nos. 3 & 4 [????-????]

Described in the 1950 Military Installations Closed Areas document as "Area on North side of Argyle Street, bounded by Argyle Street, Leven Road, Sheung Yan Road, and a barbed wire fence from Sheung Yan Road to Argyle Street."

Argyle Street Camp No. 2 [????-????]

Described in the 1950 Military Installations Closed Areas document as "Area on South side of Argyle Street surrounded by wire fence with front on Argyle Street."

Ordnance Depot and Camp, Kowloon Tsai [????-????]

Described in the 1950 Military Installations Closed Areas document as "The area on the west side of Waterloo Road, bounded by Waterloo Road and a peri­meter fence, opposite Somerset Road and Suffolk Road."

R.A.S.C. Anchorage, Shamshuipo [????-????]

Described in the 1950 Military Installations Closed Areas document as "The area enclosed by a line joining points 540046, 538044, 543042, 544043 and bounded on the South-West by a line of sixteen buoys extending be­tween point 533044 and 543042; on the North-East by the quay­side and the old Shamshuipo Typhoon anchorage break­water. The area is demarcated on the South-West by two Dan buoys each carrying a red flag and on the North-East by a pole bearing a red flag on the Shamshuipo breakwater and a red marker on the quay."

R.A.F. Explosives Area [????- ]

Described in the 1950 Military Installations Closed Areas document as "N.W. of Kai Tak Airfield bounded by a fence."

 

Chung Hum Kok barracks [????- ]

Described in the 1950 Military Installations Closed Areas document as "Isolated barracks surrounded by fence."

 

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