Tuen Mun – “From Ancient Port to City of the Future”, 1982 account

IDJ has sent this monograph of the dramatic changes that occurred in Tuen Mun in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It starts rather gloomily, “Castle Peak, in reality a string of scattered settlements along the shoreline of the Bay, a straggle of ramshackle squatter huts pushing up the creek of the Tuen Mun river…”

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Source: Extracted from: Tuen Mun – From Ancient Port to City of [the] Future, VFS Sit and A Birch, Pub: HK Geographical Association and Tuen Mun Rural Committee, 1982

This article was first posted on 24th April 2015.

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