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Not got enough pictures of one site to merit a full-blown report on one site but these lot make a nice little collection with a common place as a theme:

Old abandoned fisherman's house on Tai O, Lantau:

15598147200_72063e2569_b.jpgHKurbex15 by HughieDW, on Flickr


15597154649_d231951659_b.jpgHKurbex14 by HughieDW, on Flickr


Abandoned municipal building, Tai O, Lantau:

15598189790_3cec60d6b1_b.jpgHKurbex13 by HughieDW, on Flickr


15759330926_09e9a1bc60_b.jpgHKurbex12 by HughieDW, on Flickr


Abandoned pharmacy, New Territories:

15597610518_8493d1e095_b.jpgHKurbex10 by HughieDW, on Flickr


15784610212_243aae5837_b.jpgHKurbex11 by HughieDW, on Flickr


Abandoned flats, Tsuen Wan:

15759349796_a0266573b6_b.jpgHKurbex9 by HughieDW, on Flickr


15597884667_1c7240ed7f_b.jpgHKurbex8 by HughieDW, on Flickr


15163609893_55b223517b_b.jpgHKurbex7 by HughieDW, on Flickr


15163616433_cb8b1046a3_b.jpgHKurbex6 by HughieDW, on Flickr


15163621103_b96235ce12_b.jpgHKurbex5 by HughieDW, on Flickr


Abandoned building, Tai O pier, Lantau:

15783075485_f3fb39e2ee_b.jpgHKurbex4 by HughieDW, on Flickr


15783091795_7f0beba94f_b.jpgHKurbex3 by HughieDW, on Flickr


Old show, Tsuen Wan:

15163665963_f9f15c16f6_b.jpgHKurbex2 by HughieDW, on Flickr


Decaying house, Shueng Chueng Wai, Ping Shan.

15163678073_44589785c5_b.jpgHKurbex1 by HughieDW, on Flickr


Shek Lo Colonial house, near Fan Ling. There's a bit of history on this house. It was built in 1925 by Mr Tsui Yan-sou, who was also the founder of Wah Yan College. The two-storey building is a blend of Chinese and Western architectural styles. Despite its colonial-style characteristics it has a traditional Chinese pitched roof supported on wooden purlins and battens and covered by Chinese clay tiles. Other notable features include the courtyard and also the layout of the rooms, which is similar to that of traditional Chinese residences. Located in the middle of the parapet of the roof is a semi-circular brick wall engraved with the characters “Shek Lo”. It has now been left to decay which is a shame as it has some real character. Sadly only took one picture back when I visited in 2003. Revisit definitely in order here.

15784701472_b3d2a8f5b6_b.jpgShek Lo by HughieDW, on Flickr
 
Amazing.
Love the star cut out detail on the shutters. The scale of the blocks is almost Pripyat-esque!
Brilliant, thanks for sharing :)
 
Very interesting, I would have thought anywhere in Hong Kong would be redeveloped quite fast after going out of use.
 
Very interesting, I would have thought anywhere in Hong Kong would be redeveloped quite fast after going out of use.

It's funny. Some sites do get redeveloped very quickly. However the sites in the outer islands can sit there for ages, untouched for years. It really does depend on who owns the land.
 
Lots of housing estates in HK are slum-like with over-crowding. Government buy up whole estates to bulldoze then redevelop. Loved the Shek-Lo colonial house.
My huge regret living in HK was not photographing where we lived at the time, an ex-Officers barracks that REEKED of the colonial past with a manicured croquet lawn. These were sold to the HK government and we were lucky enough to live in one, literally yards from the official HK governors house. Now redeveloped into a museum I believe.
 
There was a military complex on the edge of Hong Kong in some sort of limbo as it was technically in the Peoples Republic.

It was squatted in & HK police couldn't patrol there, eventually it was pulled down in the 1990s.
 
I know Sek Kong (New Territories) was a Gurkha recruitment place, I think its that one you have mentioned. Handed back in '97.
 

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