In this film we carry on up the hill a bit further to a house called "Glenthorne" which, rather surprisingly for Hong Kong, still exists. I take my hat off to the owners for not selling up to a developer because the house is very stylish (and I have no doubt jinxed it by featuring it here). The interwebs tells me this house was built in 1958 and is one of only a couple originals.
On the way up we are treated to some views of Fei Ngo Shan Road as the car drives passed the previously linked to "Cairnmount". We also get brief glimpses of some of the neighbouring properties, but they are, sadly, only fleeting.
"Cairnmount" on the left
Glenthorne
A view of the neighbouring property "Devonia" (since demolished)
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Since I saw this location a few days ago, I looked around to see if I can find any more information on the net about this cluster of houses. Unfortunately, I did not uncover anything else. They would certainly have had a single corporate owner for new houses to be added on the lawns in this manner. I wanted to find out if it was HSBC that utilized the unused plot ratio or sold it to a developer who did.
Yeah, even the Land Registry docs (that cost money) rarely shed light on anything other than the companies that own(ed) it. Maybe it was a private owner when first built but almost definitely company owned now thanks to the stamp duty avoidance that everyone does.
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