Magnolia Road - Now and Then

Another comparison post from A Cause to Kill seeing as I was in the area anyway. The first view is looking from the top of the stairs (more or less) back towards the Yau Yat Chuen School. By pure luck there was a car parked at the same place (again, more or less) when I visited a few weeks ago. The school remains unchanged for the most part but the old building with the circular balcony behind the car has since been replaced by a newer (and less attractive) version - "Marigold Court". The Yau Yat Tsuen estate was built in the 1950s when Hong Kong was undergoing an art-deco boom and many of the original properties have art-deco/streamline moderne styling. Sadly, only a few are left.

The next images show the view looking north up Magnolia Road. Again, most of the original properties here have been redeveloped. Along the whole road there are only two original houses (numbers 6 & 7), the rest replaced circa the 1980s.