Showing posts with label Chatham Road Army Camp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chatham Road Army Camp. Show all posts

Sunday, August 31, 2025

Police Force - Wang Chung (1973) - Chatham Road South, Tsim Sha Tsui

We switch back to a real location again as the police chase the robbers away and the pursuit spills out onto Chatham Road South. The arched building in the background is St Mary's Canossian College. In the last image you can see one of the Nissen Huts from the Chatham Road Camp.

Monday, April 18, 2022

Asia-Pol Secret Service - Wang Yu (1966) - Chatham Road South, Tsim Sha Tsui

Wang Yu stops the car and hears a ticking coming from the back. He suddenly realises the girl has tricked him into the car to be killed when he realises all the doors are jammed shut. The location is between the junctions of Chatham Court and Observatory Road. Some of the buildings in the images below are still around. In image 1, the car is parked in front of the alleyway next to a building with a cantilevered second floor. This is Golden Mansion at 83-85a Chatham Road South. South Sea Apartments behind it is alos still around.

Image 2 shows the opposite side of the road and some of the Nissen huts that formed part of the Chatham Road Army camp - Camp Kowloon. For a reminder of what it looked like, check out this still from Narazumono.

The lowest image shows the view looking north along the road with the St Mary's Canossian College building in the distance. But just before there are two blocks on either side of Austin Avenue. Grandview Mansion and Winston Mansion. Both are still around as I write but the building on the left of frame has since been redevloped into the Popway Hotel.

Thursday, May 23, 2019

Narazumono - Ken Takakura (1964) - Empress Hotel, Tsim Sha Tsui

Not to be confused with the Empress Hotel that once stood over in Central, this particular one was located on the corner of Mody Road and Chatham Road South in Tsim Sha Tsui. I'm not sure when it was demolished but building records show that the current building on the site, Empress Plaza, was constructed in 1993.

Actually, this is a great sequence in the film from a location standpoint because it shows the old army camp on the opposite side of Chatham Road South, now the location for the History and Science museums as well as all the other development that has become known as East Tsim Sha Tsui. If you look at the first image, it looks as though there was some sort of religious organisation opposite the hotel which would now mark where Mody Road continues on the other side of Chatham Road South.
In the second image above you can see some of the newly reclaimed land that would eventually be turned into Wing On Plaza as well as the TST Shangri-la Hotel.


The next image below shows the view looking north up Chatham Road South and you can quite clearly see the Nissan huts of the army camp as well as the nicely curved facade of Ocean View Court which is still there (it was built in 1958). There's a brief glimpse of the hotel exterior in the lower two images as the camera is positioned on the opposite corner of Mody Road and pans down to street level.