Spearhead in Hong Kong - Stafford Gordon (1981) - Man Kam To, Sheung Shui

Following on from this earlier post showing off a bit of the terrain around Man Kam To, there is also the following couple of images from the same episode. I didn't post them earlier because I wasn't 100% sure of the location but I'm now satisfied that the first image is of the police post at Man Kam To. The image is looking in a south(ish) direction with Sandy Ridge in the background. The road going up the hill at the back leads up to a helipad. The second picture shows the road that leads to the police post (if you drive to the left) and a long building at the corner of the road where it drops down the hill towards Man Kam To. It's hard to believe that the flat area in the background (including the white lattice type building structure) is now the fully developed control area for the Man Kam To crossing. Muk Wu village can be seen in the far distance (top left).

Spearhead in Hong Kong - Stafford Gordon (1981) - Lockhart Road, Wanchai

The obligatory "squaddies out on the town" sequence takes place along LockHart Road (where else?) as a group head to Club Highway. It was a bit hard tracking down the location of this place for 1981 because it moved to the 128 Building in later years. However, this shot looks as though it was taken  at the club's previous address: 53-55 Lockhart Road. This is the current location of the Spa Centre.

The lowest image shows a view further down the road to the Neptune Club and Bar when it was still at 75-79 Lockhart Road.

Spearhead in Hong Kong - Stafford Gordon (1981) - Hong Kong Macau Ferry, Sheung Wan

Sergeant Bilinski is a bit of a naughty man and heads off to Macau to fuel his gambling habit. The scene here is a little reminiscent of The Man with the Golden Gun, although Roy Holder is going in whereas Roger Moore was coming out.

This was still before the Shun Tak Centre had been built and it looks as though not much had changed between 1974 and 1981. Look carefully at the top of the first image and you can just make out the two-tone brick work of Western Market.

Spearhead in Hong Kong - Stafford Gordon (1981) - Man Kam To, Sheung Shui

In episode 2, Have a Happy Day, the soldiers are still on their anti-II patrols and a journalist (played by Nick Tate - an actor who I remember mostly from my childhood for being in Space 1999) joins the patrols to write a report for a local newspaper. Cue Nicholas Lyndhurst as Private Wilson who  mentions that they are in Man Kam To which was/is one of the several border crossings into the Mainland. Given the fact that the observation post here was already well within the Frontier Closed Area, I am doubtful the actual scene with the actors was shot there. However, we are treated to some shots of the surrounding area including the view over the bridge crossing to the Mainland side as well as a couple of shots either side of that area. The first shot is looking east and the other I (assume) is looking west.