Showing posts with label Kung Lok Road. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kung Lok Road. Show all posts

Sunday, April 24, 2022

Asia-Pol Secret Service - Wang Yu (1966) - Kung Lok Road, Kwun Tong

A sort way along Kung Lok Road and Wang Yu spots some derelict ground away from people and pulls the car over in preparation for the bomb to explode. The location of this spot of open ground was a bit difficult to find but I was helped by the buildings in the background that allowed me to pinpoint it. Remember the Johnson Industrial Mansion/Chuan Yuan Factory Building in this post? Well, it can be seen in the background of image 1 just above and right of the white car. The building that occupies the right side of the frame is the (then) newly built "Wah Mei Lau" of the Kwun Tong Garden Estate. Moving left is the aforementioned factory building on Kwun Tong Road and next to that is another industrial building consisting of two parallel low rise blocks. I dont know the name of this building, but I will tell you that it occupied the plot now filled with Manulife Place (348 Kwun Tong Road). The empty space where the car stops is where "Hyde Towers" now stands.

Saturday, April 23, 2022

Asia-Pol Secret Service - Wang Yu (1966) - Hong Ning Road, Kwun Tong

The previous post of Shui Ning Street was viewed from the vantage point of the location of this next post - Hong Ning Road. All that has happened is that the camera has turned 90 degrees to the right so it is now pointed down Hong Ning Road as Wang Yu's car drives up. As you can see in the second image, the car takes the left hand turn onto Kung Lok Road. The buildings on the corner block here (Hong Ning Building and its neighbour the Tung Ming Building) are still around, so this view is very similar today - apart from slightly more development down the hill. I'm not sure what the gold cross was for but Hong Kong is a very religious organisation-dominated place so it was probably either a church or church-run school (most local schools in HK are religiously affiliated due to the Colonial Govt's policy of gifting parcels of land to them on the proviso that they set up a school on it).