Showing posts with label Suffolk Road. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Suffolk Road. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 3, 2026

The Young Rebel - David Chiang (1975) - Suffolk Road, Kowloon Tong

The bike chase continues as we move from Princess Margaret Road and Cornwall Street to Suffolk Road. Interestingly, the rather striking wrought iron gate you can see in the background (top image) is still in place on the front gate of #10. (see here: GoogleEarth). That's also the top of the wall of #10 in the lower image, but they have since filled in the gaps with some concrete lattice.


Wednesday, June 6, 2018

T.N.T Jackson - Jeanne Bell (1974) - Kowloon Tong, Kowloon

After her rendezvous in the dodgy location where she was attacked and got to show off her (admittedly, very naff) kung fu skills, T.N.T gets a lift out of harms way by a passing motorist. The next couple of forward facing in-car shots were filmed just down the road from me along Suffolk Road (top picture) and then Waterloo Road. The rear facing in-car shots (close ups of the two actresses) were shot in the Philippines and not Hong Kong. 

The Nissen huts at the end of the Suffolk Road in the top picture belonged to Osborn Barracks on the other side of Waterloo Road. The hill in the background is the Kowloon Tsai Park hillock that used to host the famous Kai Tak checkerboards. In fact, despite the poor image quality, you can just make up the west facing checkerboard on the immediate left of the driver's head at the top of the slope.


At the end of Suffolk Road, the car turns left onto Waterloo Road in its pre-flyover days. Without the flyover we have a clear view up the road to the white telephone exchange building on the corner of Junction Road, and behind it is the main block of the Baptist Hospital. The block of flats on the left side of the road in the distance is Pine Tree Gardens and its still marks the corner with Cornwall Street opposite the hospital. In the distance on the hill side is Lung Cheung Court on Broadcast Drive. All these buildings mentioned are still around.

There's also another brief glimpse of Suffolk Road a bit later as Charlie (Stan Shaw) goes to see Elaine, who lives there. You can see the former military ground that occupied the space between Suffolk Road and Norfolk Road (Nissen hut in the background). The hill in the far background was removed in the 1990s to make way for Festival Walk.