Something old - Sai Ying Pun Centre Street

Can you believe it? Centre Street was that busy in 1953.

Photo from 'Urban transformation of Sai Ying Pun' by Hendrik Tieben, Woo Pui Leng, Yuet Tsang Chi
10 May - 15 July Exhibition organised by the Conservancy Centre for Heritage, Venue: 36 Western Street
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Glad that I got the book from good of desire. Otherwise, I would not know there is such an exhbition going on in the neighbourhood.

I have a chinese book titled 'a century of HK roads and streets' that is about the history of hong kong streets with lots of photos. It is interesting to see that many shops (mainly food and clothing), clinics and restaurants were in the streets. I learnt more about Hong Kong by reading the book. My grandma and grandpa used to live in Hollywood Road and Hollywood Road was a very busy street in those days. I tried to imagine them walking in the streets. Funny!
My secondary school is the first girl's school in HK and the church I went to is one of the oldest churches (the first local church for chinese though if I remember correctly) . I am proud that I am 100% made in HK.