Audio piece
The former industrial area of Wong Tai Sin District
Transcript
San Po Kong, the former industrial district of Hong Kong, but other than that you know next to nothing about this place, so today we will take a deeper loo k of this place.
It all started with the Japanese destroying the old Po Kong village in 1943 and turn it into an extension of the runway in the Kai Tak aerodrome.
(Alarm and plane sounds)
In 1958, the runway became useless as the aerodrome shifted southwards. And the government gave it a new purpose, an industrial area, where it manufacturers clothings, toys, red water buckets, just to name a few. However, in the 1980s, many factories in Hong Kong relocated to mainland China, and the industrial building were repurposed into offices and warehouses.
So what so special about San Po Kong, we have a library here that’s not unique, we have a Nullah that got repurposed into a river named Kai Tak River which people still fishes there for some reason. Other than that there’s nothing special about this place… Except
The eight streets of San Po Kong. The names are Tai Yau Street, Sheung Hei Street, Sam Chuk Street, Sze Mei Street, Ng Fong Street, Luk Hop Street, Tsat Po Street, Pat Tat Street. They are all named after simile of good luck and numbers, it was the first to be using such naming system in Hong Kong.