Gretzky

From what I've known, the construction went westward up to Sutherland Street and it stopped there. I don't think the construction work was anywhere near the former mental hospital at all (I know cuz I lived next to it, on High Street). So I am not sure about the authenticity of the location.

A possible location is  創 業 centre in Witty Street/Des Voeus Road. There is an empty space on the ground floor (across from the Tram station) that is directly underneath Pizza Hut. For 20+ years (I used to go to 創 業 for video games in junior high) that space is blocked by boards. No one knows why the space is never use for retail purposes.

創 業 is over 25 yrs old now, and I guess that explains the rusty/creepy feeling of the photos

[ Last edited by Gretzky on 2005-4-28 at 10:39 AM ]

Gretzky

Originally posted by 本篤十六世 at 2005-4-28 05:32 PM:
i went there last Sunday to have
adventure with my friends

Interesting.....I guess you are good with taking pictures...because I found the identical pix at a local site.

http://hk.geocities.com/samkingyu20192/o/

Gretzky

It's right next to the candy/grocery store and the Waton's store. I suspect it's just an exit reserved for the possible MTR station. The tunnel has not reached that far and the developer of the estate would not be so stupid to build something substantial.

I think when you turn the corner of the stairs, you would soon see a concret wall, not a tunnel.

I don't think anyone can get in since the security is tight there. Besides, the metal fence is rusty and heavy (there's no door on the fence) so the intruder has to role the whole darn thing up to get in, which is very noisy even during the day time.

The location is 30 meters from Witty St. and Des Voeux Rd. and every minute there are more than 100 people passing through. I wonder how anyone can get in without getting caught.

That's why I am disgusted of someone's mention of visiting the site last Sunday (see my URL link above). Liar.

If you still want to go there...it's directly across from the second last tram station to Witty Street or Shek Tong Chui.

Gretzky

This is a bit off our original topic but I thought I can contribute a bit more on the High Street story.

Regarding the ghost stories at High Street. The building was transformed to a community hall and a senior home 10+ years ago. I lived acrossed from it for a year. Though there are many ghost stories associated with that place. But as our brother has stated, most of the ghosts are indeed drug addicts. They used to lived up on the Yu To Sang Fortness (just across from Bonham road, besides YWCA). I was in elementary school when I visited that fortness with friends. I saw a lot of XXX magazines and needles on the ground. The fortness and the old mental hospital were the main 'residence' for the drug addicts for a long time.

So where did the ghost stories came from? it's actually from the park across the old mental hospital. My friend did his M.Philo at CU on HK history and he told me that park used to be a local cemetary (san fun in Cantonese) before 1842. When the Britons came, they destroyed the graves and make it a park.

I played football,basketball as well as run there for over 25 yrs. And I have always wonder why the gov't would only use 2/3 of the land for playground and trees. 1/3 of the park (the south side, near the mental hospital) was closed off for tree nusary until reconstruction began in the late 90s.

My wife and I lived on the 23rd floor and would sometimes look at the park at night from our balcony. I do get the creepy feeling once in a while.