Hong Kong walled city Kam Tin

Life in a walled city in the New Territories of Hong Kong back in 1960

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• old
• hong kong
• new territories
• kam tin
• 1960
• walled city
• michael rogge
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[orientalsweetlips]

Great video. The initial shot looks more like Kung Lung Wai in Leung Yeuk Tauh (Fan Ling).

[MichaelRogge]

You may be right. It was some fifty years ago I took the movie which was broadcast in Holland.

[orientalsweetlips]

If it is where I think it is (I'm not quite 100%), it hasn't really changed that much. The moat has gone (now a carpark) but the walls are intact and the gatehouse has been embellished a bit, but the background mountains (far right of screen) look the same.

Michael, I think you should bring your camera back to HK and revisit some places, it would make a great film to see the changes.

Thanks for sharing them all.

[MichaelRogge]

I was back in 1989 and was baffled by the changes since my departure thirty years before and unfortunately not for the good. Same applies to Japan. I took some movies of modern Hong Kong but there are already so many clips that I do not care to duplicate.

[orientalsweetlips]

Michael, I went back to Kam Tin recently and can confirm you are correct. There is still a small moat circling the village, but the part you see above has been paved over and is now a basketball court (or something like that). The wall is still intact, but many houses inside are now built up and extend well over the top of the wall, some even using the wall to build on. Fascinating stuff. Even 1989 is a long time ago in HK,things change so fast-your 89 stuff would definitely be good to see too.

[MichaelRogge]

Thanks for exploring Kam Tin. Amazing that even that ancient town could not escape modern times. Today or tomorrow I hope to ad another clip with a few photo's of Kam Tin. In one you see a house being torn down, I suppose to make place for something modern.

[himitsunosallychan]

非常に興味深い資料です。この客家村はほぼ同じ形で残っています­ね。New Territoryだからでしょうが、、、

[777juneau]

we lived inkowloon bay ,,i remmember the moonsoon,,we had a long baconey ,and by tricycle went from one end to the other,,

[delboylee]

Kat Hing Wai! Great video

[nailgirl618]

Your videos brought tears to me...

[alancwwong]

Michael, it seems that you missed very much about the old HK and felt sad about the great changes. I also missed those days of 'primitive' living..simple, pure, unpolluted..

[canman5060]

My great aunt who passed away some 20 years now lived in Kam Tin with his husband and children and we went there every year for chinese new year greeting. I can still remember passing throught the then wall city.

[wokos]

both film and music are very good

[Qunjin]

My village