We good advantage of a cold wet weekend to go to the Hong Kong Museum of History at Tai Wai.
Actually I was a little disappointed, and didn't find it nearly as interesting as the excellent HK Heritage Museum in Kowloon.
But there was a good display on the development of New Towns and a model clearly showing how the Shatin had been developed from an empty estuary with only 4,000 inhabitants in 1950 to a city of 1 million today.
1950s
As you can see, almost all the flat land in the valley today was reclaimed from the estuary. Royal Ascot and Fo Tan is just off the top of the model, and the Lung Wah hotel is on the left-hand-side opposite the island.
1970s.
2000
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