Shek Kip Mei

  • Six-storey blocks in Shep Kip Mei, September 1954.
  • ‘H’ shape Shek Kip Mei resettlement block with communal water supply and flush latrines, September 1954.
  • The Shek Kip Mei project consisted of eight permanent six-storey buildings and ninety eight temporary buildings of two and three storeys, with a total population of 53,910 persons, December 1954.
  • 22 of the temporary two-storey buildings erected at Shek Kip Mei immediately after the fire of December 1953 have been demolished to provide sites for permanent seven-storey blocks and a large Government Polyclinic, 1956.
  • Emergency two-storey buildings replaced by seven-storey blocks in the redevelopment progress of Shek Kip Mei, June 1957.
  • Redevelopment progress, Shek Kip Mei, June 1957.
  • Seven-storey blocks at Shek Kip Mei to replace emergency two-storey buildings erected after the 1953 fire, September 1957.
  • Two new seven-storey blocks replacing the temporary two-storey buildings erected after the Shek Kip Mei fire, October 1957.
  • The new Shek Kip Mei Government Health Centre opened in November 1957.
  • Part of the remaining squatter area in the Shek Kip Mei valley and some of the multi-storey buildings of the Shek Kip Mei Resettlement Estate, 1958.
  • Construction of a drain in the Shek Kip Mei valley squatter area. The illegal structures in the background were to be cleared in April 1958.
  • Clearance in Shek Kip Mei Village for a new link road to Tai Hang Tung Estate, June 1958.
  • Clearance in Shek Kip Mei Village for a new link road to Tai Hang Tung Estate, June 1958.
  • Clearance in Shek Kip Mei Village for a new link road to Tai Hang Tung Estate, June 1958.
  • Clearance in Shek Kip Mei Village for a new link road to Tai Hang Tung Estate, June 1958.
  • Shek Kip Mei Estate, January 1955.
  • Redevelopment of Shek Kip Mei Estate. Most of the original two-storey buildings have been replaced by seven-storey blocks, June 1958.