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    Quote Originally Posted by mrgoodkat:
    You can/could rent that one from the government to live in. It was last tendered in 2017 for 60k/month. Not too bad actually.

    https://www.gpa.gov.hk/english/let/text/lookout.html
    Yeah, you just have to maintain and repair a grade 1 landmark inside and out at your own expense. Fine until a 100yo sewage pipe bursts!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Coolboy:
    You live in that area of Southside? You must be rich...I am guessing?
    It's in Tai Po

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    Quote Originally Posted by FrancisX:
    It's in Tai Po
    I see...Tai Po. I've never been that part of Tai Po I think.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FrancisX:
    Interesting - haven't seen the Lookout building and been in that area a lot.

    The mansion that got torn down - how long ago? I was off road up there a while back and came across a large house. I didn't get a good look a I was chased away by a dog but looked run down but still lived in. Can't find it online but name was Girassol Barretto. Lived in by the woman referenced in link below

    Gloria Barretto: Gloria Barretto's 90th Birthday

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    This is the Taipo Castle I was referring to, the owner has an odd history.

    Built after Eu settled in Hong Kong, Euston Castle on Bonham Road was home to his five wives and an unknown number of concubines. Eu also had at least 34 children, hence the need for so many residences across the city.
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    Another good site for this kind of stuff:

    http://hongwrong.com/haunted-castles/

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cornmeal:
    This is the Taipo Castle I was referring to, the owner has an odd history.



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    Another good site for this kind of stuff:

    The Long-Lost Haunted Castles of Hong Kong
    He was an eccentric fellow to be sure. That Tai-Po castle never got completed...intentionally. A Feng Shui master told Eu that he will continue to be rich if he kept building that structure. So that's what he did. It was constantly in a state of construction. Never finished.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cornmeal:
    This is the Taipo Castle I was referring to, the owner has an odd history.



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    Another good site for this kind of stuff:

    The Long-Lost Haunted Castles of Hong Kong
    Wow a website is not come across before and a cursory glance suggests I’ll be a frequent visitor
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    Quote Originally Posted by ByeByeEngland:
    Wow a website is not come across before and a cursory glance suggests I’ll be a frequent visitor
    Run by none other than Tom Grundy before he started Hong Kong Free Press!

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    There is also the Kowloon Walled City. I am not referring to the period where it was a lawless enclave with this jumbled mix of unplanned buildings. I am referring to its original pre-WW2 state, when it was a Qing Military Fort:

    Lung Tsun Stone Bridge leading to the Fort (the bridge was buried by the Japanese occupiers during WW2 when they extended the Kai Tak Airport):

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    The Lung Tsun Pavillion (buried by the Japanese occupiers when they extended Kai Tak Airport)
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    Remains of the bridge found beneath Kai Tak:
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    This popped up on my facebook. some nice ones here.
    https://www.timeout.com/hong-kong/at...box=1647676137

    Hong Kong Club Building -Particularly sad that this went to be replaced by a rather less uninspiring one

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