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.
Another good site for this kind of stuff:
http://hongwrong.com/haunted-castles/
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.
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):
The Lung Tsun Pavillion (buried by the Japanese occupiers when they extended Kai Tak Airport)
Remains of the bridge found beneath Kai Tak:
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
Last edited by Pauljoecoe; 21-03-2022 at 06:51 AM.