Wan Chai station really has the most fabulous tiling – walls and floor!

I’m grateful to Malcolm Oakes for not only recommending a visit here but also sending me some terrific directions to get to Lai Uk Tsuen and its hidden Chik Kwai study hall. It was also a great excuse to get out of the city into the New Territories. The study hall is believed to have been constructed by

Visited: 26 January 2018

There was also a beautiful ‘mansion’ with veggie patches adjacent to the study hall.

I really wanted to have a good poke around here but there was a man doing his morning exercises in the front yard.

This is a rather sneaky view as actually there were plenty of modern houses surrounding this mansion!

Note the use of old DVD disks to keep the birds away.

Some more lovely tiling. This time around the village of Lai Uk Tseun Lai Uk, Shek Kong in Hong Kong. Give it a few years and these tiled buildings will start appearing on heritage lists.

Visited: 26 January 2018

St Andrew’s church in Kowloon was built in 1904. It really is rather lovely and the associated vicarage almost as big. Is now surrounded by a substantial collection of church buildings and still very active.

Visited: 26 January 2018

Po Leung Kuk was established by Chinese Hong Kong merchants to rescue kidnapped women and children. They still provide welfare services today. Thanks to Natalie Fong for recommending a visit.

The interior walls of the PLK building were filled with honour boards with photographic portraits printed on tiles of major donors to this quasi-government Chinese charity. Note lovely hair styles on the women. Also a beautiful identity badge.

Amanda Rasmussen and I were also excited to see donation plaques for Wing On and Sincere two of three companies who were key donors to Po Leung Kok in 1930-1931.

Visited: 28 January 2018