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Thee photographs speak volumes!

Hong Kong in 1967 and now

Ivonne Holliday ● 1832d9 Comments

I lived in Hong Kong for a couple of years in the 1970s and it was already more like the second photo.  There were parts of the New Territories which were undeveloped but HK Island and the whole of Kowloon was pretty much wall to wall skyscrapers.A lot of the housing stock was built in the early 1970s to accommodate refugees from the Mainland and the population went from 3 million to 5 in the space of 20 years.  It's grown by another 3 million since I was there!

Jonathan Callaway ● 1832d

I think the earlier picture was taken from this collection of anyone os interested in old photos of Hong Konghttps://gwulo.com/hong-kong-photos-1960s-70s

Ed Robinson ● 1832d

Ah I see, I lived in the Aldgate area about 15 years ago and whenever I (rarely) go back I'm stunned at how much it's changed.

Matt Palmer ● 1832d

Matt, I actually meant all the buildings. As we often used to take our boat to West India Dock, with other Boat Clubs you can obviously see more buildings being built all the time.

Barbara Stevens ● 1832d

Air pollution is already perfectly visible in the skies over London Barbara.

Matt Palmer ● 1832d

Wow unbelievable, London might end up like that.

Barbara Stevens ● 1832d

Yeah. Contrast the skies.

David Ainsworth ● 1832d

Wow. Some difference!

Michael Ixer ● 1832d

Oooops!!!  These photographs speak volumes!

Ivonne Holliday ● 1832d