The fading old Wan Chai 退色的舊灣仔

The fading old Wan Chai

Between Queen's Road and the tramway of Johnston Road are the old residential blocks built before the starting of the WW2, and streets that preserve many local cultures and characteristics carried down from the past. All that has changed since the starting of the re-development project.

Must re-development always be tearing everything down to the ground before start building anything?

The four 80-year-old detached buildings at Johnston Road, including the Wo Cheung Pawnshop, were "Lucky enough" to be choosen as the ones to be preserved. The surroundings ones were not so lucky, now all disappeared.

退色的舊灣仔

在皇后大道東至莊士敦道電車路之間是二次大戰前發展的住宅區，有多條很具香港本地特色的街道，部份更仍保留有戰前住宅的特色。重建社區，是否有必要全部拆卸重建，把整個舊區「連根拔起」？

莊士敦道項目中的和昌大押及相連的四座樓宇，是「有幸被選中」保留的唐樓之一。兩邊及後面其他的，經已消失。