Stefan Irvine, ’Tonkin Street’, Cheung Sha Wan 2014
Stefan Irvine, ’Tonkin Street’, Cheung Sha Wan 2014
Stefan Irvine - The Last Tong Lau
’Tonkin Street’, Cheung Sha Wan
Photographs taken in 2014, digital collage completed in 2021
Archival Pigment Print
Prints are signed by artist on print below the image.
Small: Image size about H28x 61cm
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Tonkin Street, Cheung Sha Wan | 東京街，長沙灣
This panorama depicts Nos. 24-38 Tonkin Street, and features two classic tong lau buildings from the mid-1950’s. Situated at the boundary of Cheung Sha Wan and Sham Shui Po districts, these mixed-use structures provided residential homes in the upper floors and retail units on the ground floor for more than 60 years. In 2020, the Urban Renewal Authority began a redevelopment project requiring the demolition of these buildings, which will be replaced by a high-rise block of around 175 new apartments.
Fuk Wing Street, seen at the right of the photograph, is also known locally as “Toy Street”, due to a cluster of more than 30 stores selling affordable toys, stationery and party accessories further to the south in Sham Shui Po.
In April 2006, drainage workers uncovered more than 580 explosive items, including cannon shells, bullets and grenades. These were buried between 1 and 3 metres beneath the surface at Tonkin Street and Fuk Wing Street. The material had belonged to the British Army around the period of World War II and local residents were temporarily evacuated to allow ammunition experts from the Hong Kong Police Force to safely detonate the devices.
這張全景圖為東京街24-38號，位於長沙 灣和深水埗區交界，街道屹立著兩幢 1950年代中期建成的經典塘樓，過去60 年多，這些混合用途樓宇的上層皆為住 戶，底層則為零售單位。2020年，市區 重建局的一項重建項目導致這些樓宇被 拆除，取而代之的是一幢由大概175個新單位組成的住宅大樓。
照片右側的福榮街被坊間稱為「玩具街」，皆因深水埗以南有超過30家出售價格實惠的玩具、文具和派對用品商店。
2006年4月，排水工作人員於東京街和福榮街地表以下1至3米處發現過580件爆炸物，當中包括砲彈、子彈和手榴彈，經調查後發現這些炸物材屬二戰期間的英國軍隊。當時居⺠被暫時疏散，以便香港警務處的彈藥專家能進行安全引爆。
