In this walk we will explore numerous fascinating back corners of Kowloon that many long-term residents never see or experience.

We start at Jordan Road, and take in some interesting areas around Temple Street and Shanghai Street and surrounding side roads, visit the Tin Hau Temple at Public Square Street and learn something of its wider role in Chinese community and health care organisations.

We will see the historic Yaumatei Police Station, learn something about the historical development of the typhoon shelter and how the daily lives of its “floating” inhabitants have greatly changed over the past half-century. We will also visit the gwo-laan, where most of Hong Kong’s fresh fruit is traded, and a number of interesting old buildings nearby.  Numerous vanishing occupations and businesses - legal and otherwise - will all be explored along the way on the way north.