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Argyle Street Waterworks Depot

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The building housed the New Territories West (NTW) Regional Office of the Water Supplies Department. It was a depot-type office for the operation and maintenance staff and vehicles of the Water Supplies Department and its contractors. It served the "NTW region", covering
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During the same morning, trouble had also come to another Government Depot in the Colony when 300 workers at the Argyle Street Waterworks Depot left their work at 9 a.m. in a protest against the move to suspend 12 fellow workers. Fortunately, water supplies were not
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The Argyle Street Waterworks Depot was built in 1950. An additional three-storey block of offices was completed in 1954. One morning during the
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Sai Yee Street Environmental Hygiene Offices-cum-vehicle Depot. The site is expected to be later sold for office and commercial development.
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The building was demolished in 2019. The WSD Mong Kok Office was relocated to WSD Tin Shui Wai Building at 20 Tin Pak Road,
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that are around 50 to 70 years old, remain on the site. The redeveloped site also includes the area of the former
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Sai Yee Street Environmental Hygiene Offices-cum-vehicle Depot, after demolition, in 2020. The preserved
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Hong Kong Annual Departmental Work Report by the Director of Public Works for the Financial year 1954-55
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The Argyle Street Waterworks Depot was located in Mong Kok, at the intersection of
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Colony in Conflict: The Hong Kong Disturbances, May 1967-January 1968
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Site of the former Argyle Street Waterworks Depot and
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The Argyle Street Waterworks Depot at the corner of
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Sai Yee Street
Argyle Street

Sai Yee Street

Argyle Street

Mongkok's Graffiti Wall of Fame

FEHD
banyans
Sai Yee Street
Chinese
Water Supplies Department
Mong Kok
Yau Tsim Mong District
Hong Kong
Argyle Street
Sai Yee Street
Mong Kok East station
1967 Hong Kong riots
Tsuen Wan
Kwai Chung
Tsing Yi
Yuen Long
Tuen Mun
Tin Shui Wai
Tin Shui Wai
Modernist style

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