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Five great Facebook pages for fans of Hong Kong history
Anyone with an interest in old Hong Kong, and a Facebook account, can travel back in time
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Official history is all too often coloured by politics. Thanks to the internet and contributions from people who have affection for Hong Kong, however, numerous aspects of the city’s colourful past live on and are constantly enriched.
Anyone with an interest in old Hong Kong, and a Facebook account, can travel back in time through a number of online communities. On these regularly updated pages, members share memories and accounts of everyday life, people and places, with photos, videos and other links illustrating the city’s unique history.
Here are five Facebook pages that between them offer a diverse picture of the Hong Kong of yesteryear.
Hong Kong in the ’60s is steeped in nostalgia and personal memories of people who called the city home during that golden era. Members often use the page as a meeting place for old friends, to chat and share anecdotes of events, people and places – the Hilton hotel’s popular buffet gets a few mentions. There is a genuine community feel to the page, with members sharing personal photos from their family albums. Copyright-expired images from the era are also posted. See Hong Kong as it was when high-rises started appearing on the skyline, long-lost architectural gems, women in elegant cheongsams with beehive hair-dos, policemen directing cars before the appearance of traffic lights, and a whole lot more.
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