Tiu Keng Leng

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Tiu Keng Leng
調景嶺
Area
Tiu Keng Leng was rebuilt and transformed from a squatter area to a high-rise housing estate
Tiu Keng Leng was rebuilt and transformed from a squatter area to a high-rise housing estate
Tiu Keng Leng is located in Hong Kong
Tiu Keng Leng
Tiu Keng Leng
Location in Hong Kong
Coordinates: 22°18′21″N 114°15′08″E / 22.30583°N 114.25222°E / 22.30583; 114.25222
Established26 June 1950
Tiu Keng Leng
Traditional Chinese調景嶺
Simplified Chinese调景岭
Cantonese Yaletìuh gíng léhng
JyutpingTiu4 Ging2 Leng5

Tiu Keng Leng (Chinese: 調景嶺), formerly[citation needed] Rennie's Mill, is an area of Hong Kong in the Sai Kung District adjacent to Tseung Kwan O (Junk Bay).

The area used to be a

Tseung Kwan O New Town
.

History

The earliest traceable name referring to the area nowadays known as Tiu Keng Leng was "Chiu Keng Leng" (照鏡嶺, lit. ridge of mirror reflection), being a reference to the clearness and calmness of the adjacent bay. The name was given by Tanka residents in the area.

The now uncommon name "Rennie's Mill" can still be seen on a road sign
Grave of Alfred Herbert Rennie at Hong Kong Cemetery

Both the names "Tiu Keng Leng" and "Rennie's Mill" come from a 19th-century Canadian businessman named Alfred Herbert Rennie, who established the Hong Kong Milling Company at Junk Bay (his partners were Paul Chater and Hormusjee Naorojee Mody). The business failed, and Rennie drowned himself there in 1908, though it was mistakenly reported that he had hanged himself. The incident gave the Chinese name for the site 吊頸嶺 (Tiu Keng Leng / Jyutping: diu3 geng2 leng5), meaning "Hanging (neck) Ridge", a pun on the name "Chiu Keng Leng" mentioned above. Because it was inauspicious, the name was later changed to similar-sounding 調景嶺 (Tiu King Leng / Jyutping: tiu4 ging2 leng5, which can be interpreted as "ridge of adjusting situation".)

Hong Sing Garden and renamed as King Ling College
after redevelopment)
“Long live President Chiang” banner on the hill nearby

On 26 June 1950 the

1967 Riots
did not have an effect on Rennie's Mill.

Rennie's Mill was badly damaged by Typhoon Wanda in 1962, rendering many homeless.[3]

In 1996 the Hong Kong government evicted the last of Rennie's Mill's original residents, ostensibly to make room for

transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997.[citation needed
]

Earlier in 1961, the people of Rennie's Mill were promised by the government that they would be able to stay "indefinitely," and in June 1996, residents petitioned the High Court, where judge Raymond Sears found that "In my judgment, the conduct of the Housing Authority by serving notices to quit, in breach of the clear promises of 1961, amounts to an abuse of power."[4]

  • Hong Kong Milling Company in 1910s
    Hong Kong Milling Company in 1910s
  • Rennie's Mill in 1950s
    Rennie's Mill in 1950s
  • Rennie's Mill in 1955
    Rennie's Mill in 1955
  • Rennie's Mill in 1995
    Rennie's Mill in 1995
  • Tiu Keng Leng and Tseung Kwan O South in 2019
    Tiu Keng Leng and
    Tseung Kwan O South
    in 2019

Housing

Ocean Shores

After the handover, the English name of the area was changed from "Rennie's Mill" to "Tiu Keng Leng", following the Cantonese name. Tiu Keng Leng became redeveloped as a modern high-rise residential district.

Metro Town is a private housing estate situated directly above the Tiu Keng Leng Station. With nine towers built on top of a carpark/shopping mall podium, it is the tallest structure in the area.

To the south of Metro Town, on the site of a former steel mill operated by Shiu Wing Steel, is another private housing estate, Ocean Shores.

The three public housing estates in the area are: Kin Ming Estate, Choi Ming Court and Shin Ming Estate.

Transport

Before the redevelopment and reclamation in the surrounding area, Tiu Keng Leng could be reached by the winding, hilly and narrow

better source needed
]

The various centres of Tseung Kwan O were always intended to be served primarily by the MTR metro system,[6] and the 2002 opening of Tiu Keng Leng station of the Tseung Kwan O line and Kwun Tong line provided a much-used link to the urban area of Kowloon.

Education

Hong Kong Design Institute

The Hong Kong Design Institute (HKDI) is well known for the shape of its building. Designed by French architects Coldefy & Associs, it resembles a piece of paper floating mid-air featuring a glazed box raised seven storeys above the ground on four lattice-steel towers that rest on a sloping, grass-covered podium. Total construction cost amounted to HK$1.2 billion, it was opened in November 2010.

The

Caritas Institute of Higher Education
is located at Tiu Keng Leng. The institute has the aim of becoming the first Catholic University in Hong Kong.

See also

References

  1. ^ Kenneth Lan (2006), Rennie's Mill: the origin and evolution of a special enclave in Hong Kong. Ph.D. Thesis, HKU. Accessed 8 August 2023.
  2. JSTOR 3023656
    .
  3. ^ "Many Homeless At Rennie's Mill". South China Morning Post. 4 September 1962. p. 8.
  4. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  5. ^ "Major Projects - Tseung Kwan O – Lam Tin Tunnel". www.cedd.gov.hk. Retrieved 14 June 2020.
  6. ^ Junk Bay New Town Transport Study·RAIL TRANSPORT – ALTERNATIVE ALIGNMENTS, 1981

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