WAN CHAI SERIES #3 - Wedding Card Street

The story of Wedding Card Street is a sad one:

This small community of designers and makers of wedding cards lived and worked in Lee Tung Street (better known as Wedding Card Street) for well over a century, children taking over from parents, generation after generation.


Then, a decade back, they applied for heritage protection as one of these then-newfangled "living museums". That's when they let the inspectors in to evaluate them for heritage value ... but all the inspectors saw was the concrete cancer and pronounced the place "an accident waiting to happen" and ordered the entire street to immediately come down.

Naturally, the street went all trenchant and steadfast and, for ten years, they heroically kept the wreckers at bay.









But it couldn't last. Pragmatic HK ultimately sides with where the money is. After one last massive struggle - which got the whole of HK finally talking about how they couldn't keep destroying their past in this way - two months ago they were all forceably evicted and that was that!!!

I SALUTE YOU WEDDING CARD STREET!

HAIL AND FAREWELL!

And if you wish to see gorgeous photos of Wedding Card Street in its heyday, go here: