Tsang Tai Uk

The complex is located in Sha Tin close to the south of Pok Hong Estate, near Lion Rock Tunnel Road.

Also purchasing the best agricultural land in the surrounding valley alongside the village to afford a stable income when there were inevitable economic recessions.

The four corners each feature a three-story guard tower with openings in the wall through which guns could be fired back in the early days of the complex's role as a defensive fortification.

[6] Shan Ha Wai gained its current name Tsang Tai Uk from locals when it housed displaced families after the Second World War.

[8] The land reclaimed from Tide Cove upon which the Sha Tin New Town was built was formed to an average of five or six metres above sea level.

[10] Restoration work of the ancestral hall started in 2009, after a HK$ 1m Government grant on maintenance of privately owned graded historic buildings had been approved.

Inside Tsang Tai Uk in October 2006
Ancestral hall of Tsang Tai Uk in March 2008
Main courtyard of Tsang Tai Uk in March 2008
Corner tower of Tsang Tai Uk in April 2008