Tsuen Wan, a new town

When you think of Tsuen Wan, does the soaring Nina Tower, or the many temples dotted around Tsuen Wan's hills come to your mind? Did you know that before Tsuen Wan became part of the city, it was a shallow bay covered with vegetable farmlands, and was known as a disease-ridden place that nobody wanted to go to? However, since its designation as the first generation of New Town development in 1961, Tsuen Wan's development has not stopped for breath for 50 years. Transforming from a rural place where phone calls were charged as long-distance calls, to a major industrial hub later on, how did the early residents of Tsuen Wan adapt to living there? How did indigenous inhabitants move to give way to the development of new town? How would factory owners, foremen and workers recall the industrialized Tsuen Wan in those days? Tsuen Wan New Town included Kwai Ching, Tsing Yi, Lai King and nearby area. Because of a lack of public transport, people got around by village-lorries. How do early hawkers, and radio programme host Lam Chiu-wing, witness the development of Tsuen Wan's shopping hub, Chung On Street and Chuen Lung Street?
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