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Rifle range on the Peak: The shooting platforms [????- ]

Submitted by David on Fri, 10/31/2008 - 12:10

Martin Booth mentions this range a couple of times, as part of his walk along Harlech Road:

[...] passing a waterfall, and arriving at the place where the soldiers lay down to shoot across a valley at the butts.

I'm not 100% sure where the shooting platform was, but I'll guess it's here for a couple of reasons:

Muslim cemetery, Kowloon [c.1921-c.1967]

Submitted by David on Thu, 10/30/2008 - 14:41

You can see this on the 1949 map, marked 'Mohammedan cemetery'. It must have been cleared since then though, as now it is the site of several buildings.

Booth found the skeleton of a snake there, and notes the unusual shape of the graves. He was given the following explanation by one of the staff at the Fourseas Hotel: