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Happy Valley, with the Colony's Race Course in the centre,
is surrounded by modern blocks of flats. The Valley
is a popular recreational area with playing fields inside the race tracks. Across the
harbour lie the hills of Kowloon.
No-one nowadays knows precisely how Happy Valley came to be so called. The original Chinese name is Wong Nei Chong,
or Yellow Mud Creek, for a little stream which becomes
a torrent in the rainy season and brings down great quantities of tawny silt from the hills.
Photo: Gainsborough Studio