Peak headland.

11 November 1945 RAF aerial photograph Aerial Photograph no. 0286 (F63/58A/RAF/775) showing Devil's Peak taken.

Sometime before Systematic destruction of disused military structures in Hong Kong by government. 1949

March 1956

1959

25 January 1963

Two Royal Navy Sea hawks struck Devil's Peak in fog, killing the pilots and an old lady.

Local writer Hsu Hong Shing wrote the essay "The fogs at Lei Yue Mun." RAF aerial photograph No. 4037 showing Devil's Peak taken.

Aerial photograph No. 5244 (2700 feet) taken on 25 January 1963 by Hunting Surveys Ltd.

Aerial Photograph No. 0286

Bather, 1996, p.115

Aerial Photograph No. 5244

1:600 Survey Plan No. C-198-NW-15

1973

Formation of a cut platform above Pottinger Battery commenced.

Publication of 1:1000 Survey Plan Survey Plan 11-SE-4D,

June 1975

July 1975

Publication of 1:1000 Survey Plan Survey Plan 11-SE-9B.

March 1976

1976

13 July 1977

Publication of a revised edition of 1:1000 Survey Plan Survey Plan 11-SE-9B.

"Plan of the Proposed Site for Public Park, Devil's Peak, Sai Kung District," Drawing No. SKG1405, File no. LNT52/SGS/59, Survey Sheet No. 11-SE-B1,2,3,4 showed the Redoubt as a "water works reserve;" the borrow area above Pottinger Battery.

Dr. S.M. Bard inspected the fortifications on Devil's Peak.

The record in the A&M file dated 13.7.1977 states:

Devil's Peak, Kowloon

Area A:"lower fort," this is within the area proposed for a public park. Fortifications in reinforced concrete, underground shelters, and cement/concrete gun-platforms (2 large ones).

Survey Plan 11-SE-9B

Survey Plan 11-SE-4D

Survey Plan 11-SE-9B

AM77-0101

Rollo's work has revealed the complete history

of the Redoubt, Gough and

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