Long ago, Ng Chin Hung’s family used to own a lot of land in areas around Tai Hom, Yuen Leng and Hammer Hill Road. The earliest presently known registered deed landowner here was Ng Kam Choi of the Ng Clan’s 23rd generation who lived at Jiaqing to Daoguang period (1796-1850). Back then, lands were passed from generation to generation – in this case, from Ng Kam Choi to descendants like Ng Chin Hung’s great-grandfather and grandfather. Ng Chin Hung’s family leased out many parcels of land to tenants who operated fruit plants, sauce factories and distilleries. Among them was Wo Fat Hing which produced liquor. When Ng Chin Hung’s father died in 1996, by studying confidential Government files Ng Chin Hung discovered that all their ancestral lands had been expropriated by the Government. Ng Chin Hung’s paternal younger uncle, Ng Yung Kan, and Ng Chin Hung’s father owned a piece of land that stretched all the way from Wong Tai Sin Temple along Lung Cheung Road to the TVB Station. The lands owned by the two families were only separated by a puddle, the water source of which was Lion Rock Mountain. Ng Chin Hung now sighs that since each parcel of land his family owned sprawled out over 10,000 square feet, he and his family might have wound up becoming the richest family in town. The Government’s land resumption meant that his family had no chance to construct buildings there.