Ng Siu Kei
Ng Siu Kei
A young man obedient to traditions of walled village
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Many  houses in the village were eventually sold and demolished
Many houses in the village were eventually sold and demolished
Ng Siu Kei’s ancestral home was located to the center-right of the photo. Now demolished by a developer, the site is over-run with weeds and trees-Photo taken by HKMP Team (2012)
Many houses in the village were eventually sold and demolished
Ng Siu Kei’s ancestral home was located to the center-right of the photo. Now demolished by a developer, the site is over-run with weeds and trees-Photo taken by HKMP Team (2012)
The family’s houses were sold to Cheung Kong Holdings in the 1980s
As of the mid 1980s, Ng Siu Kei’s family still owned three houses. The two families of Lee Foo and Ng Siu Kei sold their houses in 1986 and became the first villagers to sell their homes to CKH’s real estate division. They did not talk too much about the sale because they felt they had been promised preferential terms and did not know very much about other residents’ sale transactions. In 1990, Ng Siu Kei’s mother passed away because of illness. Shortly before she died she instructed Ng Siu Kei and his brothers to take good care of their eldest aunt. At that time, all the brothers were busy raising their own families and moved out of the village. As a result, they all chipped in and arranged for the elderly woman to move into an old folks’ home after their mother passed away. Soon afterwards, the eldest aunt also passed away. Between 1995 and 1996, Ng Siu Kei’s second and third younger brothers emigrated to Canada one after another. Before they left Hong Kong, all four brothers had a meeting and decided that there was no point in keeping the three houses they had already sold. In view of how hard the distance made it to gather all four brothers in one place to sign the relevant documents, the siblings decided to deliver up vacant possession of the three houses and finalize the transaction.