In the past, Nga Tsin Wai was a water village which was surrounded by a fish pond and had a stone bridge at its entrance. Older people claimed that when they were young the site of a stone bridge used to be occupied by a drawbridge. The Village Office of the past was simply a blockhouse whose area covered just half of its size today. This blockhouse could only be accessed from downstairs via a ladder. In those years, there was a blockhouse in each of the four corners of the village. In the pre-war times, there was a “Chui Lok Club” which was located where the present mini-bus station for Tung Tau Estate now stands (Editor’s note: at the junction of Tung Kwong Road and Tung Lung Road). A very large single-storey stone building with a surrounding wall, the Club was a popular hangout with villagers. As women had a fairly lowly status before the war, only men were allowed inside. Before the war, the area beyond the nearby Kai Tak Nullah was a beach, and the location of Hong Kong’s former airport and its neighbouring petrol station was originally a pier, typhoon shelter and police station. Back then, the market was held in Sha Po Village. People of the generation before Wan Cheung’s generally grew grains in fields spread out across Wong Tai Sin and near to Kai Tak Airport. In those days, every household had a pestle for grinding rice grains. Rather than settle for jobs on farms, a lot of men back then emigrated to the UK to make their living abroad references from friends and family members.