Hong Kong’s Chek Lap Kok international airport was built in the 1990s. Construction project manager Roger Elstow stands in the as yet unbuilt the passenger terminal.
Opinion
Opinion
Then & Now
Hong Kong in the 1990s: a new airport, handover fears, Chris Patten, the BN(O) passport, David Tang, and the British recession refugees and chancers
- Hong Kong was a different place in the 1990s, a city experiencing the dying years of British colonial rule
- It was a boom time of giant construction projects, David Tang’s China chic, and a last hurrah for economic refugees and chancers arriving visa-free from the UK
Hong Kong’s Chek Lap Kok international airport was built in the 1990s. Construction project manager Roger Elstow stands in the as yet unbuilt the passenger terminal.
