British servicemen in the 1920s and ‘30s often formed relationships with prostitutes. Portrait of Ms Siu Sheung Fei (above) and Ms Fa Yuk Lan (below), of Tsiu Lok brothel, Shek Tong Tsui, 1931.
British servicemen in the 1920s and ‘30s often formed relationships with prostitutes. Portrait of Ms Siu Sheung Fei (above) and Ms Fa Yuk Lan (below), of Tsiu Lok brothel, Shek Tong Tsui, 1931.
Jason Wordie
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Then & Now by Jason Wordie

How Hong Kong’s unattached British servicemen found love between the wars: bar girls, brothels and ‘down ’omers’

  • Unable to interest the British girls in colonial Hong Kong, lovesick soldiers struck up relationships with the city’s other outcasts: bar girls and prostitutes
  • Many of these ‘girlfriends’ were set up in subdivided flats, and some of the relationships grew into happy marriages

Jason Wordie
Jason Wordie

Updated: 8:45am, 2 May, 2022

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British servicemen in the 1920s and ‘30s often formed relationships with prostitutes. Portrait of Ms Siu Sheung Fei (above) and Ms Fa Yuk Lan (below), of Tsiu Lok brothel, Shek Tong Tsui, 1931.
British servicemen in the 1920s and ‘30s often formed relationships with prostitutes. Portrait of Ms Siu Sheung Fei (above) and Ms Fa Yuk Lan (below), of Tsiu Lok brothel, Shek Tong Tsui, 1931.
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