Hong Kong, Clothes market in Hong KongStreet traders display their wares at a busy clothes market. Behind them are several multi-storey resettlement blocks, which were built all over Kowloon by the British government to re-house 70,000 people after fire destroyed an overcrowded squatter settlement in 1953. Original Manuscript Caption: Old clothes market outside one of the huge resettlement buildings, 1963. 2005/010/1/11/38.

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Clothes market in Hong Kong

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