On Ap Lei Chau, as throughout Hong Kong, scarce land required every scrap to be used — as here, where drying shrimp paste, and vegetable plots, exist amidst houses. In the right foreground, drying mats lean against the tiled roof of an old village building. The broken down walls (centre left) may be from bomb damage, as the Lamont Docks, across the anchorage, had been targeted by Allied air raids in January 1945.