Kowloon, lying directly across the harbour, was
the twin city of Hong Kong Island's urban areas.
A wedge-shaped peninsula, Kowloon in the early 1900s had seen military quarters set amidst a sprawl of pioneer developments and remaining villages. By the 1930s residential and commercial expansion had mostly levelled and widened its southern and central parts. There also had been substantial civic progress. Yet Kowloon, even at
its well-known southern point of Tsim Sha Tsui, remained a poor cousin to the more exclusive Central District.

At Tsim Sha Tsui Hedda Morrison framed
harbour panoramas between sampan masts. Elsewhere in Kowloon she explored the Chinese streets, their local life utterly different from the linear regularity and respectability of the middle-class residential areas of central north Kowloon. Curiously, she did not photograph the Peninsula Hotel, then Kowloon's largest and most imposing building. Nor did she capture the terminus of the Kowloon-Canton Railway or tree-lined Nathan Road. But, always her own person, Morrison roamed out to Kowloon's northeastern fringes. There she photographed views not taken by anyone before – grassy hills above Kowloon Bay, panoramas over Kai Tak's airfield, and market gardens set between quarried away hills.