ABSTRACT
Tai Tam Tuk 1 —the name means ‘the edge of the big water-way’—is a reservoir and boat anchorage on the southern side of Hong Kong island. It is a favourite beauty spot and its bay is still in permanent use as a boat people’s anchorage and is well known to week-end yachtsmen. It was a village long before it became a reservoir. The Hong Kong Government’s printed reports relating to the construction of the reservoir in the second decade of this century show that a village community of some eighty persons was removed to make way for the scheme, whilst other records reveal that the Tai Tam Tuk families were supposed to be removing a mile or two away to the adjoining rural area of Chai Wan. 2
