P.E. – You either love it, or you hate it. Which is why, if you fall in the latter category, you would probably love Hong Wen School’s Dickson Road campus in the city. But even without the tract of field to play around with, this school certainly has its shares of ups and downs. yg blogs about the Hong Wen’s school history.
this dickson road campus, set up in 1955, was the second of three campuses. the first was on queen street, where the school opened with only 50 pupils. it was not an easy beginning. in 1923, the great drepression forced the school to close down for two years, and in 1940, riots broke out between the hing hua and foo ching dialect groups, during which one hundred foo ching men raided and destroyed the school.
Hong Wen moves to a new premises in Towner Road at the end of the year, but its history lives on. Read more at ygblog.
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