School Campus

The Maryknoll Fathers began working in the Kwun Tong area in the late 1950s. In 1962, the Maryknoll Society asked Education Department for assistance in building a subsidized Anglo-Chinese secondary school. The planning of the school was delayed by the unrest of the late 1960s and the serious inflation which upset all cost estimates. But eventually ground was broken in the summer of 1971 and the construction of the school building began...

The early photos of school building of KTMC are as follows:

1971 Summer - View of hall and classroom wing foundations

1972 March - Half-finished

1972 June - Sau Mau Ping landslide

1972 Summer

1972 September - Rushing to meet deadline

1972 October - View of School and Pastoral Centre nearing completion

1972 October - School Entrance/Pastoral Centre nearing completion

1972 Fall - Two more months to go