Tung Chung watchtower is located in the north of the existing Tung Chung Home for the Aged. The building is made of blue bricks and divided into three floors. The walls of each floor are densely covered with gun holes that are wide inside and narrow outside. Angle in all directions, is also an observation hole, used to monitor the peripheral movement. The wall is thick and strong, with a wide bottom and a narrow top. Around the roof, more than one meter floated outward, and a guardrail was built on it to form a platform. Around the roof of the building, every one meter or so, there is a bullet hole the size of a fist, facing the ground, in order to shoot people who attack the foot of the turret. From the bottom to the top of the artillery building, there is a Chinese fir ladder, which is about 0.8 meters wide.
After the completion of the turret in Tung Chung, it was so powerful that it became the "base" for Li Lanji and other "big bosses" to occupy Tung Chung. At that time, it took about 5-6 mu of land price or about 10,000 Jin of grain price to build such a turret. To build such a magnificent turret, you must be rich and powerful, powerful and prominent.
1952 during the land reform, the Tung Chung artillery building and artillery workshop were designated as public property. Later, it was used as the staff dormitory of Tung Chung Health Center.
In 200 1 year, the Tung Chung Town Government allocated 65,438+10,000 yuan for renovation, and now it has become the "Tung Chung Ethnic Customs Exhibition Hall".
In September 2005, the "Tung Chung Turret" was registered as a cultural relic protection unit by the Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture.