A wonderful room in the center of Shanghai, under the water tower of more than 20 meters high, the room height is only 1.8 meters ... the old changed the old change

Author:Jiefang Daily Time:2022.07.21

In the 143rd district of Jianguo East Road, Huangpu District, a large water tower is towering in a house with an old and low secondary secondary. The water tower was built earlier in the last century to solve the problem of water supply in Shanghai, but as the city was updated, many water towers had been abandoned, and there were not many water towers left in the center of Shanghai.

And under this large water tower of more than 20 meters high, a dilapidated three -story building was "long".

There are three households living in the three -story small building

Snail has been in the water tower for more than 40 years

What is their lives like?

The reporter entered the home of the residents of the "Water Tower" a few days ago ↓

The house built under the water tower

The water tower used to be an important urban facility in Shanghai. The terrain of Shanghai is high to the east, and the largest water factory in Shanghai, the Yangshu Po Plant in Shanghai, is located in the eastern district of Shanghai. The terrain is low. If you want to achieve water to the west, the water should flow from a low place to a high place. Construct a water tower along the line to balance the water pressure.

No one said clearly, which year the water tower in the 143rd district of Jianguo East Road was built, but the old residents in Lai Lai said that at the beginning of the construction, the builder considered the water tower.

The water tower is large, and the front side is full of mottled, but it can be seen that the facade was pale yellow. It is regarded as a relatively intact water tower relic to preserve in Shanghai. There will be a lot of photos of this water tower on "Xiaohongshu". Some netizens said that it looks quite historical and beautiful.

But people who really enter the water tower will find that their lives are another scene.

Fang Guo East Road 143 The Community was built below the second level of 1980 and ninety years ago. It is dilapidated and dirty. Many residents are still carrying toilet. The three households below the water tower are even more embarrassed.

The second floor under the water tower lives in Aunt Ma's family. Enter a small door behind the water tower, climb up a tilted and narrow stairs, and arrives at her house.

Aunt Ma's home

A room of about 10 square meters contains a double bed, a small cabinet, a computer table, a small dining table, and a daily necessities of 778. It is difficult for two people to turn around in the house. The height of the room was only one meter eight. Aunt Ma said that her son's tall and big son should bow his head in the room. A 10 -square -meter hut upstairs is also her house, climbing up through a humble stairs.

Go to a small house upstairs and climb a humble staircase

When I walked into the small building, I found that the small building was quite "clever" at that time. Several pillars of the water tower were completely embedded in the building, but it also caused irregularities in the room. "A section of columns.

More than 40 years ago, Aunt Ma lived in. The unit was divided here at that time. Aunt Ma and her husband came over and looked at it. "What kind of house is this, there is a water tower on the top of the head, there is a huge container that is higher than the three -story floor, it will not fall!"

Some old residents said that there were no houses under the initial water tower, but earlier in the last century, Shanghai was very housing tight, and houses where houses could be built in the community were built. I don't know who came up, and the space under the water tower was also used. So there is this strange building.

The pillars of the house and the water tower are built together

Although the house under the water tower is strange, it belongs to the "serious and serious" unit. In Shanghai in the 1980s, young people can have a unit of rooms, which is rare.

Aunt Ma was no longer satisfied with the house, and there was no way, because there was nothing other choices.

The husband and wife lived in, and then had a son. There was only one room on the second floor. When the most crowded, Aunt Ma took her son to sleep on the bed. Her husband was spreading in the house because the family could not put a larger bed. Later, she had a hut upstairs, and her living space was slightly larger. To go to the toilet, we need to carry a toilet for more than 30 years. One square meter to the toilet was installed when the government was renovated a few years ago; there was no kitchen in the building. tower.

After decades under the water tower, the house has long been dead: the wooden staircase is stuck in a straight sound, the wooden windows are crumbling, and the walls are "crispy". When the reporters entered that day, they accidentally rolled the threshold of Aunt Ma's house. The kind Aunt Ma comforted us and said that the threshold has long been loosened.

Aunt Ma is most worried about the water tower above her head. A few years ago, the outer wall of the aging water tower was severely peeled, and it was about to fall off. "Falling from a dozen meters high, but it is unhappy. It will just fall to our roof." Aunt Ma said.

The street neighborhood committee quickly found the professional construction team to maintain the water tower. The skin that could be removed was shovel, and other places used the fence to surround as much as possible.At the end of July this year, Huangpu District will complete the old transformation below the second level.Buildings 68 and 67, Jianguo East Road, 143 Lane of Jianguo East Road, will soon sign a two -wheeled contract on the old change of old reforms this weekend.Finally, the "Aunt Ma" will also bid farewell to the snail life under the water tower.

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