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Kennedy Town Police Station (2nd location) [1900-1969]

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Submitted by David on Wed, 2013-10-30 21:21
Current condition: 
Demolished / No longer exists
Date Place completed: 
1900-10-01
Date Place demolished: 
c.1969-12-31 (Month, Day are approximate)

Moddsey found this description of the Police Station:

1900 PWD Annual Report

A new Police Station was built on a site selected above the Cattle Depot on the road leading to Pokfulam and completed on 1 October 1900.

The previous Police Station in Kennedy Town (see http://gwulo.com/node/17695) had been converted for use as a hospital.

The marker location is a guess. I haven't seen it marked on any maps yet - if you know where it was, please let us know. [UPDATED: Marker moved to correct position based on comments below.]

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Police Station
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Photos that show this place

1904
1930

Comments

Submitted by Jade LING on Wed, 2020-02-12 18:06.

該位置已在地圖GSGS3868上標記。您可以在互聯網上搜索。

 

Submitted by Klaus on Fri, 2020-02-14 21:49.

Jade Ling posted a 1930's map where the location is shown. The marker should be more to the east at the bend of todays Pokfield Road.

42302s.jpg
42302s.jpg, by Jade LING

Submitted by David on Wed, 2020-02-19 19:32.

Thanks Jade and Klaus, I've moved the marker to the correct location.

Looking at the maps at http://www.hkmaps.hk/mapviewer.html, I see that "Map 1922" is a good one for locating Police Stations.

Submitted by fungchai16 on Thu, 2020-04-30 21:08.

Hi,

According to "GEO REPORT No. 152" prepared by the CEDD department of HK (Link: https://www.cedd.gov.hk/filemanager/eng/content_307/er152_links.pdf , a slope incident report), the "figure 3 site history" mentions that off the slope of Pokfield Road near the University Heights there were buildings and platform appeared from 1901 to 1969.

This piece of information match the background information related to the "second generation police station" mentioned in this discussion dialogue.

By the way, the figure 5 of the report shows the end of Rock Hill Street in the past.

I hope it is a useful material.

(My name is Chai. I like studying hong kong old photos very much. l like researching into the Sai Wan District very recently.)

Regards, Chai

Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2020-05-02 14:33.

Thanks Chai, I've set the demolition date to 1969.