Wild Dell, Wood Road, Wanchai [c.1894-????] | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

Wild Dell, Wood Road, Wanchai [c.1894-????]

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Submitted by annelisec on Tue, 2018-07-24 03:04
Current condition: 
Demolished / No longer exists
Date Place completed: 
c.1894-01-01 (Year is approximate)
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1937

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Submitted by annelisec on Thu, 2018-07-26 19:01.

TENNIS GROUND - RE-RENEWAL OF THE LEASE GRANTED TO THE WILD DELL TENNIS CLUB FOR A - 

17.12.1897 - 08.02.1898

Submitted by annelisec on Thu, 2018-07-26 19:04.

Wild Dell - Boarding House 1905

"a section of Hong Kong known as Wild Dell, where rooms in a secluded house occupied largely by poor Portuguese and Chinese"

“The Filipino chieftains maintaining a ‘provisional government' at Wild Dell, a sequestered nook in the environs of Hong Kong, took up Sandico, using him as a gobetween and an amanuensis."

Collier's Self-Indexing Annual P.F. Collier & Son, 1905

Submitted by annelisec on Thu, 2018-07-26 20:29.

Wild Bell Building

Google maps shows a building on Wanchai Rd at Wood Rd called the Wild Bell building

HK Gov calls it Cheong Chun Bldg with 3 addresses,  Wood Road, Heard Road and Wanchai Road 

Submitted by moddsey on Thu, 2018-10-25 08:57.

In an advert for flats to let to Europeans, the address given for the Wild Dell Buildings facing Wanchai Road is No. 147 Wanchai Road. HK Telegraph 2 January 1908 refers.