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Jordan Road [c.1895- ]

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Submitted by Klaus on Tue, 2019-07-23 23:11
Current condition: 
In use
Date Place completed: 
c.1895-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)

Named after: Sir John Jordan, the British Minister to China from 1906 to 1920

Details: Jordan Road is about 1,7 km (1,1 miles) long and runs from Ferry Point to Gascoigne Road

Timeline: 

The street was built in several phases and renamed later

  • 1895 (approximately): Street first laid out as Sixth Street (parallel to Fifth Street), from Yau Ma Ti shore to Station Street (later Shanghai Street)
  • 1903: Gascoigne Road was constructed. The road bifurcates, one portion communicating with Sixth Street, Yaumati, and the other with an extension of Robinson Road.
  • 1905: Street from Robinson (Nathan) Road to Station (Shanghai) Street finished.
  • 1909: Gascoigne Road South and Sixth Street renamed Jordan Road

Other points of interest: 

Fronde Memorial (moved to Happy Valley Cemetery)

Jordan Road ferry pier #1 [1932-????] (demolished 1996)

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2001

Comments

Submitted by philk on Thu, 2020-01-09 12:19.

There is an article in Wen Wei Po that places the roads construction date as 1887 and claims it was named after a pathologist called G.P Jordan who helped the battle against the plague...but Sir John Jordan makes more sense to me.

http://paper.wenweipo.com/2015/12/12/WH1512120002.htm