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Grampian Road [c.1925- ]

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Submitted by Klaus on Sat, 2020-10-03 22:06
Current condition: 
In use
Date Place completed: 
c.1925-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)

Named after:  Grampian Range in Victoria/Australia (see comment below)

Details:

Grampian Road  is a 500m long street in Kowloon Tsai. In runs from Boundary Street northward to Dumbarton Road.

Timeline: 

  • 1925: Street constructed (?), houses were built along this road end of the 1920s  
  • 1932: Street named (source)
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Other points of interest: 

 

Tags: 
Kowloon Tsai
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1949

Comments

Submitted by mparker on Sun, 2020-10-18 13:58.

Grampian Road is indeed named after the Grampian range - the one in Victoria, Australia, not Scotland.  The land was purchased and developed by Frederick Charles Mow Fung, an Australian Chinese whose family moved to Hong Kong in 1895. He named the area after the region of Australia where he spent his childhood years. He established the firm of Mow Fung & Co. in the 1910s and was the agent for a popular food tonic called "Sanatogen". Later the firm he jointly owned, the Kowloon Taxicab and Transportation Co,. was one of the pioneers of Hong Kong's taxi business.

Submitted by Klaus on Sun, 2020-10-18 16:45.

Thank you, entry updated.

Submitted by simonarris on Sun, 2020-11-01 17:48.

Also notable as a great vista for photos of the Lion Rock,