Diocesan Boys School - 1st location - IL 831 [????-????]
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Submitted by annelisec on Sun, 2011-04-10 14:27
Current condition:
Demolished / No longer exists
jabberjabber wrote:
The "Diocesan Home and Orphanage" was founded in 1869, replacing the "Diocesan Native Female Training School". It admitted boys and girls, and occupied the building at the corner of Eastern Street and Bonham Road.
By 1892 all the girls were transferred to the Fairlea School (later Heep Yunn). The Diocesan Home and Orphanage was renamed the "Diocesan School and Orphanage" and took in boys only.
In 1902 the school was again renamed and became the "Diocesan Boys' School and Orphanage".
DBS moved to its new campus in Kowloon in 1926. But the military took over the buildings for use as a hospital in 1927-28.
(copied from http://gwulo.com/node/8586)
Lots more available at the Public Records Office.
Photos that show this place
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The Diocesan Home and
The Diocesan Home and Orphanage, situated on Bonham Road was started in the year 1859, by Bishop Smith, as a native training school. It attains to about the same measure of success as the St. Paul's College, being under the same directorship.
Source: The Tourist's Guide to Hong Kong, with short trips to the Mainland of China (1897) by HURLEY, R. C.