Original Quarry Bay School [1926- ]
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Submitted by annelisec on Thu, 2010-01-28 10:50
Current condition:
In use
Date Place completed:
1926-01-01
Grade III, listed historic building
From Facebook Group
"Quarry Bay School , The First One on Kings Road Hong Kong"
It was originally built by The Taikoo company (Swire ) for the children of the ex-pat workers in Taikoo Dockyard.
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Photos that show this place
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1981 - Pui Chi boys home - closed 2007
" ...allocation of the former Quarry Bay School premises to the Social Welfare Department a first step towards their implementation is being taken: this institution will be fitted out and used as a probation home for young offenders below the age of fourteen, thus permitting consequential changes to be made in other institutions ... "
LegCo 1981
"Six existing correctional/residential homes operated by the Social Welfare Department will be merged: the Ma Tau Wai Girls' Home, the Pui Chi Boys' Home, the Begonia Road Juvenile Home, the Fanling Girls' Home, the Sha Tin Boys' Home and the O Pui Shan Boys' Home.
(Government Press Release 2006)
quarry bay junior
it was actually still active school year 1978/9 and run by esf as my brother attended year 6 there.
Quarry Bay Junior School
Quarry Bay Junior School was built by Messrs Little, Adams & Wood and began operating with the beginning of the school year in September 1926. It started off as a school built for the workers children of Taikoo Dock and Taikoo Sugar The school motto was Labore et Honore. The motto can be seen engraved above the ground floor doorway to the main building.
Counting the steps from King's Road
School looking west.
School looking east
School motto
architects of Quarry Bay School
Hiya,
How did you find out it was built by Little, Adams & Wood? Do you by any chance know what other buildings this firm designed in HK? Thanks!
Re: Architects of Quarry Bay School
Type in the names of the architects in http://sunzi1.lib.hku.hk/hkgro/index.jsp
and search for the old PWD Reports.
Fantastic memories of this
Fantastic memories of this school. I attended there from 1975-1980 under Miss McKenzie. As well as the steps, I have vivid memories of the adventure playground, losing countless balls over the fence, school assembly, rounders (lost balls again), the humidity and the funny smell of the drains(!!).
DBHKer
QBS stairs
My goodness, I always thought those stairs were wide but I guess we were just shrimps when we were at school! That photo of the stairs show just how narrow the stairway actually was!
We used to race up and down those stairs twice a day ... no wonder I've had both knees replaced in my dotage - LOL!
Re: QBS Stairs
Thank you for the photo. Brings back memories.
In those days there were not many shops in HK that sold sandals.
quarry bay was the first
quarry bay was the first school I attended in HK in 1951(all of 6 years of age)My memories mainly were of constantly being inoculated or vaccinated against small pox typhoid diptheria yellow fever& what ever else was going around
One of my class mates of the time was Madeline o'connel who now lives on the Isle of Skye &is still in touch(60 years later)
In1941 there was a fair bit of war time action going on in that area & I recall being evacuated from the school because one of the kids came across several hand grenades in the school grounds
It is good to see the school is still there & hopefully will be preserved for posterity
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Quarry Bay School
Moddsey,
Quarry Bay School was not originally a Government School. It was originally built for the workers children of Taikoo Dock and Taikoo Sugar and in the evenings it was used for classes in subjects related to the Dock and Sugar Refinery. When Taikoo Village was built, a new Taikoo School was built along with it and the original school moved to those premises (which subsequently moved to Greig Road and then onto Kings Road). QBS then became the school for the Expat children of the refinery and docks. However, we also allowed interlopers from outside the world of Taikoo as well.
Regards Geoff
Thanks
Thanks Geoff. Corrected..
QBS stairs
A slide that my father took of us racing down the stairs from QBS into the arms of the popsie man, no doubt