Shows the Blue Buildings and godowns. The crane at Fenwick Shipyard can be seen. Compared to photos from the 1910s, no reclamation started in front of the praya (today Johnston Road) <Read more ...>
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Named after: the water channel that ran through it.
A creek starting just below (todays) Kennedy Road ran down the hill and drained into Victoria Harbour where (todays) Wanchai Road runs. Possibly as early as the late 1840s, when Queen's Road was built, the creek was diverted and ran covered under the street.
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