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No 2 Tank [c.1860-c.1913]

Submitted by Herostratus on Thu, 2016-07-14 12:23
Date Place completed: 
c.1860-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)
Date Place demolished: 
c.1913-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)

Married Police Quarters were completed in 1915 so demolish date set as 1913

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Caine Road
tai ping shan
water supply

Tai Ping Shan Panorama

Submitted by Herostratus on Thu, 2016-05-26 13:17
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1870
Places shown in this photo: 
Dinder [????-????]
No. 8 Police Station (1st Generation) [1870-1895]
Kwong Fuk Ancestral Hall/Pak Sing Temple [1851- ]
London Missionary Society Chapel and Nethersole Dispensary [c.1862-c.1895]
Cheung Tseung Tse Mansion [????-c.1920]
Wilderness [????-????]
Craigengower - Victoria English School [????- ]
"The Castle" [1868-????]
"The Den" [????- ]
"The Hut" [????- ]
Glenseskin [????-????]
Unknown / No. 8 Police Station (2nd generation), IL598 [????-1925]
Idlewild - The Red House [????-????]
Beauregard - London Missionary Society (LMS) Compound - IL 590 [????-????]
London Mission Chapter House [????- ]
Tung Hing theatre [1867-1912]
Tung Wah Hospital [1872-????]

View looking East towards Central Mid-Levels from just above the Tung Wah Hospital Site. The labeled buildings are: 

 

A Unknown Building on Bridges Street just to the west of Ladder Street

B Dinder

C Original No 8 Police Station. Just below it is the  Kwong Fuk Ancestral Hall

D  London Missionary Society Chapel and Nethersole Dispensary 1881-1895 – chapel  c1862

F ? North of Rozario Street - lot owned by Procurator For the Dominican Missions on IL 421

No. 8 Police Station (1st Generation) [1870-1895]

Submitted by Herostratus on Thu, 2016-05-26 12:27
Date Place completed: 
c.1870-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)
Date Place demolished: 
c.1895-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)

The first No. 8 Police Station was built here in 1870, and stood on Po Yee Street, formerly known as Station Street. Upper Station Street is an adjoining diagonal street leading up to the Mid-Levels. The 1894 plague broke out in the streets of the Tai Ping Shan area, a densely populated Chinese slum with appalling sanitary conditions. To wipe out the plague virus, the Government tore down all the buildings in that area, including the No. 8 Police Station, which was relocated to the nearby Hospital Road.

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Police Station
tai ping shan

Tung Hing theatre [1867-1912]

Submitted by Herostratus on Thu, 2016-05-26 12:20
Date Place completed: 
c.1867-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)
Date Place demolished: 
c.1912-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)

The first purpose built theatre in HK, Tung Hing theatre, was built on the corner of market Street (today named Po-Hing Fong) and Grace street (today called Po Yan Street) This theatre opened in 1867, and was later renamed Chung Hing Yuen. The theatre closed in early 1910.

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theatre
tai ping shan
cinema

London Missionary Society Chapel and Nethersole Dispensary [c.1862-c.1895]

Submitted by Herostratus on Thu, 2016-05-26 12:13
Date Place completed: 
c.1862-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)
Date Place demolished: 
c.1895-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)

The original site of the Nethersole Dispensary is located inside Blake Garden, near the exit to Upper Station Street. It occupied the ground floor of the Taipingshan Chapel of the London Missionary Society at 2 Station Street (now Po Yee Street). 

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church
London Missionary Society
tai ping shan

Kwong Fuk Ancestral Hall/Pak Sing Temple [1851- ]

Submitted by Herostratus on Thu, 2016-05-26 11:59
Date Place completed: 
c.1851-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)

I Tsz (meaning a free Ancestral Hall), was built in 1851 on Taipingshan Street to house ancestral tablets of deceased Chinese mainlanders, many of whom had moved to Hong Kong soon after colonisation by the British, to seek a better living.

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temple
tai ping shan
Tung Wah

Western District c1900

Submitted by Herostratus on Sun, 2016-05-22 19:09
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1900
Places shown in this photo: 
Savoy Court - 101 Robinson Road [1977- ]
London Mission House [1893- ]
Unknown / No. 8 Police Station (2nd generation), IL598 [????-1925]
Nethersole Hospital (original) - 10 Bonham Rd [1893-????]
Rutter Lane Terrace [????-????]
Hospital Road Terrace (1st Generation) [????-????]
1-5 Ripon Terrace (IL1217) [????-????]
Nettlewood - IL 949 [????-c.1968]
Hazledean - IL 942 [????-c.1965]
No 1 Tank [c.1860-????]
Ravenshill - IL 930 [????- ]
Breezy Point (2nd generation) / 2, Park Road [1915-c.1961]
Terra Verte / Terra Verde - IL 946 [1887-????]
Tarrawera (IL94?) [????-????]
Eastley/Gilston (IL1216) [c.1895-????]
Hartley/Botley [c.1895-????]
Westley/Largo [c.1895-????]
Richmond Terrace / Park View / Basilea Terrace, Mid-levels - IL 1216 [c.1880-1954]
IL 591 [????- ]
Berlin Mission / Bethesda Orphanage [1861-????]
Chinese Chamber of Commerce (IL1244) [????-????]
Superintendents House [1885-c.1945]
Medical Staff Quarters / Mental Hospital [1892-1999]
Chinese Lunatic Asylum / Victoria Mental Hospital [1891- ]
Civil Hospital [????- ]
Belvoir Lodge/Ardmore [c.1895-1925]
Edenhall/Sunny Side (IL609) [c.1895-c.1960]
Greenmount [????-????]
Craigellachie [1878-????]
Larkspur - IL 1250 [????- ]
Rose Villa / Diocesan Girls' School - IL 760 [1880-c.1933]
Cringleford [????-c.1954]
Stowford - 12 Bonham Road [????-????]
Breezy Point [1882-????]
Beauregard - London Missionary Society (LMS) Compound - IL 590 [????-????]

Below is the key for the lettered/numbered buildings. Please comment if you can fill in the missing details particularly the dates that the buildings were build/demolished. The date for the photo may be a couple of years shy of 1900 as the Connaguht Road reclamation has not begun.

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