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A new military hospital has now been built facing Jordan Road on the site of the old gun shed and the barrack buildings started a new stage in their history when the PLA moved in after the handover of sovereignty to China in 1997.
REFERENCES
NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS (PRO)
"Horse Lines on the Kowloon Plains Over 100 Years Ago”, Hong Kong Then & Now series, Sept. 16, 1973.
"Transformation of Sleepy Chatham Road”, Hong Kong Then & Now series, May 5, 1978.
"Tsimshatsui's Little Portugal", Hong Kong Then & Now series, Nov. 26, 1978.
"Healthy Military Sites" by Colin Crisswell, The Vanishing City series, South China Morning Post, Jan. 1, 1978.
"An Army Home for Over a Century", by Neil Pereira, Hong Kong Then & Now series, July 29, 1979.
"The Street Where You Live” Chatham Road - the End of an Era", by Kavita Daswani, Dimensions in Living, Nov. 1986.
BOOKS
"British & Indian Armies on the China Coast 1795 - 1985", by Alan Harfield, A & J Partnership, 1990
"The Guns & Gunners of Hong Kong”, by Denis Rollo, The Gunners Roll of Hong Kong, 1992.