old name for Tai Hang vicinity. This rivulet is now run underground, but at the time had a small islet at the mouth, and a path marked "public thoroughfare" crossing it: the pathway must have been taken over the stream by an old causeway. Here, definitely, is the reason for the bay being so named, and another "mystery" has been run to earth!
In the Wongneichong area, at back of the old village, are shown several houses, evidently those originally built by European residents. I recollect one of these, probably the last to remain standing, which was unroofed in the typhoon of 1923, and was demolished the following year. In the near vicinity is now the Jewish cemetery, all that remains of the link with the past. This cemetery was, so far as can at present be ascertained, established in the Fifties.
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On what used to be Morrison Hill, the old plans we are dealing with show two houses, these being respectively marked as the premises of the Morrison Education Society and the Medical Mission Society. On the site of the present Naval Hospital (some years later known as Mount Shadwell) is shown the original Seamen's Hospital, and nearer the seaward side is shown Anderson's Bungalow (which is the present doctors' quarters) then occupied by Dr. A. Anderson, the Assistant Surgeon.
Next, at the eastern end of the Wanchai locality, just below the hill on which the hospital was built, we find the Albany Godowns. It is worth noting that a sketch plan in the late Fifties indicates that these buildings were by then in ruins - they must have been about the oldest godowns ever built in the Colony, and the name is perpetuated in the Albany, built a few years later.
Coming nearer town we find, on the south side of Queen's Road, the Roman Catholic and Protestant burial grounds, in the vicinity of the present St. Francis Yard. This aspect of the old Colony has already been dealt with, when mention was made of the removal of the cemeteries to Happy Valley in 1845.
At the back of the present military guard house at the head of Arsenal Street we find a military hospital, and almost adjoining are the East Barracks (distinguishing them from the West Barracks, already noted in previous references, at Taipingshan). On the seafront nearby, where Wellington Barracks now abut, is shown a four-gun battery, (known as the East Battery, according to old military maps.) A little further westward, where the naval and military lands now adjoin, is shown the Ouchterlong Bazaar (evidently our friend Captain Morgan again.) In view of certain names which still remain, such as Jardines Bazaar and Gilmans Bazaar, it seems that various shopping or marketing centres were thus named after merchants of old. The Canton Bazaar is shown on its well-known site, recently dealt with. Near West Point, as we now know it, is marked an Upper Bazaar, on somewhat rising ground, while a Lower Bazaar is shown a little seaward. However, let us return to the Centre of the city.
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old name for Tai Hang vicinity. This rivulet is now run underground, but at the time had a small islet at the mouth, and a path ziarked "public thoroughfare" crossing it: the pathway must have been taken over the strean by an old causeway. Here, definitely, is the reason for the bay being so naned, and another "mystery" has been run to earth!
In the Wongneichong area, at back of the old village, are shown several houses, evidently those originally built by European residents. I recollect one of these, probably the last to remain standing, which was unroofed in the typhoon of 1923, and was demolished the following year, In the near vicinity is now the Jewish cemetery, all that remains of the link with the past. This cerietery was, so far as can at present be ascertained, established in the Fifties.
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On what used to be Morrison Hill, the old plans we are dealing with show two houses, these being respectively marked as the premises of the horrison Education Society and the Medical Mission Society. On the site of the present Naval Hospital (some years later known as Mount Shadwell} is shown the original Seamen's Hospital, and nearer the seaward side is shown. Anderson's Bungalow (which is the present doctors' quarters) then occupied by Dr. A. Anderson, the Assistant Surgeon.
Next, at the eastern end of the Wanchai locality, just below the hill on which the hospital was built, we find the Albany Godowns. It is worth noting that a sketch plan in the late Fifties indicates that these buildings were by then in ruins - they must have been about the oldest godowns ever built in the Colony, and the name is perpetuated in the Albany, built a few years later.
Coming nearer town we find, on the south side of Queen's Road, the Roman Catholic and Protestant burial grounds, in the vicinity of the present St. Francis Yard. This aspect of the old Colony has already been delat with, when mention was made of the removal of the cemeteries to Happy Valley in 1845.
At the back of the present military guard house at the head of Arsenal Street we find a military hospital, and almost adjoining are the East Barracks (distinguishing them from the West Barracks, already noted in previous references, at Taipingshan). On the seafront nearby, where Wellington Barracks now abut, is shown a four-gun battery, (known as the East Battery, according to old military maps.) A little further westward, where the naval and military lands now adjoin, is shown the Ouchterlong Bazaar (evidently our friend Captain Morgan again.) In view of certain names which still remain, such as Jardines Bazaar and Gilmans Bazaar, it seems that various shopping or marketing centres were thus named after mecchants of old. The Canton Bazaar is shown on its well-known site, recently dealt with. Near West Point, as we now know it, is marked an Upper Bazaar, on somewhat rising ground, while a Lower Bazaar is shown a little sea. However, let us return to the Centre of the city.
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