This is true of the Ko Shing Theatre, the principal Chinese theatrical house, which despite the fluctuation of public taste and the advent of the cinemas, has weathered the years and continues to draw good houses to its vernacular performances. It was rebuilt on the same site in 1929.
The Tung Hing Theatre is another old Chinese place of entertainment shown here, with the Shing Hing Theatre a little to the north of it. Both have since been demolished, the Tung Hing as recently as 1925.
We find the Civil Hospital, now the Government Civil Hospital, on its present site, with what was known as the Lock Hospital (now incorporated in a ward of the main institution) nearby. The history of this hospital has already been given (see 15-7-33 and 9-10-33). I might briefly recapitulate: the oldest part of the present building is C Block, built in 1861, and is the section shown in this map. The extensions are dated as follow - A Block in 1874, B Block in 1878, and D Block in 1880.
The hospital stands on the site of a predecessor, one of the oldest such institutions in the Colony, which was erected in 1843, and opened in August that year under Dr. Peter Young (being only two months "younger" than the Seamen's Hospital at Wanchai which was opened in June the same year, as a mission hospital). It should be noted that this old institution in the Taipingshan area was originally a hospital for seamen, and Jardine, Matheson and Co. were its sponsors. The Lock Hospital indicates the survival up to the Seventies of the later development of this institution. By 1848 it had become a definitely Government concern, being renamed the Colonial Hospital, and when the distinction from the military and naval institutions became necessary the name Civil Hospital was conferred.
The Chinese Hospital shown in the map is the original Tung Wah institution which was opened in 1872, and is at present being demolished. Its history has already been given (see 30-6-33).
The Diocesan Female School is interesting as marking the original Diocesan Girls' School, which for some years has been located on the other side of the harbour, and is flourishing in Kowloon to-day. The founders of girls' schools attached to the Diocese (Church of England) were Miss Baxter and Miss Magrath, and in the early Sixties they had set the education of Eurasian and Chinese girls on a sound footing.
It is interesting to note the house nearby marked as the location of the Berlin Mission, it being the headquarters of the German missionaries of that time. They co-operated in educational work, and originated the Berlin Foundling house, where Miss Legge assisted in the education of Chinese girls in the late Fifties and on into the Sixties. Later (in 1879) the German community formed a Lutheran Church in connexion with this foundling home, which was also a hospital, and was located on the Pokfulum Road.
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This is true of the Ko Shing Theatre, the principal Chinese theatrical house, which despite the fluctuation
of public taste and the advent of the cinemas, has weathered the years and continues to draw good houses to its vernacular performances. It was rebuilt on the same site in 1929.
The Tung Hing Theatre is another old Chinese place of entertainment shown here, with the Shing Hing Theatre a little to the north of it. Both have since been demolished, the Tung Hing as recently as 1925.
We find the Civil Hospital, now the Government Civil Hospital, on its present site, with what was known as the Lock Hospital (now incorporated in a ward of the main institution) nearby. The history of this hospital has already been given (see 15-7-33 and 9-10-33). I might briefly recapitulate: the oldest part of the present building is C. Block, built in 1861, and is the section shown in this map. The extensions are dated as follow - A Block in 1874, B Block in 1878, and D Block in 1880.
The hospital stands on the site of a predecessor, one of the oldest such institutions in the Colony, which was erected in 1843, and opened in August that year under Dr. Peter Young (being only two months "younger" than the Seamen's Hospital at Wanchai which was opened in June the same year, as a mission hospital). It should be noted that this old institution in the Taipingshan area was originally a hospital for seamen, and Jardine, Matheson and Co. were its sponsors, The Lock, Hospital indicates the survivál up to the Seventies of the later develop- ment of this institution. By 1848 it had become a definitely Government concern, being renamed the Colonial Hospital, and when the distinction from the military and naval institutions became necessary the name Civil Hospital was conferred.
The Chinese Hospital shown in the map is the original Tung Wah institution which was opened in 1872, and is at present being demolished. Its history has already been given (see 30-6-337.
The Diocesan Female School is interesting as marking the original Diocesan Girls' School, which for some years has been located on the other side of the harbour, and is flourishing in Kowloon to-day. The founders of girls' schools attached to the Diocese (Church of England) were Miss Baxter and Miss Magrath, and in the early Sixties
hey had set the education of Eurasian and Chinese girls on a sound footing.
It is interesting to note the house nearby marked as the location of the Berlin Mission, it being the headquarters of the German missionaries of that time. They co-operated in educational work, and originated the Berlin Foundling house, where Miss Legge assisted in the education of Chinese girls in the late Fifties and on into the Sixties. Later (in 1879) the German community formed a Lutheran Church in connexion with this foundling home, which was also a hospital, and was located on the Pokfulum Road.
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