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Further west still, on the edge of Four Funnel Bay, is a fort containing a large gun emplacement (complete with large gun) and extensive underground magazines and chambers. South from here takes one along the former "Queen's Road" past a number of buildings including the former Royal Marines barracks and the officers mess.
Back to the harbour front and the mass of naval storage and commercial buildings that we saw from the ferry. The map shows these as being the victualling store, the blacksmith's shop, the fire engine house and other evocative descriptions. Standing four-square with no obvious means of entry, and clearly visible from the sea as the tallest of the buildings, is the distillery - as vital to a naval station as any of the other facilities there. Running through the buildings and along the little streets are tram tracks. An extensive system used to enable goods to be unloaded at the end of the pier from incoming ships and moved for storage.
A fascinating and well-preserved place to just “poke about,” Liu Kung Tau was a gem and a highlight of the trip.
Dalian - Far Away, by Whatever Name
We had been advised by the travel agent to cross to Dalian from Yantai rather than take the service from Weihai. The boats, we were told, are better and faster. Not many weeks after our trip we were to hear of the tragedy whereby almost 300 people lost their lives when one of the Yantai boats went down in heavy seas.
Our three-hour crossing was relatively calm, although many of the local passengers spent most of the time being rather noisily “uncomfortable" into plastic bags and other containers.
The first sight that greeted us at the dockside was a large banner in stirring Chinese characters, the sort that you always see in China extolling the virtues of this or that, or exhorting the people to even greater achievements. This one had an English translation that said something like: "Make Dalian the successful tourist port with successful business and multifunction." I like to think that we lived up to this entreaty during our stay.
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Further west still, on the edge of Four Funnel Bay, is a fort con- taining a large gun emplacement (complete with large gun) and exten- sive underground magazines and chambers. South from here takes one along the former "Queen's Road" past a number of buildings in- cluding the former Royal Marines barracks and the officers mess.
Back to the harbour front and the mass of naval storage and com- mercial buildings that we saw from the ferry. The map shows these as being the victualling store, the blacksmith's shop, the fire engine house and other evocative descriptions. Standing four-square with no obvi- ous means of entry, and clearly visible from the sea as the tallest of the buildings, is the distillery - as vital to a naval station as any of the other facilities there. Running through the buildings and along the little streets are tram tracks. An extensive system used to enable goods to be un- loaded at the end of the pier from incoming ships and moved for storage.
A fascinating a well-preserved place to just “poke about,” Liu Kung Tau was a gem and a highlight of the trip.
Dalian - Far Away, by Whatever Name
We had been advised by the travel agent to cross to Dalian from Yantai rather than take the service from Weihai. The boats, we were told, are better and faster. Not many weeks after our trip we were to hear of the tragedy whereby almost 300 people lost their lives when one of the Yantai boats went down in heavy seas.
Our three-hour crossing was relatively calm, although many of the local passengers spent most of the time being rather noisily “un- comfortable" into plastic bags and other containers.
The first sight that greeted us at the dockside was a large banner in stirring Chinese characters, the sort that you always see in China extol- ling the virtues of this or that, or exhorting the people to even greater achievements. This one had an English translation that said something like: "Make Dalian the successful tourist port with successful business lived up to this entreaty
and multifunction." I like to think that weh successful business
during our stay.
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