RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1975 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/j0995146d Site 10 ** ל3 11 12 : .. 16 • 1. 17 : Site 20 22 > 29B J 29C * 30A : ** : = ** 33 34 41A 43A 45A + 46A + by NOTES AND QUERIES 299 Tenement houses at nos. 62-72, Po Hing Fong, Temples, etc. at intersection of Pound Lane and Tai Ping Shan Street. Corner of Hollywood Road and Tank Lane. Possession Point. Possession Street. Schedule 2 : Street lamps in Lower Albert Road. +4 Dairy Farm building, Lower Albert Road. Shing Wong Street. Junction of Bridges and Shing Wong Streets. Carpenter's booth in Shing Wong Street. No. 115 Caine Road. Poon Yau Hoy Mansion, 99 Caine Road, No. 47 Staunton Street, Letter writer's booth, Peel Street. Nos. 61-69 Caine Road. No. 49 Elgin Street. Schedule 3 Ohel Leah Synagogue, Robinson Road. House at junction of Robinson Road with Seymour Road. Site 49 52 56 : 68 : ** Old Police Quarters, 150-156 Caine Road. Ying Wah Terrace. The following persons, to all of whom the thanks of the Society are due, have been involved in this project: R.A.S. Subcommittee on the Photographic Survey A. I. Diamond J. W. Hayes H. A. Rydings C. T. Smith H. Werle Preparation of Schedules A.I. & I.R. Diamond J. W. Hayes ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1987 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/rx919b522 285 the stream, waterfalls and gardens returned. It had been an impressive show, enlivened by the little comedy of the amiable man and the two girls. JAMES HAYES NOTES ON TEMPLES AND SHRINES, HONG KONG ISLAND The 1983 Journal contains my article about urban shrines and temples, written largely from the organizational and managerial aspects. See "Secular Non-Gentry Leadership of Temple and Shrine Organizations in Urban British Hong Kong”, in JHKRBAS 23 (1983), pp. 113-136. The present Note refers to one of the shrines examined in the article, the Earth God shrine at Sheung Fung Lane, Sai Ying Pun at pp. 121-124 therein: and to another in the urban area of Hong Kong Island which was not included. This second shrine is the Pak Kung altar at Peel Street in the Central District, just below the junction of Peel and Staunton Streets. Sheung Fung Lane On 9th February 1974, when serving in the Urban Services Department as Assistant Director of Urban Services (Hong Kong Island) I attended the opening of the celebrations marking the god's birthday which falls in the first lunar month. There was a pailau (M) or ornamental arch at the junction of Queen's Road West with Centre Street. The stage for the customary puppet opera performances, together with its adjacent temporary altar, both made of bamboo, were assembled in a nearby public playground. The whole frontage of the combined stage and shrine constituted another pailau. Ribbons were stretched across the whole frontage, with another ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1997 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/wp98g7579 138 likely each walled, using courtyards to form internal spaces for living and congregating and no formal external spaces for public gatherings. The latter structures were erected by Portuguese engineers, naval officers and church officials according to the general principles of building of their culture and time. The city was immediately divided into two - a fortified western city and housing for the Chinese outside the walls. In the course of these first three centuries of occupation, we see a growing formalisation of the city. The earliest map we can find of the city is one published in 1796 by Sir George Staunton in his report on the Macartney embassy to China (Hong Kong Museum of Art 1996). Redrawn for clarity here as Figure 1, the original is annotated to identify six forts, three parishes, two colleges, four convents, four chapels and sixteen locations of note, including two Chinese temples. There are obvious mistakes in the overall shoreline when compared to more modern surveys but the form of the city can be seen. The inner and primary harbour is on the northwest shore which is more protected. The outer harbour on the southeast, the Praia Grande, is lined with buildings, Figure 1: 1796 including the governor's house, the houses of leading traders and significant ecclesiastical institutions. At the southern tip is a hill on which forts and churches stand, with temples as its base. The urban pattern is one that urban theorists in Europe such as Camillo Sitte would be familiar with and perhaps use as an exemplar. Organic growth between the Praia Grande and the harbour has led to narrow winding streets that open into wider intersections. Plazas are formed adjacent to the significant churches. A large market square is found in the middle of the city. The fabric of the city is woven from filaments of narrow lanes and nodes where people gather. Although we have no earlier maps of the city, the same pattern can be seen in the 1598 engraving of Macao (Amacao) by Theodore de Bry (Hong Kong Museum of Art 1996) with the Praia, the harbour, squares and churches. Looking at the 1898 map (Figure 2, from Hurley 1898), we see the ================================================================================