Kennedy's Horse Repository - Garden Road [????- ]

Submitted by annelisec on Wed, 01/26/2011 - 21:19
Current condition
Unknown

Listed on maps as Livery Stables.

Who has a 1880 map and can place this properly ?

Photos that show this Place

View of Government Hill in Hong Kong
1860
Panorama of Hong Kong from Government House, showing the Fleet for North China Expedition
1860
Panorama of city from scandal point
1869

Comments

Hi Annelise, Are you sure they had a building here? The 1900 Jurors List shows a "5, Garden Road" address for one employee, but then it also shows a "30, Elgin Street" address for another. I wonder if these are just residential addresses, rather than offices or stables?

Regards, David

Hi there,

5 Garden Road..... Don't know if the #5 of present day Garden Road is the same as the #5 back then.  Were there a government staple at Lower Albert Road next to the present day American Consulate back then?  I wonder.......

Best Regards,

T

That's interesting. As Thomas and 80skid say, there's the stables on Lower Albert Road we know about. Seems unlikely that would have a Garden Road address though.

There's a 'livery stables' on this 1880 map (bottom left corner):

Admiralty, 1880

It's inside the military area, so I always assumed it was for the army's horses, but maybe it's the 'horse repository' mentioned above, or at least the horse repository was somewhere nearby?

Regards, David