Royal Battery, Central [c.1846-c.1884]

Submitted by Rob on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 21:43
Current condition
Demolished / No longer exists
Date completed
(Year is approximate.)
Date closed / demolished
(Day, Month, & Year are approximate.)

Year completed is: Approximate
Condition at last visit: Demolished
Date of last visit: Jul-1998
Ref: ROB-00149
Other: May have been called Central Bty.

Timeline:

  • 1845: Proposed 9 gun Bty.  (WO 78/479).
  • 1846: A sum of £11,717 for erecting a Battery, to be called Central or Royal Bty.  (WO 1/598).
  • 1882: Royal Bty marked on waterfront adjacent buildings of North Barracks.  (MPHH 1/465).
  • 1886: The area previously marked for Royal Bty now a Public Recreation Ground.  (WO 78/811).

For a background to these notes, and a glossary of terms used, please see: http://gwulo.com/node/24630

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Panorama of Hong Kong from Government House, showing the Fleet for North China Expedition
1860

Comments

Yes, definitely not out in the harbour. Must have got my conversion numbers wrong.

The earliest I have is a map with the proposed position of Central Battery marked on it, dated 13th Jan 1846. It shows the position of a multi-gun batteryalmost on the (then) shoreline immediately northwest of what would become North Barracks. Later maps show the outline still on the coastline but more reclamation has started changing the area, and a track (road?) called Murray Pier Road passes between North Barracks and the battery outline. On a 1904 map, the road is now Murray Road, the outline has gone, and the reference area now called Hong Kong Cricket Ground. Sometime later it became Chater Gardens apparently. (Start queuing now to tell me that statement is incorrect.)