Named after: Sir John Jordan, the British Minister to China from 1906 to 1920
Details: Jordan Road is about 1,7 km (1,1 miles) long and runs from Ferry Point to Gascoigne Road
Timeline:
The street was built in several phases and renamed later
- 1895 (approximately): Street first laid out as Sixth Street (parallel to Fifth Street), from Yau Ma Ti shore to Station Street (later Shanghai Street)
- 1903: Gascoigne Road was constructed. The road bifurcates, one portion communicating with Sixth Street, Yaumati, and the other with an extension of Robinson Road.
- 1905: Street from Robinson (Nathan) Road to Station (Shanghai) Street finished.
- 1909: Gascoigne Road South and Sixth Street renamed Jordan Road
Other points of interest:
Fronde Memorial (moved to Happy Valley Cemetery)
Jordan Road ferry pier #1 [1932-????] (demolished 1996)
Current condition
In use
Date street completed
(Day, Month, & Year are approximate.)
Photos of this street:
(see more)Photos of this street:
2001
Comments
Jordan Road
There is an article in Wen Wei Po that places the roads construction date as 1887 and claims it was named after a pathologist called G.P Jordan who helped the battle against the plague...but Sir John Jordan makes more sense to me.
http://paper.wenweipo.com/2015/12/12/WH1512120002.htm