No. 184.—It is hereby notified that in order to prevent confusion arising from the existence of duplicate names of streets in Hongkong and Kowloon, His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to direct that the streets in the subjoined list be re-named as shewn therein.
STREETS IN HONGKONG.
Old Names | New Names.
Chater Street | Catchick Street
Albany Street | Tai Yuan Street
East Street | Tung Street
West Street | Sai Street
STREETS IN KOWLOON.
Chater Street | Peking Road
Des Voeux Road | Chatham Road
Garden Road | Hankow Road
Robinson Road | Nathan Road
Macdonnell Road | Canton Road
Elgin Road | Haiphong Road
East Road | Hanoi Road
East Avenue | Sainam Avenue
East Terrace | Wuchow Terrace
STREETS IN YAUMATI.
First Street | Kansu Street
Second Street | Pakhoi Street
Third Street | Saigon Street
Fourth Street | Ningpo Street
Fifth Street | Nanking Street
Kennedy Street | Woosung Street
Seventh Lane | Yunnan Lane
Fuk Shing Lane | Suchow Lane
Macdonnell Road | Canton Road
Station Street North | Shanghai Street
Station Street South | Shanghai Street
Sixth Street | Jordan Road
(to junction with Gascoigne Road.)
Eighth Street | Bowring Street
1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, | Notice boards to be removed with
5th and 6th Lanes | these numbers on them as the
lanes are merely scavenging lanes.
Temple Street is to be continued northwards to Man Ming Lane, Yaumati.
Portland Street is to be continued Southwards to the same point.
STREETS IN MONGKOKTSUI.
Macdonnell Road | Canton Road
Hill Street | Changsha Street
Nullah Lane | Shantung Lane
Station Street North | Shanghai Street
STREETS IN HUNGHOM.
Old Names | New Names.
Des Voeux Road | Chatham Road
Third Lane | Nanning Lane
Hill Street | Tientsin Street
Market Street | Wuhu Street
Station Street | Taku Street
STREETS IN FUNG TSUN HEUNG.
High Street | Newchwang Street
Praya | Chungking Street
Station Street | Foochow Street
F. H. May,
Colonial Secretary.
19th March, 1909.
(A copy of the original is available at http://sunzi1.lib.hku.hk/hkgro/view/g1909/11841.pdf - you may need to click the link twice to access the document.)
wuhu street
Wuhu street, hunghom looking west with the wuhu street market on the north side of wuhu street. North of the market is station lane where a police station used to be located. North of the station lane was the Kun Yam hill with a lot of squatter huts. Possible the picture was taken at the Wuhu street-Ma tau wai road junction. Both the huts and the hill were removed in the 50s to make way for the Whampoa chuen which later was rebuilt as the ka wai chuen which still exists today. It explains why wuhu street was called market street before 1909.
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In the following picture, we are looking east along station lane towards the station lane-ma tau wai junction. One can see the conveyor tower of green island cement co. on ma tau wai road and the partly demolished Kun Yum hill. On the right it looks like it is the rooftop of the wuhu market.
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Another source essentially confirmed the above
Wuhu Street (formerly known as Market Street) in Hung Hom in about 1915 is near the junction of Taku Street, with Hung Hom Market on the right; the mountains near Ho Man Tin can be seen in the background. Due to its proximity to the Whampoa Dockyard and some industrial facilities, the industrial and commercial development of Hung Hom was much more advanced than Tsim Sha Tsui at that time (google translation)
https://www.hkmemory.hk/MHK/collections/postcard/all_items_postcard/Ima…
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Tientsin Street
Tientsin Street (hill street before 1909) no longer exists.
Comparing a 1950 map and a 2021 map, Tientsin Street has become part of Man Tai street. An aereal picture of Tai Wan Shan shows that part was apparently filled with squatter huts without any visible trace of a street. It is reasonable to assume the year was 1976 when Tientsin st was renamed. 1976 was the year when Whampoa estate (黃埔新邨) was built.
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nanning lane, hunghom
Another street Nanning Lane of Hunghom has been dropped from modern maps. It is just a back alley between station lane and wuhu street, bounded by Kun Yam and Marsh streets. It was still there in a 1935 map:
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In the 2022 map, it has disappeared