Current condition
Demolished / No longer exists
Date completed
(Day & Month are approximate.)
Broadwood Terrace, where my grandmother, Hannah Warren was living in 1926, appears in the above position on a 1924 map of Hong Kong Island and Kowloon held by the British Library. Moddsey mentioned that it doesn't appear as an address in the Jurors Lists after 1928, so I wonder if the terrace was renamed.
jill
Later place(s) at this location
Photos that show this Place
1920
1922
1922
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Broadwood Terrace location
It seems that the 19 Broadwood Terrace address for my grandmother, Hannah Warren was a mistake in the newspaper report. For the record, I hope that the following images help to pinpoint the location of Broadwood Terrace for others.
Inception date of Broadwood Terrace 1915?
The Public Works Department Report for 1915 records that 11 European houses were completed at
I L. 2039, Broadwood Road and Broadwood Terrace.
IL 2039 and Broadwood Terrace
I believe the red outline on the 1922 map below shows the IL 2039 mentioned above. The '11 European houses' are in two groups, with three on Broadwood Road (marked in green), and eight in a row along Wong Nai Chung Road (marked in blue) that were very likely the houses known as Broadwood Terrace.
Re: Broadwood Terrace
Hi There,
I have a vague impression that one of these houses survived after the war and was still there in the 1970's, occupied. That would be the one on far left, parallel to Ventris Road, light green highlighted above. As far as I could recall, the design was western and the external wall was sort of concrete grey, with a very heavy front door. It has a metal gate with a small garden facing Broadwood Road.
T
boadwood terrace
Can you remember this?
https://new.gwulo.com/node/58598#17~22.27376~114.18413~Map_by_GovHK-Mar…
Re: broadwood Terrace
Hi There,
Unfortunately no. You see, I am not that old.
The current buildings on site (The Race Course Mansion and the Race Tower) are what I know of since the early 1970s. There used to be a tuck shop which I frequented for pre-packaged snacks and soft drinks back then.
T
ps. Looked up HKMS 2.0 and got this 1969 photo. Not very clear but surely showed what's left of it and the building I rememeber is the sole surviver.
1924
A view of Broadwood Terrace and the three buildings on Broadwood Road in 1924:
Re: 1915 Report on Public Works
Under item 131 of the captioned report, mention is made of the provision of scavenging lanes by the owners of I.L. 2039 which comprised 1-8 Broadwood Terrace and 1-3 Broadwood Road.
This confirms the red outline provided by David with reference to the 1922 map. Nos 1-8 Broadwood Terrace fronted Wong Nai Chung Road.
1938 Street Index
The 1938 Street Index for Wongneichong (today's Wong Nai Chung) Road indicates the eight terraced houses overlooking the racecourse comprised 1-8 Broadwood Terrace. At the time, the address given for Broadwood Terrace was 81-95 Wongneichong Road.
As annotated by David, 1-3 Broadwood Road would be the area shaded in green up the slope above Broadwood Terrace.
I've moved the marker to the…
I've moved the marker to the correct location, added an outline, and changed the status from unknown to demolished.
news report june 27 1929
This news report on june 27 1929 says 5 Broadwood terrace is the same as 87 Wongnaichong rd. It was about its sale for $30,200. It says the term dated from Sept 1913 and there were still 75 years before expiration.