Current condition
Demolished / No longer exists
Date completed
(Day, Month, & Year are approximate.)
Date closed / demolished
(Day, Month, & Year are approximate.)
Previously it was at the entrance to Jardine's grand houses at East Point Hill, see https://gwulo.com/node/51395
Later it was relocated here.
It was then moved a second time to the entrance of the Jockey Club's Beas River site, and that's where it stands today. See http://gwulo.com/node/19703.
Comments
re: jardine's gate
the drawing and photo in this list of pictures seems to show the original gate location was where Leighton Road bends around Leighton Hill, opposite the PCCW building
http://gwulo.com/node/6257
also the description of Number 1 police station suggests it was opposite the main entrance to Jardine's houses
http://gwulo.com/node/16225
Dates
Mossdey notes there are dates given at http://www.hkmemory.org/lux/en/002c.html:
History of the stone gateway
I have posted a rather detail account on the history of the Jardine's stone gateway in FB Wanchai Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/hkwanchai/posts/10158606949867387/
This is not the second location of the gateway, but the third.
The original location as we all know was at the foot of the ex-East Point Hill. East Point Hill was sold to Lee Hysan in 1923, but the gateway stood there until 1925.
In 1925, JM&Co, bought the lot between No. 1 Police station (i.e. today's PCCW station) and Po Leung Kok, built a stable there to accommodate their horses and relocated the gateway there as an entrance (2nd location). After the 2nd WW, the site was rented to a school.
In 1955, the lot was sold, the stable/school was rebuilt into Leigyinn Building and Lai Chi Building. The gateway was dismantled and stored at Jardine's East Point warehouses.
In 1958, the gateway was re-erected as the entrance to Jardine's East Point complex (3rd location) until it was moved again to the club house of HKJC at Beas River in 1972.
History of the stone gateway
Thank you for letting us know the correct history of this gate.
Please could you help make a Place for the gate's 2nd location (https://gwulo.com/node/add/place), then I'll update the other pages to have the correct titles and links.
Regards, David