Granite marker stone at King's Park

Herman Chan
Tue, 06/27/2023 - 20:13
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Granite marker stone at King's Park
Date picture taken
27 Jun 2023
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King's Park boundary stone [????- ]

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A granite marker stone was noticed while exploring the historic W.D. lot 32 boundary near King's Park.

The size and shape is quite equivalent to a boundary stone.

Hoping that more information can be identified from the library and Government Record search.

A Point marked as "E/F/P" was identified on the print map of "Kowloon" 1:600 137-SW-12 (Ed 1922)" recently bought from the Survey and mapping Office, Hong Kong.

Point E/F/P in the map of Kowloon 1922
Point E/F/P in the map (1922), by Herman Chan

When using the hkmaps viewer (reference map 1922.1), the same "Point" can be identified and the coordinates approximate as follow.

Longitude: 114.17357 Latitude: 22.31160

Using the overlay function of hkmaps viewer, the current location of the "Point" was shown on the open street map.

Location of “Point E/F/P” using the Overlap function
Location of “Point E/F/P” using the Overlap function (hkmaps.hk) , by Herman Chan

For verification of location, the coordinate was input in the "WGS84 LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE" location search function of the Geoinfomap ( https://www.map.gov.hk/gm/ ).

Location of “Point E/F/P” in Geoinfomap (http://www.map.gov.hk/gm )
Location of “Point E/F/P” in Geoinfomap (http://www.map.gov.hk/gm ), by Herman Chan

The location comes close to the granite marker recently identified (Longitude 114.17355 Latitude 22.31158).

Granite marker 27/6/2023 ( http://www.map.gov.hk/gm/s/wgs84/22.31158/114.17355 )
Granite marker 6/2023, by Herman Chan

What is this "Point" denoted on the map 1922? Is it a boundary stone of any lot?  

The coordinates of Point "E/F/P" in 1922, and one of the corner of WD Lot 32 boundary of 1947-1955 are compared with the coordinate of the granite marker being found near King's Park 2023.

Map showing the “Point E/F/P” in 1922
Map showing the “Point E/F/P” in 1922, by Herman Chan
Map showing the “Point E/F/P” in 1947
Map showing the “Point E/F/P” in 1947, by Herman Chan
Map showing the “Point E/F/P” in 1950
Map showing the “Point E/F/P” in 1950, by Herman Chan
Map showing the “Point E/F/P” in 1955
Map showing the “Point E/F/P” in 1955, by Herman Chan

 

Year    Longitude    Latitude 
1922    114.17357     22.31160

1947    114.17365     22.31177
1950    114.17358     22.31162 
1955    114.17359     22.31164

2023    114.17355     22.31158

Any chance of correlation?

Revisted the granite marker on Jan 5 2024.

The pervious dense overgrown surrounding the marker has been largely cleared, probably after typhoon and raining season over the past few months. The buried side engravings can be seen partially.
A great surpise!

Is "PARK" there?

Granite Marker near King's Park
Granite Marker near King's Park, by Herman Chan

 

 

For information.

At the corner of Chi Wo Street and Gascoigne Road, there used to be a King's Park boundary marker at the bottom of the old DGS wall facing Gascoigne Road near the former utility box and electricity pole. The marker could be seen prior to February 2009 and before the new wall was built. The old marker is different to the one recently found and no longer in existence. I have seen a photo of it at:  https://www.uwants.com/viewthread.php?tid=7206167&extra=&page=5###

Unfortunately, work had already commenced on the construction of the new wall when the photo below was taken.

Old Utility Box
Old Utility Box, by moddsey