Jardine's stone gateway (2nd location) [c.1923-c.1972]

Submitted by David on Wed, 04/23/2014 - 13:24
Current condition
Demolished / No longer exists
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Date closed / demolished
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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.

Photos that show this Place

1960s Street in Causeway Bay
1960s
1969 Jardine's Stone Gateway (2nd Location)
1960s

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Mossdey notes there are dates given at http://www.hkmemory.org/lux/en/002c.html:

In 1923, Jardines sold East Point Hill to the Lee Hysan family. The hill was renamed The Lee Gardens, and Jardines moved the stone gate to Causeway Bay as its warehouse entrance.

When the Causeway Bay warehouse underwent reconstruction in 1972, Jardines sent the stone gate to Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club as a gift.

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.