Victoria Ridge [c.1932-1954]

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Current condition
Demolished / No longer exists
Date completed
(Year is approximate.)
Date closed / demolished
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According to the document at www.gwulo.com/node/5315, the Peak Hospital (www.gwulo.com/node/5316) was converted into flats called Victoria Ridge in 1932-3. Here are two pics in which Victoria Ridge is the building in the top right corner above the vacant site of the Peak Hotel, demolished in 1938.

Peak Tram, Upper Terminus, by annelisec

Here's what it looked like as Peak Hospital, before conversion. The similarities between its former and converted self are strong.

 

Peak Hospital, by Links Gwulo to Library photos

 

Previous place(s) at this location
Peak Hospital [1889-c.1931]

Photos that show this Place

Looted houses on the Peak
1945
1940s Upper Peak Tram Terminus
1949
Peak Tram, Upper Terminus
1940s
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Comments

This pic of the site formerly occupied by Victoria Ridge is dated 1953 on eternal 1966s photostream on flickr.

Upper Peak Tram Terminus, by eternal 1966

 

Shouldn't the marker for this site coincide with the one for the Peak Hospital? This marker appears to coincide with where the hotel was.

The China Mail of 1st April 1954 carries an article headlined, "Old Peak Site Being Leveled". 

The article states that the site of "the old Peak Hospital and Dr. Harston's residence...is now being demolished". The site being referred to is that of Victoria Ridge apartments and Formosa because, as noted above, the old Peak Hospital had been converted into the Victoria Ridge apartments in 1932/3. A Dr G Montague Harston gave his address as 22 The Peak in the 1919 Jury List. From 1914 to 1924, the house named "Formosa", which stood next to the old Peak Hospital had the address 22 The Peak.  

The article goes on to say that the lease had "expired a few months ago and the property reverted to Government, who are now taking the opportunity of tidying up the skyline, by removing what they consider to be an unhygienic and dangerous eyesore".

So it seems that neither Victoria Ridge apartments nor Formosa were repaired after suffering war damage in December 1941 and both were demolished in 1954. I've amended the demolition date above.