Named after: Grampian Range in Victoria/Australia (see comment below)
Details:
Grampian Road is a 500m long street in Kowloon Tsai. In runs from Boundary Street northward to Dumbarton Road.
Timeline:
- 1925: Street constructed (?), houses were built along this road end of the 1920s
- 1932: Street named (source)
Other points of interest:
Current condition
In use
Date street completed
(Day, Month, & Year are approximate.)
Photos of this street:
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1932
1949
1949
Comments
Grampian Road
Grampian Road is indeed named after the Grampian range - the one in Victoria, Australia, not Scotland. The land was purchased and developed by Frederick Charles Mow Fung, an Australian Chinese whose family moved to Hong Kong in 1895. He named the area after the region of Australia where he spent his childhood years. He established the firm of Mow Fung & Co. in the 1910s and was the agent for a popular food tonic called "Sanatogen". Later the firm he jointly owned, the Kowloon Taxicab and Transportation Co,. was one of the pioneers of Hong Kong's taxi business.
Thank you, entry updated.
Thank you, entry updated.
Also notable as a great vista
Also notable as a great vista for photos of the Lion Rock,