1-4 Minden Row [1913-????]

The 1913 Public Works Report mentions 9 European houses as being completed on K. I. L. 575, Minden Villas and Minden Row. The huge lot was divided as follows:

a) Five houses built facing Mody Road between Minden Row and a newly constructed road (to be called Blenheim Avenue) and named 1-5 Minden Villas. See here for information on Minden Villas.

b) Four houses built in a north-south arrangement to the west of Minden Row and named 1-4 Minden Row.

Note (1) - Names were given to the house numbers on Minden Row (See 1955 Hong Kong map at https://www.hkmaps.hk/viewer.html)  and 1938 Street Index of City of Victoria etc., Page 254 or Image 470 as follows:

(i) No. 1 - Chiselhurst;

(ii) N0. 2- Beverley (appears to have become a vacant lot by 1952)

(iii) N0. 3 - Penyrhew and

(iv) No. 4 - Cheriton

Note (2) - 1-2 Minden Row were replaced by Peninsula Apartments and Minden Apartments during 1957/58.

Note (3) - 3-4 Minden Row i.e. Penyrhew and Cheriton subsequently became Minden Row Junior School. See here    In 1970 Star Mansion was completed on the building lots.