Everything tagged: hotel

Royal/ Chung Tin buildings

Inland Lot 1724, secured July 1900

Architect was Leigh & Orange

Phase 1 (King Edward Hotel end) completed in 1902, leased to Dhunjeebhoy Dorabjee, severely damaged by fire in March 1929

Rebuilt as office block which opened in 1931 (original façade kept), rebuilt portion renamed Chung Tin Building

Phase 2 completed in 1904, lower five floors leased to Lane Crawford until 1924

After 1924 building was leased as Hotel Savoy which became Hotel Cecil

Jill writes:

In 1859 the National Hotel appears to consist of three tenements “on I.L. 12 A west of Aberdeen Street”, also given in another item as “I.L. 12 A, Queen’s Road.”

An 1856 map (Plate 3-1c, Mapping Hong Kong) shows Inland Lot 12A is the block of land between Queen's Road and Wellington Street, to the west of the Aberdeen Street steps, shown by the marker above.

41 Salisbury Road, TST.

1992 completion date shown on the YMCA website, and the website of Hsin Chong who built it:

1992
YMCA Redevelopment, Tsim Sha Tsui
The project included the construction of a 16-storey multi-functional building with 398 hotel rooms.

From the Public Records Office:

1893 - From the Bay View Hotel, Application for an extention to the present lease.

1898 - Request permission by Mr. J. W. Osborne to sublet the Bay View Hotel

1903 Feb - Recommends the removal of the private reservoir behind the Bay View Hotel, or prohibition of the neighbouring Gardens

1903 - Oct - Re-occupation of the Bay View Hotel by the Police (From AG.Capt. Supt. of Police)

Various directories:

Address: 61 Chatham Road

The Regent Hotel opend in 1980. It is located on 18 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, on the former site of Holt's Wharf.

In 2001 the hotel was sold to the InterContinental group and renamed to InterContinental Hong Kong.

(Source: Wikipedia)

64, Mody Road.

"Names of buildings" gives the "Year Built" as 1980, but a photo from August that year shows the building is still under construction.

Wikipedia says:

The 1961 Golden Guide gives the address as: 140, Austin Road.

Position of marker is approximate.

Philip Cracknell has found a mention in a wartime diary that places it opposite the Ritz in North Point, so it should be somewhere near here.

He also notes that during the Japanese invasion, "The hotel received several direct hits and was burnt down".