Everything tagged: Western District

Mr F A Hazeland, Clerk to the Justice of the Suprem Court and his family live here for 13 years prior to 1888

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Large building on IL 755, visible in photographs from the 1870s onwards, on the other side of Western Street from Balls Court

Labelled No 40 High Street on the 1901 Map. 

Replaced by tenament houses on the 1920 Street Map. 

It existed until the Summa towers were built

Appears in some of the oldest photos of HK, situated at the top of Water Street 

The Reformatory School and Orphanage, situated at West Point, started by Father T Raimondi of the Italian Mission in 1864 and now under the control of the Vicar Apostolic, — provides education in the native tongue for Chinese boys from the age of eight years.It also takes in and cares for the deaf, the dumb and the blind, and in cases of reformatory treatment finds occupation for its inmates in the learning of useful trades.

Source: The Tourist's Guide to Hong Kong, with short trips to the Mainland of China (1897) by HURLEY, R. C.

Building was originally No 1 Babington Path before becoming No 1 Oaklands Path. Built by the Richmond Easte company in the 1890's. 

Building was likely renamed Ardmore from Oaklands c1900 (although confusingly Oaklands appears in later juror lists), occupied by Butterfield and Swire employee's in the early 1900's. 

IL 1216