Everything tagged: Barker Road

RBL 50. No 510 on 1924 Map

RBL 50. No 509 on 1924 Map

Prof. Lawrence Lai from HKU writes about houses on the Peak after WW2*:

Meanwhile, the work of termites, looters hunting for valuables and firewood and the sub-tropical humid climate of Hong Kong ruined the European houses that survived the Battle of Hong Kong and the inaccuracy of the Allied bombings.

This is on RBL 106 (Barker Road). The land sale (public auction sale) for this lot started in April 1901.

Today Headquarters House at 11, BArker Road is located.

Centadata says:

Date of occupation 04/1974, 6 floors, 12 units

Bracken Hill was built on the former site of Crow's Nest. It is situated at 12, Barker Road. The number was changed in 1996, before that date is was No.14. See Peak Map from 1960.

Crow's Nest (or Crows Nest) was a building on (toadys No.12) Barker Road below the former Victoria Hospital, its lot is RBL 100. It first appears on the 1909 map (there its number is 133). On the 1912 map its visible with a road leading from Barker Road to Crow's Nest:

 Excerpt from "Assessment of 1444 Historic Buildings" by the Antiquities and Monuments Office

List of the 1,444 Historic Buildings in Building Assessment (as of 23 October 2015).