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Central and Western Heritage Trail

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Map of Sheung Wan Route Section B
London Mission Building Commemorative Plaque for Dr James Legge Original Site of Central School Original Site of Queen's College Original Site of the American Congregational Mission Preaching House Man Mo Temple Chinese Young Men's Christian Association of Hong Kong (Chinese YMCA) Old Pathological Institute (Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences) Original Site of the Police Officers' Quarters-Caine Road Hop Yat Church Original Site of Tong Meng Hui Reception Centre Commemorative Plaque for the Outbreak of the Bubonic Plague in 1894 Kwong Fook I Tsz Tai Ping Shan Street Tung Wah Hospital Hollywood Road Original Site of the Possession Point (Shui Hang Hau) Original Site of the Tai Tat Tei Original Site of Ko Shing Theatre Bonham Strand Original Site of the Nam Pak Hong Union Original Site of the Western Market (South Block) (Sheung Wan Complex) Western Market (North Block)
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Original Site of the Possession Point (Shui Hang Hau)

Hollywood Road Park

Before Hong Kong grew into a city, this site was located on a shorefront lane (now Hollywood Road) and was originally named Tai Hang Hau (‘Big Puddle’) after the water that collected here from a stream that flowed down from the Peak into Victoria Harbour. This is where British soldiers landed in 1841 to claim Hong Kong, and it was therefore named Possession Point. The ‘big puddle’ was filled in and Possession Street was built over it. The name in Chinese is 'Shui Hang Hau Street', a reference to the mouth of the stream that once discharged its waters here.

Original Site of the Possession Point (Shui Hang Hau) (c.1930)
(c.1930)
Original Site of the Possession Point (Shui Hang Hau)
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