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We will assemble at the base of the old KCR clock tower, outside the Tsimshatsui Star Ferry, at 0900 hours. The tour will be of approximately three to four hours’ duration and will focus on remaining buildings and  sites of historical interest in the southern section of the Kowloon
peninsula.
We will learn something of the first British settlement of Kowloon in the 1860s, its pre-British history as a collection of small villages, its growth in the inter-war period, the various
communities that made their homes there, such as the local Portuguese, and its development and transformation since the Second World War.
We will visit the former Marine Police Headquarters on the Kowloon waterfront, originally built in 1883, Signal Hill, near the Regent Hotel with its preserved tower, the soon-to-be-demolished Tsimshatsui
Fire Station, the old Central British School on Nathan Road and the nearby St. Andrew’s Church, which was donated to the community by the Armenian millionaire Sir Paul Chater earlier this century.
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