Historical Tours in Hong Kong and Macao

Western

This walk will take in many of the locations associated with the early settlement of Hong Kong as a British colony.  The walk will start at Western Market, on Connaught Road West, and finish at the main building of Hong Kong University on Bonham Road. Along the way we will visit Possession Point, the site of the raising of the British flag over Hong Kong in 1841, and discuss the circumstances surrounding the founding of Hong Kong and the conditions that prevailed in the early colony.

We will visit the Man Mo Temple on Hollywood Road and discuss the role of its temple committee in the development of Chinese representative associations in Hong Kong, a theme that will be returned to later in the walk.

We will visit the oldest area of urban Hong Kong, Tai Ping Shan, and discuss its role and evolution.  Tai Ping Shan was the site of a major outbreak of bubonic plague in 1849, and we will discuss this situation, and its significance in the development of public health and sanitation in Hong Kong.

We will also take in a number of To Tei, or Earth God, Shrines in this area, an interesting persistence of rural Chinese customs in a modern urban context.

As we walk from Tai Ping Shan towards Sai Ying Poon we will discuss the development of education in Hong Kong, with reference to King’s College and Hong Kong University.

At the University we will learn something of the role the University buildings played during the battle against the Japanese in December 1941. We will finish our walk at Hong Kong University.

The talk will be illustrated by a number of old photographs of the area, and enlivened by anecdotes relating to the area and its interesting past.

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