Victoria Road, Hong Kong Explained

Victoria Road
Location:	Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
Direction A:	South
Terminus A:	Pok Fu Lam Road
Direction B:	North
Terminus B:	Belcher's Street / Cadogan Street
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Victoria Road is a main road near the west shore of Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong connecting Kennedy Town and Wah Fu and an alternative connection of Pok Fu Lam Road. It begins north with Belcher's Street in Kennedy Town and goes along Mount Davis, Sandy Bay, Telegraph Bay and Waterfall Bay and reaches in Kellett Bay.

History

The road opened in 1897, the year of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, celebrating the 60th year of her reign. A stone was laid by Governor Robinson and the road was named Victoria Jubilee Road (Chinese: 域多利慶典道).^[1] The road was without any surfacing and only access to Chinese public cemetery in Kellett Bay. In 1903, Hong Kong Government erected a stone at the road in Kennedy Town to mark the boundary of Victoria City.

Notable buildings

• The medical faculty of the University of Hong Kong
• Baguio Villa
• Former Victoria Road Detention Centre aka. Mount Davis Concentration Camp (Chinese: 摩星嶺集中營), which was used by the Special Branch of the Royal Hong Kong Police Force to hold political prisoners during the 1967 Leftist riots.^{[2] [3]} The compound is listed as a Grade III historic building.^[4] Currently the building has been renovated and has been integrated into the Hong Kong campus of the University of Chicago.
• Villa Cecil, the residential complex home to billionaire Cecil Chao
• Hong Kong Chinese Christian Churches Union Pok Fu Lam Road Cemetery, a cemetery is managed by The Hong Kong Chinese Christian Churches Union. It was built in 1882.^[5]

See also

• List of places named after Queen Victoria
• List of streets and roads in Hong Kong

External links

• Google Maps of Victoria Road

Notes and References

1. Book: Signs of a Colonial Era. Yanne. Andrew. Heller. Gillis. 2009. Hong Kong University Press. 10, 59. 9789622099449.
2. Web site: Brief Information on proposed Grade III Items. Item #150 . 2012-02-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130922201512/http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/ce/Museum/Monument/form/Brief_Information_on_proposed_Grade_III_Items.pdf . 2013-09-22 . dead .
3. Book: Cheung, Gary Ka-wai . 1 October 2009. Hong Kong's Watershed: The 1967 Riots. Hong Kong University Press. 84, 93, 205 . 9789622090897 .
4. http://www.aab.gov.hk/form/AAB-SM-chi.pdf List of the 1,444 Historic Buildings in Building Assessment
5. Web site: The Terraced Cemetery of Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong. Kaushik. Patowary. Amusing Planet. 4 June 2014. 16 April 2021.