Spring Garden Lane
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| Location | Wan Chai |
| South end | Kennedy Road |
| Major junctions | Queen's Road East |
| North end | Johnston Road |
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| Completion | 1840s |
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Spring Garden Lane (Chinese: 春園街) is a street in Wan Chai, Hong Kong, connecting Queen's Road East to its south, and Johnston Road to the north. It was one of the first focal areas developed by the British in Hong Kong during the 1840s.
History
During the early development of Wan Chai, one of the focal area of development was Spring Gardens. The name was used by the British during the early colonial Hong Kong era in the 1840s.[2] The word "spring" in "Spring Gardens" was supposed to be referring to a water spring. However, when the name "Spring Garden Lane" was translated into Chinese, the resulting name became "Template:Zh", with the character "Template:Zh" meaning spring season.[3] The water spring mentioned possibly refers to the mountain creek beside Hopewell Centre in Queen's Road East.
In the early 1900s, Spring Garden Lane and Sam Pan Street (Template:Zh) became a red-light district with western and eastern prostitutes. To attract attention, brothels were displaying large street number plates, and the area became known as "Big Number Brothels".[4][5]
During the founding of the People's Republic of China around 1948 to 1949, many of the Communist party guerrilla forces found their way to Hong Kong after World War II. One of them was the East River Guerrilla Force (Template:Zh), which formed a pro-Communist underground group called the Hailiushe (Template:Zh). They were headquartered in the rooftop of a multi-story house on Spring Garden Lane. The area and group was raided by the Hong Kong police, while it was an operating network cell.[6]
Around Spring Garden Lane are Lee Tung Street, Swatow Street and Amoy Street where warehouses abounded, storing cargoes to be shipped to Chinese coastline cities.
Intersections
The entire street is in Wan Chai, Wan Chai District.
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See also
- Queen's Road East, for a list of lanes connecting Johnston Road and Queen's Road East
References
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- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.OpenStreetMap contributors. Spring Garden Lane (Map). OpenStreetMap. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
{{cite map}}:|author=has generic name (help) - ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Wordie, Jason (2002). Streets: Exploring Hong Kong Island. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. ISBN 962-209-563-1.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Pang, Diana (25 December 2022). "Foreign influence Part 1: Lost in translation, Hong Kong's weird and wonderful street names". Hong Kong Free Press HKFP.
- ^ "Early Hong Kong Brothels", Exhibition at the University Museum and Art Gallery, 26 November 2003 to 29 February 2004
- ^ Wan Chai Heritage Trail flyer. p.2 Script error: No such module "webarchive".
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Fung, Chi Ming (2005). Reluctant Heroes: Rickshaw Pullers in Hong Kong and Canton, 1874–1954. Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch Hong Kong studies series. Hong Kong University Press. ISBN 978-962-209-734-6.
External links
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- Picture of "Big Number Houses" on gwulo.com
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