The governor's residence, located at 1, Battery Path, Central, was built in 1842-43. The present three-story building that housed the French Mission and later the Court of Final Appeal was built in 1917.
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A request. When the readers email me, please type “Hong Kong's First” in the subject blank. I have a good habit of deleting emails from senders I don't know... I don't want to throw away yours. Thanks. February 18, 2012I had no internet connection, and no phone line since I moved to my present residence in November 2010. How was that possible? Well, stranger things have happened in Hong Kong. Anyways, I am glad that I am reconnected, at last. Will begin writing real soon. November 11, 2011
Now that I am more than a year into this history thing, I can clearly confirm that there are a lot more I didn’t know about Hong Kong than what I already learnt. October 17, 2010
A number of the Posts end with not “End”, but “To Be Completed” mostly for the reason that I like to hop around topics. I get bored easily if I stay too long on the same topic. I don’t mind boring you … hahaha, but I don’t want to bore myself. I will also leave a post unfinished if my research on a subject person(s) returns the extreme of either too much information that would take me a long time to digest or too few to write something meaningful. There you have it, my excuses for not finishing each Post before I move on to a new one. September 11, 2010
There are many ways in which the past of Hong Kong can be studied. This is my mine. Enjoy! August 5, 2009
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Tuesday, September 1, 2009
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Rudi Butt
Hot Place to Break in
A burglar(s) broke in to the the residence of the first governor, Henry Pottinger, on April 26, 1843. A year later on July 16, the residence was again broken in to, but this time, the occupant was John Francis Davis, the second governor. Records did not show what were stolen; or whether it was the same people who committed these 2 burglaries a year apart, …
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