Wan Chai Road ( 灣仔道 ) is a main road in Wan Chai , on the north side of Hong Kong Island .
6-525: Wan Chai Road is a L-shape road which was constructed in 1851 along Morrison Hill from the foot of Hospital Hill (now near the old Wan Chai Market building) to the beach at Observation Point (now near Tin Lok Lane ). The road offers access, via Cross Lane, to Wan Chai Park (灣仔公園), the area's largest. In the 1930 and 1940s, Hong Kong funeral services used to gather in Wan Chai Road and Tin Lok Lane as
12-452: Is also a skatepark near the children's playground to the south-east. Amenity facilities include: Medical establishments include: Educational institutions include: Other major facilities include: Residential building includes: This Hong Kong Island location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to a mountain or hill in Hong Kong
18-623: The Morrison Education Society. Today, the centre of the area is occupied by the Morrison Hill Swimming Pool and several secondary schools, within a circular street, Oi Kwan Road ( 愛群道 [ yue ] ). A main road, Morrison Hill Road ( 摩理臣山道 [ yue ] ), runs along the east side of the area. The Queen Elizabeth Stadium and the Tang Shiu Kin Hospital are on its southern fringe. There
24-525: The area is closed to the cemeteries in Happy Valley . The first funeral parlour in Hong Kong, named Hong Kong Funeral Home , was founded on 216 Wan Chai Road in the early 1930s, opposite a cemetery carving workshop. The coffin showroom was on Tin Lok Lane. On 5 September 1966, Hong Kong Funeral Home moved to Quarry Bay , however, the old parlour of Wan Chai Road still in service until its dismantling in 1967. This road and its junction with Johnston Road
30-402: The harbour, extending the shoreline away from the area. This major operation took most of the decade and to carry away the rock and soil, temporary railway tracks were laid, running along Bowrington Canal (present day Canal Road ), which was covered over for the purpose. The hill was named for Protestant missionary and linguist Dr Robert Morrison who travelled through the region as part of
36-543: Was a Pit Stop in the eleventh leg of the reality TV show The Amazing Race 30 . Morrison Hill Morrison Hill ( Chinese : 摩理臣山 or 摩利臣山 ) is an area and the location of a hill between Wan Chai and Bowrington , on Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong . The hill was at the seashore until the Praya East Reclamation Scheme in the 1920s, which used its constituent rock/earth to reclaim land from
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