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Southorn Stadium
Southorn Playground is a sports and recreational ground in Wan Chai, Hong Kong. It comprises a football pitch, four basketball courts, and a children's playground. Southorn Playground is bounded by Hennessy Road to the north, Luard Road to the west, Johnston Road to the south, and buildings to the east. It has been Wan Chai's main recreational area since the 1930s. It was named in 1934 after Sir Wilfrid Thomas Southorn, the Chief Secretary for Administration, Colonial Secretary from 1925 to 1936. Though the site is not big, it is often used for district functions such as fun fairs and sports matches. It is also popular among local residents as a place for daily relaxation and socialisation. History Early years The land on which the Southorn Playground sits was land reclamation in Hong Kong, reclaimed from Victoria Harbour as part of the Praya East Reclamation Scheme during the 1920s. In 1929, the government set up the Playing Fields Committee to study the provision of child ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hennessy Road
Hennessy Road () is a thoroughfare on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. It connects Yee Wo Street on the east in Causeway Bay, at the junction with East Point Road, Jardine's Bazaar and Great George Street, Hong Kong, Great George Street in East Point, Hong Kong, East Point, through Canal Road, Hong Kong, Bowrington, to Queensway (Hong Kong), Queensway on its western end in Wan Chai. It is a two-way road with two to three lanes of traffic on each side, which is shared by tram services. The road was built in the 20th century and is in length. The road is named after John Pope Hennessy, the Governor of Hong Kong between 1877 and 1882. The portion of the road passing through Causeway Bay was one of the locations occupied during the 2014 Hong Kong protests. The 2009 Hong Kong movie Crossing Hennessy is a love story set around Hennessy Road. The protagonists, Oi Lin (played by Tang Wei) and Loy (Jacky Cheung), live on opposite sides of Hennessy Road. Landmarks * Sogo Hong Kong � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blake Garden, Hong Kong
Blake Garden ( zh, t=卜公花園), also known as Blake Gardens, is a small urban park in Sheung Wan on Hong Kong Island, near Man Mo Temple. The park is named after Sir Henry Arthur Blake, a former British governor of Hong Kong. It includes hard-surface playing areas for football, basketball and badminton/volleyball. History In 1894, the bubonic plague broke out in Hong Kong, centred on Tai Ping Shan Street, which was densely populated with deplorable sanitary conditions. In response, the buildings in the area were bought and demolished by the Government. The worst affected area was redeveloped. Blake Gardens and the Old Pathological Institute (now Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences) were built here. The garden has a plaque commemorating the outbreak of the bubonic plague in 1894. See also *List of urban public parks and gardens in Hong Kong Urban public parks and gardens in Hong Kong include: Note: Most public parks and gardens in Hong Kong are managed by the Leisure an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tin Shui Wai
Tin Shui Wai New Town is a new towns in Hong Kong, satellite town in the northwestern New Territories of Hong Kong. Originally a ' () fish pond area, it was developed in 1980s in Hong Kong, the 1980s as the second New towns of Hong Kong, new town in Yuen Long District and the eighth in Hong Kong. It is due northwest of Central, Hong Kong, Central, the main business area in the territory, on land reclaimed from low-lying areas south of Deep Bay (Hong Kong), Deep Bay, next to Ping Shan. The population was 283,595 as of 2021. History The land on which Tin Shui Wai was built did not exist at the beginning of the 1900s, while the adjacent Ping Shan was by the sea. The water north of Ping Shan gradually turned to marshes and villagers converted them into pond, pools and paddy field, rice paddies. The pools became ''gei wai'' fish ponds where most of the residents were fishermen before the new town was developed. With the decline in aquaculture, most of the fish ponds were abando ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tung Chung
Tung Chung ( " eastern stream") is an area on the northwestern coast of Lantau Island, Hong Kong. One of the most recent new towns, it was formerly a rural fishing village beside Tung Chung Bay, and along the delta and lower courses of Tung Chung River and Ma Wan Chung in the north-western coast of Lantau Island. The area was once an important defence stronghold against pirates and foreign military during the Ming and the Qing dynasties. Developed as part of the Airport Core Programme, the North Lantau New Town is the first new town on an outlying island of Hong Kong, with the first phases built on reclaimed land to the north, east and northeast of the original Tung Chung Town. Administratively, Tung Chung is part of Islands District. History Early times Since the Song dynasty between 960 and 1279 AD, there have been people living in Tung Chung. At that time, they lived on fishing and agriculture. Crabs, fishes and crops were their main productions. This place was ori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Manson
Fred Manson is an urban renewal specialist from the United Kingdom. He is the former Director of Regeneration at the London borough of Southwark. Fred Manson was appointed Director of Development in 1990 and Director of Regeneration and Environment in 1994 in the UK. His areas of expertise include economic development, planning, property management, environmental management Environmental resource management or environmental management is the management of the interaction and impact of human societies on the environment. It is not, as the phrase might suggest, the management of the environment itself. Environment ..., regeneration and leisure and community services. He has done some of London's most significant projects, such as Tate Modern, the Millennium Bridge and Greater London Authority headquarters. References British urban planners Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Heatherwick
Thomas Alexander Heatherwick, (born 17 February 1970) is an English designer and the founder of London-based design practice Heatherwick Studio. He works with a team of more than 200 architects, designers and entrepreneurs from his studio in King's Cross, London. Heatherwick's projects, many of which have won design awards, include the UK pavilion at Expo 2010, the renovation of the Hong Kong Pacific Place, the Olympic cauldron for the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, '' Vessel'' in New York City, and the New Routemaster bus. The ''Garden Bridge'' over the Thames in Central London was cancelled. Life and career Heatherwick was born in London. His mother designed jewellery; his father was a musician, ran a charity and later worked for Heatherwick's design firm. His maternal great-grandfather was the owner of Jaeger, the London fashion firm, one of his grandmothers founded the textile studio at Marks & Spencer and was subsequently an art therapist, and his uncle was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Council
The British Council is a British organisation specialising in international cultural and educational opportunities. It works in over 100 countries: promoting a wider knowledge of the United Kingdom and the English language (and the Welsh language in Argentina); encouraging cultural, scientific, technological and educational cooperation with the United Kingdom. The organisation has been called a soft power extension of UK foreign policy, as well as a tool for propaganda. The British Council is governed by a Royal charter#United Kingdom, royal charter. It is also a Government-owned corporation, public corporation and an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. Its headquarters are in Stratford, London, Stratford, London. Its chair is Paul Thompson (administrator), Paul Thompson and its chief executive is Scott McDonald. History 1930s-40s In 1934, the British Foreign Office officials created the "British Committee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wan Chai District Council
The Wan Chai District Council is the district council for the Wan Chai District in Hong Kong. It is one of 18 such councils. The Wan Chai District Council currently consists of 10 members, of which the district is divided into one constituency, electing a total of 2 members, 4 district committee members, and 4 appointed members. The latest election was held on 10 December 2023. History The predecessor of Wan Chai District Council was established on 20 February 1982 under the name of the Wan Chai District Board as the result of the colonial Governor Murray MacLehose's District Administration Scheme reform. The District Board was partly elected with the ''ex-officio'' Urban Council members, as well as members appointed by the Governor until 1994 when last Governor Chris Patten refrained from appointing any members to the council. The Wan Chai District Board was replaced by the Wan Chai Provisional District Board after the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) was esta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Kong Playground Association
The Hong Kong Playground Association (HKPA) is a Hong Kong not for profit organisation. It was incorporated as a statutory corporation, under the Hong Kong Playground Association Ordinance. However, the association was classified as a subvented non-government organization. The Government of Hong Kong is one of the funding source of the association, but the association has its owns governing board. The association has a basketball team that participated in the Hong Kong A1 Division Championship. The association also provided many extra-curricular activities to the teens of Hong Kong. The association also known for its ownership of the Macpherson Stadium. The association partnered with the Urban Renewal Authority, made an open invitation to re-develop the site, which the real estate developer would owned part of the re-development, but also bored the redevelopment cost. The association also operates an indoor sports venue, Southorn Stadium Southorn Playground is a sports ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnaldo De Oliveira Sales
Arnaldo Augusto de Oliveira Sales (; 13 January 1920 – 6 March 2020) was a Hong Kong-Portuguese sports figure who was chairman of the Hong Kong Olympic Academy and president of the Sports Federation and Olympic Committee of Hong Kong. He was for many years an unofficial member of the Urban Council and became its first unofficial chairman from 1973-81. He was also a member of the Hong Kong Basic Law Consultative Committee. Biography Sales was born in Shameen, Canton in the French concession in about 1920, where his great-great-grandfather had settled. He came to Hong Kong at the age of 8 and attended several Roman Catholic schools, including St Joseph's Branch School, La Salle College and St Joseph's Seminary, Macau. After he returned to Hong Kong, he attended a business school to prepare for joining the family business. He evacuated to Macau with other third nationals during the Second World War. After he returned to Hong Kong, Sales married his childhood friend, Edith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Island Line (MTR)
The Island line () is one of ten lines of the MTR, the mass transit system in Hong Kong. It runs from Kennedy Town in the Western district to Chai Wan in the Eastern District on Hong Kong Island, passing through the territory's major business districts of Central, Wan Chai and Causeway Bay, and connecting them with built-up areas on the north shore of the island. The line first opened on 31 May 1985. As of 2022 it travels in 25 minutes along its route, serving 17 stations. It is indicated in on the MTR map. History The origins of the proposal for the line originated in the 1967 and 1970 studies, which originally planned to run from Kennedy Town to Chai Wan, but the route between Sheung Wan and Kennedy was omitted when the proposal was finalized during the construction. The Hong Kong Government authorised the construction of the Island line in December 1980, after rejecting plans to extend the tram eastwards to Chai Wan. On 31 May 1985 the Island line opene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Southorn is a surname, and may refer to: *Bella Sidney Southorn or Bella Sidney Woolf OBE (1877–1960), English author, sister of author Leonard Woolf and wife of Tom Southorn *Fiona Southorn (born 1967), New Zealand paralympic cyclist *Jordon Southorn (born 1990), Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman *Thomas Southorn (1879–1957), British colonial administrator, spending the large part of his career in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) *Willie Southorn, New Zealand rugby league player who represented his country See also *Southorn Playground Southorn Playground is a sports and recreational ground in Wan Chai, Hong Kong. It comprises a football pitch, four basketball courts, and a children's playground. Southorn Playground is bounded by Hennessy Road Hennessy Road () is a ... (Chinese: 修頓遊樂場, 修頓球場), a sports and recreational facility in the Wan Chai area of Hong Kong * Southorn (constituency), one of the 13 constituencies in the Wan Chai District * So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
