Former Marine Police Headquarters
Compound
Tsim Sha Tsui Hill, Tsim Sha
Tsui
This superb group of buildings, with its commanding position overlooking
the harbour, was gazetted as a historical monument in 1994 and has
been designated as one of the four oldest surviving government buildings.
The Marine Police have been on the site since the construction of
the compound in 1884, except during the Japanese occupation of 1941-45.
The compound comprises a main building, a stable block and the special
feature of a two-storey time-signal tower, where a time ball was
dropped at 1pm every day until 1907 to enable ships in the harbour
to check their chronometers. (Not open to the public.) |
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