Mount Parish
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Hanyu Pinyin | Bālǐshì Shān |
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Mount Parish is a hill in Wan Chai, Hong Kong, to the south of Queen's Road East, between Kennedy Road and Stubbs Road.
History
In 1873 the
With the start of the
After the war, the
Wahyanite campus
The campus of Wah Yan College, Hong Kong still stands at the top of the mount and covers an area of 20,000 square metres (220,000 sq ft). It was completed and officially opened on 27 September 1955 by the then Governor Sir Alexander Grantham, replacing the old campus at Robinson Road. It was designed by Professor Gordon Brown of the University of Hong Kong, containing classrooms, laboratories, a hall and a chapel.
An extension to the campus was completed in 1987 and named Gordon Wu Hall, after Sir Gordon Wu, a businessman who was an alumnus of the school. In 1992 a landslide at Mount Parish caused the death of a driver, who was buried alive in his car at Kennedy Road. The landslide prompted the rebuilding of six classrooms, to be reopened in 1998. In 2003 the music room was rebuilt into a six-storey complex. A plan to rebuild the hall was proposed in 2011. Construction work is undergoing. The old hall will be replaced with a six-storey complex, doubling its original size in terms of land mass.[5][6]
Air raid precaution tunnels
There is a network of
In the evening of 24 December 1941,
In the 1960s and 70s, a total of 55 cubic metres of radioactive waste was disposed of inside the ARP tunnels. The waste in the tunnels caused some safety concerns. In 1991, a Government report recommended the transfer of the waste to a special dedicated handling facility. On 19 January 2001 a man was found within the tunnels. He was examined at the scene by health physicists, and no radioactivity was found on his body and clothing. After that the Government built a new radioactive waste storage facility on Siu A Chau, and the waste that used to be in the tunnel was transferred to the new facility in 2005. The new facility was opened officially on 24 June 2006.[10][11] [12]
References
- ^ Hong Kong Guide Maps (1981), p.45, published by Universal Publications
- ^ Peter Davis. "The Royal Naval Hospital, Hong Kong". Retrieved 2 February 2008.
- ^ a b "Mount Parish history". Batgung. 1 June 2006. Archived from the original on 8 January 2009. Retrieved 2 February 2008.
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- ^ Wah Yan College, Hong Kong (2004). WYCHK 85th Anniversary, WYK 80th Anniversary, 9th WYIC.
- ^ "History of Wah Yan – Timeline". Wah Yan College, Hong Kong. Archived from the original on 18 December 2007. Retrieved 2 February 2008.
- ^ a b "Tunnels under Mount Parish". Batgung. Archived from the original on 27 October 2007. Retrieved 2 February 2008.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "Air raid precaution tunnels during the War". Hong Kong Place. Retrieved 2 February 2008.
- ^ C. M. Maltby (27 January 1948). "Operations in Hong Kong from 8th to 25th December, 1941" (PDF). The War Office, United Kingdom. Retrieved 2 February 2008.
- ^ "LCQ9:Storage of radioactive waste". Retrieved 2 February 2008.
- ^ "Environmental Protection – Refuse Disposal: 70DR – Low-level radioactive waste storage facility" (PDF). Legislative Council, Hong Kong. June 2003. Retrieved 2 February 2008.
- ^ "Low-level Radioactive Waste Storage Facility opens". Environmental Protection Department. Retrieved 2 February 2008.