Morrison Hill
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Morrison Hill (Chinese: 摩理臣山 or 摩利臣山) is an area – and the former location of the eponymous hill between Wan Chai and Bowrington – on Hong Kong Island. Morrison Hill was once a quarry, providing materials for Hong Kong's early reclamation projects.
History
Standing 200 feet (61 metres) high, the hill was located on the seashore; it was named for Protestant missionary and linguist Dr Robert Morrison, who travelled through the region as part of the Morrison Education Society.
In the 1920s, as part of the Praya East Reclamation Scheme, Morrison Hill was selected as a quarry to mine its constituent rock/earth for the project. The reclaimed materials were transported via wagons on temporary railway tracks which ran alongside Bowrington Canal.
The hill was progressively levelled over the decades before disappearing from the landscape completely in the 1960s; the only physical remnant of its existence is a single stone wall which was preserved, and forms part of the Hennessy Road Playground.
Features
Today, Oi Kwan Road (愛群道) (lit. "Caring for the Community Road") is built on the footprint of Morrison Hill. The one-way road runs clockwise in a continuous circle, and is intersected to the north by Tak Yan Street and Yat Sin Street; to the east by Sung Yin Lane and Sung Tak Street; and to the west by Wing Cheung Street. A short ladder street called Shiu Kin Lane connects Oi Kwan Road with Queen's Road East in the south, alongside an unnamed alleyway which runs between the Queen Elizabeth Stadium and Tang Shiu Kin Hospital. The central section of the road is home to the Morrison Hill Swimming Pool and two secondary schools.
There is also a major road named for the hill – Morrison Hill Road (摩理臣山道) – connecting Tin Lok Lane and Leighton Road, which runs to the east of Oi Kwan Road.
Facilities along Oi Kwan Road
Amenity facilities include:
Medical establishments include:
Educational institutions include:
- Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Morrison Hill) (with the headquarters of Vocation Training Council by its side),
- Lady Trench Training Centre
- Tang Shiu Kin Victoria Government Secondary School
- Sheng Kung Hui Tang Shiu Kin Secondary School
Other major facilities include:
- The Scout Association of Hong Kong Regional Headquarters
- Tang Shiu Kin Social Service Centre
- Ammar Mosque and Osman Ramju Sadick Islamic Centre
Residential building include:
See also
References
- ↑ Pao, Ming. "香港石礦業170年歷史 建築填海材料 曾經靠晒佢". www.mingpaocanada.com. Retrieved 2025-04-21.
- ↑ "唔好意思—移山填海170年-地圖-地動山移 (無障礙瀏覽版本)". www.hkmemory.org. Retrieved 2025-04-21.
- ↑ Garrett, Valery (2011). Elizabeth Sinn (ed.). Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography. Hong Kong University Press. p. 329.
- ↑ Carey, W. H. (1850). Oriental Christian Biography, Containing Biographical Sketches of Distinguished Christians Who Have Lived and Died in the East. Calcutta, Baptist Mission Press. p. 193.
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