Fake Skylines

By fakeyskies

Blake Pier at Stanley

Feel very ill today, I leave school after the first lesson (I have 3 lessons every wednesday in this semester! :[) Then "sleep like a pig" on the cross-tunnel bus, which the destination is Stanley! Nevermind, let's go for a walk.

Blake Pier at Stanley, was named after Sir Henry Arthur Blake, the twelfth governor of Hong Kong. It was originally located at the site of the Central Reclamation Phase 1 project.

The first generation of the pier was built in 1900 the end of Pedder Street for serving dignitaries and colonial governors. It had no cover originally. But, in 1909, an Edwardian-style, structural steel pavilion was built on top, providing travellers with shelter. It was demolished in 1965, but the pavilion was preserved, dismantled and rebuilt in Morse Park in Wong Tai Sin, Kowloon as a park shelter. In 2006, the pavilion was again dismantled, relocated and restored to its original condition, and standing the pier next to Murray House, Stanley, Hong Kong.

From wiki. I never know it was an "Edwardian-style". Haha. Maybe I think everything is "Victoria-style" (Sorry, I am lack of common sense about western/english history!)

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