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Kellett Island off the coast of Causeway Bay has been connected to the Hong Kong Island by a breakwater as a result of the land reclamation. Causeway Bay's history as a shopping district dates back to 1960, when Daimaru, a Japanese style department store opened in Great George Street. By the 1970s, Causeway Bay has developed into Hong Kong's ...
Lee Theatre reconstructed in Hong Kong History Museum. Lee Theatre Plaza, built on the site of the Lee Theatre. Lee Theatre (Chinese: 利舞臺; Jyutping: lei6 mou5 toi4; pinyin: Lì wǔtái) was a prominent theatre in Causeway Bay on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong.
Po Leung Kuk, Main Building. The Po Leung Kuk Museum (Chinese: 保良局歷史博物館), or Po Leung Kuk Archives is a museum and an archive housed in the Main Building of Po Leung Kuk's Headquarters, located at 66 Leighton Road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong.
Panoramic view of Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter in August 2008. Much of the shelter was temporarily reclaimed as a working area for construction of the Central–Wan Chai Bypass (the working for Route 4 Reengineering), an underground road, underworks that were part of the Wan Chai Phase II project of the Central and Wan Chai Reclamation, begun ...
Previously, the park's location served as a typhoon shelter, known as Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter, used by small fishing boats and yachts during typhoon seasons. In the 1950s, the former bay was filled in, the shoreline was pushed north, and the government decided to create a public park on the newly reclaimed land. A new typhoon shelter was ...
A causeway completed in 1952 was built to give access to the island by means other than water. Following reclamation work in the 1960s and the completion of the Cross-Harbour Tunnel in 1972, Kellett Island was connected to Causeway Bay and its original outline disappeared, although the name remained. [7] Kellett Island and Causeway Bay in 1957.
Lee Gardens (Chinese: 利園) was a theme park, then present day a collection of shopping malls and property development in East Point west of Causeway Bay on the Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong, approximately the area between Percival Street, Hennessy Road and Leighton Road. It was built on a hill called East Point Hill also known as Jardine's Hill.
Circular bridge in the feature of Yee Wo Street Causeway Bay Terminus at the east end of Yee Wo Street Yee Wo Street during the 2014 Hong Kong protests. Yee Wo Street (Chinese: 怡和街; Cantonese Yale: yi4 wo2 gaai1) is a street, actually a thoroughfare nowaday, on Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong, situated in the area of East Point in the early colonial history and the area of Causeway Bay ...