Blackhead Point Signal Tower in Tsim Sha Tsui, Race Course Fire Memorial in So Kon Po and Sai Ying Pun's Old Mental Hospital facade have been declared monuments.
The declarations, under the Antiquities & Monuments Ordinance, were gazetted today.
The three-storey, 42-foot-high Signal Tower in Signal Hill Garden, Tsim Sha Tsui, was built in 1907 by the Hong Kong Observatory to house a timeball apparatus and was used for signalling accurate time to mariners and citizens.
Race Course Fire Memorial on the hillside above Hong Kong Stadium in So Kon Po is the only memorial dedicated to those who died in the 1918 fire at Happy Valley Racecourse.
Completed in 1892, Old Mental Hospital at 2 High Street, Sai Ying Pun, was originally constructed as the Government Civil Hospital's medical staff quarters and was converted into wards for mentally ill female patients in 1939. Its facade is one of the oldest surviving structures testifying the development of mental care services in Hong Kong.
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