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Belcher's Street

Coordinates: 22°17′04″N 114°07′46″E / 22.2844°N 114.1294°E / 22.2844; 114.1294
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Belcher's Street
Chinese卑路乍街
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinBēi lù zhà jiē
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationBēi louh ja gāai
JyutpingBei1 lou6 za3 gaai1
Sidney LauBei1Lou6Ja3Gaai1
The Westwood mall at the base of The Belcher's, seen from Belcher's Street.
Belcher's Street, Hong Kong.

Belcher's Street is a main street in Kennedy Town of Hong Kong. It connects east Victoria Road and joins west Queen's Road West. A small section in its west end built a turn around for Hong Kong Tramways.

The street was named after Edward Belcher, a Canadian-born Royal Navy officer who surveyed the harbour of Hong Kong in 1841.

Ex-Western Fire Station, at No. 12 Belcher's Street.

The former Western Fire Station, located at No. 12 Belcher's Street, was converted into the Po Leung Kuk Chan Au Big Yan Home for the Elderly. It is a Grade III historic building[1] and is located along the Central and Western Heritage Trail.[2]

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References

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  1. ^ List of Graded Historic Buildings in Hong Kong (as at 7 Nov 2008) Archived 2011-07-09 at the Wayback Machine, by the Antiquities and Monuments Office
  2. ^ "Central and Western Heritage Trail - Ex-Western Fire Station". Archived from the original on 12 October 2012. Retrieved 11 August 2009.
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22°17′04″N 114°07′46″E / 22.2844°N 114.1294°E / 22.2844; 114.1294