Stanley in Panorama 赤柱全面睇

Stanley has a famous waterfront on the south shore of the Hong Kong island. Tourists love to visit the Stanley Market but I prefer to visit the historical Murray House and the Blake Pier.

Murray House is a restored three-stores colonial building built in 1844 that was dismantled in 1982 and transplanted from its original site on Fa Yuen Road in Central to be rebuilt on the Stanley waterfront.

Blake Pier, originally known as Pedder Wharf situated at the then waterfront facing today's Des Voeux Road Central, was named in 1900 after Sir Henry Blake, the 12th Governor of Hong Kong. In 1904, upon the completion of the reclamation in central district, Blake Pier was relocated to the new waterfront at the junction of Connaught Road and Pedder Street. In 1965, when Blake Pier was demolished and re-built in situ, its cast iron roof truss was transferred to the Morse Park in Kowloon to provide for the cover of a pavilion. In 1993, the re-built Blake Pier was demolished to make way for reclamation works in Central District. The cast iron roof of Blake Pier was then further transferred to Stanley in 2007, where it was reinstated as the roof cover of a new pier - the Blake Pier at Stanley - built outside Murray House under the Government's Stanley Waterfront Improvement Project.

Images of this album were captured with the Panorama mode of iPhone 5.

Courtesy: Hong Kong Museum of History

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赤柱是香港島南面的一個著名的海灣。外國遊客喜歡到赤柱街市購物。我到赤柱，卻喜歡參觀具歷史意義的美利樓和赤柱卜公碼頭。

美利樓建於1844年，主要 用作駐港英軍的軍營。整座大樓揉合了東西方的建築特色，仿希臘復古式的圓形石柱、中式瓦面的房頂，甚具古典美。原來的美利樓座落在中環的花園道。1982年拆卸時，香港政府將美利樓3,000多件花崗岩都編上了號碼，然後在1998年於赤柱重新「堆砌」起來。

卜公碼頭，前身為畢打碼頭，原位於現今德輔道中的舊海旁。至1900年，時值亨利.卜力爵士為香港第十二任港督，固易名為卜公碼頭。1904年，中環填海工程完成，卜公碼頭遷往干諾道中與畢打街交界的新海旁。1965年，政府拆卸並在原位置建了一座新的卜公碼頭，將舊碼頭原有的鐵鑄桁架移往九龍摩士公園，用作公園涼亭的上蓋。2007年，政府進行赤柱海濱改善工程，把卜公碼頭富有歷史價值的鐵鑄桁架，重置在赤柱美利 樓旁的新建碼頭，並命名為赤柱卜公碼頭。

這輯照片是以iPhone 5 的「全景」模式拍攝。

鳴謝: 香港歷史博物館

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Blake Pier and the Murray House
赤柱卜公碼頭與美利樓

A series of the stone pillars of the old pawn shops were relocated to the Murray House
一列舊當鋪的建築樓柱被移放到美利樓旁

The entrance of the Blake Pier at Stanley
赤柱卜公碼頭的入口

Blake Pier was visible far besides this old temple
赤柱北帝古廟遠處可見卜公碼頭

The front view of the Murray House
美利樓正面

The park besides the Murray House
美利樓旁邊的休憩廣場

The Stanley shopping plaza is on the right
赤柱購物中心在右方

Night view of the Blake Pier and Murray House
卜公碼頭及美利樓夜景

Food facilities along the Stanley waterfront
赤柱海濱旁食肆的夜景

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