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In the 19th century, Chinese and European residents used to live separately in different neighbourhoods. The street once acts as a rough boundary between the two groups. The Chinese used to mainly live west of the street and westerners to the east. An Air-Raid Precaution Tunnel was built beneath the
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and was destroyed in a fire in 1859. It was rebuilt, but subsequently a different site was selected and the current
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The first Roman Catholic cathedral of Hong Kong was built in 1843 at the junction of Pottinger Street and
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street in 1940-41 but was abandoned after the Second World War and was filled back in the 1980s.
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projects, and extended the street north from Queen's Road Central to
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and ends at the western end of Hollywood Road, just after it meets
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Forgotten Campaign: The Dutch East Indies Campaign 1941–1942
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Not the slightest chance: the defence of Hong Kong, 1941
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Henry Pottinger
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