Fenwick Street () is a street in

Wan Chai Wan Chai is situated at the western part of the Wan Chai District on the northern shore of Hong Kong Island, in Hong Kong. Its other boundaries are Canal Road, Hong Kong, Canal Road to the east, Arsenal Street to the west and Bowen Road to th ...

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

with a length of about 450 metres. It starts from

Johnston Road Johnston Road () is a major road in Wan Chai on the Hong Kong Island of Hong Kong. Location Johnston Road spans from the junction with Heard Street, Hennessy Road and Stewart Road on its east, towards another junction with Hennessy Road and ...

and ends at the junction of

Fenwick Pier Street Fenwick may refer to: Places Canada *Fenwick, Nova Scotia, a community * Fenwick, Ontario, a village United Kingdom * Fenwick, East Ayrshire, a village * Fenwick, Kyloe, Northumberland * Fenwick, Matfen, the location of Fenwick Tower, Northu ...

and Harbour Road. Fenwick Street is cut into two pieces by Gloucester Road, impassable for cars. Pedestrians can take an elevated walkway to cross.

Name

The name originates from George Fenwick (died 1896), who owned a shipyard at Johnston Road near Ship Street. The shipyard had to close when the tram was built in 1904.

History

The first part of Fenwick Street was built during the 1920s Wanchai Reclamation ( Praya East Reclamation Scheme), starting at Johnston Road (this was the waterfront before reclamation) to Gloucester Road (waterfront after reclamation). During the next reclamation phase between 1965 and 1972, the street was extended to Harbour Road. At the end of Fenwick Street piers existed, one from 1929Public Works Department Report for 1929, http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkgro/view/a1929/714.pdf to about 1968 at Gloucester Road, the other one from about 1970 to end of 2014 at the new waterfront (see Fenwick Pier).

References

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