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The Kowloon British School was a school established in

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for the education of the children of expatriates at the turn of the 20th century.

History

The school was built at 136

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and is the oldest surviving school building constructed for the expatriate community in Hong Kong. In 1900, Mr. Ho Tung (later Sir Robert) donated $15,000 to the Government to set up a school in Kowloon.

Antiquities and Monuments Office The Antiquities and Monuments Office (AMO) was established in 1976 under the Antiquities and Monuments Ordinance to protect and preserve Hong Kong's historic monuments. Housed in the Former Kowloon British School, the AMO is responsible for iden ...

. Declared Monuments in Hong Kong - Kowloon
Former Kowloon British School
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on 19 April 1902. The school was officially opened as a primary school for some 60 pupils but it was converted to a secondary school for some 300 students in the mid-1930s. The school remained at this building until 1937 when it relocated to 2 Tin Kwong Road in

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. The school was closed in August 1940 after children were ordered out of Hong Kong as

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began to impact Hong Kong. The school reopened in the summer of 1946 and was renamed King George V School in 1948. The building is a typical Victorian structure but was modified to adapt to the local climat by adding wide

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s, high ceilings and pitched roofs. The Family Welfare Association and Tsim Sha Tsui Kaifong Association used the building after the

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.Sally Rodwell. 1991. A Visitor's guide to Historic Hong Kong. Having been restored, it now houses the

. It became a declared monument of Hong Kong on 19 July 1991.

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