The Blake Pier was a ferry

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in Central,

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. It was named after Sir

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, the twelfth

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History

First generation

The first generation of the pier was built in 1900 the end of Pedder Street for serving dignitaries and colonial governors. It had no cover originally. But, in 1909, an

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-style, structural steel

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was built on top, providing travellers with shelter. It was demolished in 1965, but the pavilion was preserved, dismantled and rebuilt in Morse Park in Wong Tai Sin, Kowloon as a park shelter. In 2006, the pavilion was again dismantled, restored to its original condition. The renovated structure was relocated to

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, where it stands next to Murray House, which was similarly relocated brick by brick.The Blake Pier
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Second generation

The second generation of the pier was built in 1960s. It was demolished in 1993 to cope with the Central Reclamation Phase 1 project.

Blake Pier at Stanley

The top structure of the First generation pier was transferred to the open-air oval theatre in Morse Park, in between Wong Tai Sin and Lok Fu,

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. In 2006, the structure was once again transferred to Blake Pier at Stanley, next to the Murray House in

, itself dismantled brick by brick and relocated from Central.Details of the history of the Blake Pier and its pavilion were given in Wong C.T., Ma K.Y., Leung M.K., and Liu K.M. (2007), "The Blake Pier Pavilion: Just a Memory?
Paper presented at the HKIE/IStructE Joint Structural Division Annual Seminar 2007
in Hong Kong, 16 May 2007, and a simplified version was published as Wong C.T., Leung M.K., Liu K.M., and Ma, K.Y. (2007), "The Blake Pier Pavilion: Just a Memory?" in ''The Structural Engineers''
Vol. 85(20)
pp. 38–43. The pier was recommissioned in Stanley on 31July 2007.

References

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History

First generation

Second generation

Blake Pier at Stanley

See also

References