Located at Minden Row in Tsim Sha Tsui, the Signal Hill was opened up in 1981 as the Signal Hill Garden. Inside the garden is the Signal Tower, which was built by the Hong Kong Observatory in 1907 to house a time-ball apparatus previously located in the nearby Round House of the Former Marine Police Headquarters. The time-ball signalled accurate time daily to the mariners and the public until it ceased service in 1933.
The 4-storey Signal Tower was built to a heavy Classical Baroque design incorporating popular Edwardian decorative features of the time, which combined red brickwork with contrasting lighter colour stone architectural features. It is also a square-shaped building with elegant chamfered corners, as compared to the usual square corners. The brickwork is in "English Bond" of specially made red bricks, while the stonework is of carved local granite.
The Signal Tower was declared a monument in 2015.
Transport
To plan your journey to Signal Hill Garden, visit the "HKeMobility" website (https://www.hkemobility.gov.hk) or mobile application developed by the Transport Department, and insert your starting point to search for routes of different transportation mode. Alternatively, you may click the “Journey” button in the Google Map below.
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