Grade 1 historic building ------- Blue House

Hi every one, it is the time for us to show you some heritage to you again!!!!!!!!!!

Would you like to experience the living environment in the past?

If you say yes, I will show you the Grade 1 Historic building --------- Blue House.

May be you are very curious about why it is called Blue House or why the color of this house is blue?

Let me tell you about that. In 1970, Land Development

had to renovate the external wall. However, there are only the blue

paint during the period of  renovation so the colour of the house was blue. Also, it called Blue House

because the blue color painted on the wall .

Blue house, it is the 4-storey balcony located at

72-74A.

Stone Nullah Lane

Wan  Chai

It is one of the few remaining examples of Tong Lau with balcony type in Hong Kong.

The original site of the Blue House was “Hua Tuo Temple and Hospital “(華陀廟, 華陀醫院)which operated from 1867-1903. After that the temple site was changed to the present tenement in 1920. Before the 2^nd World War, the Ground floor no.72 was used as “Kand Ham Free School “ (鏡涵義學)( now “Lam Chun Hin Osteopathy Clinic”林鎮顯鐵打醫館) .

There are the “Wan Chai Livehood Museum “ is located on Ground floor  and operated  by a community group.

Wan Chai Livehood Museum

In the Wan Chai Livehood Museum, it displays lots of the things

that Hong Kong people use it in the past and those things are

donated by people. Since there are lots of things I can’t mention on the blog, I just mention some special things to you. If you are interested, you can go to Blue House and take a look.

The following are the things that people use it in the past:
Lottery 彩票

Toaster 多士爐  



Kerosene( For cooking the food )火水爐

The bottle for keeping warm the liquid 保暖壺

 

 

How to get there ???

Wan Chai MTR Station Exit A3

Source:

http://www.hkdatabase.com/content/view/153/5/

http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/Museum/Monument/yfoh/b5/bluehouse.php

http://cds.sev227.001at.com/WLM/index.html

http://www.wcheritage.org.hk/

BY IRINA