{"id":1443,"date":"2019-03-14T15:11:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T23:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=1443"},"modified":"2022-08-08T20:56:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T04:56:19","slug":"tai-kwun-center-for-heritage-and-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/tai-kwun-center-for-heritage-and-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Tai Kwun Center for Heritage and Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

That’s the official name. It consists of three colonial buildings: Central Police Station, Central Magistracy and the Victoria Prison as well as a modern add on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Central Police HQ entrance from parade grounds
Upstairs is The Dispensary, the former mess and now a fancy bar. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Victoria Prison once held Ho Chi Minh as a guest.

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Rules of the Magistracy. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Leftover sign from when this was a functioning government building.

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The police station has a armory where an exhibit on weapons and gear are on view.

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Crest of the Royal Hong Kong Police

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Good advice for law enforcement. Some of them don’t use their brains (SJPD, UCPD).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Tai Kwun <\/a>
10 Hollywood Road, Central, Hong Kong <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take the Travelator and there’s a set of wide new stairs about halfway up. That’s the easy way in.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That’s the official name. It consists of three colonial buildings: Central Police Station, Central Magistracy and the Victoria Prison as well as a modern add on. Tai Kwun 10 Hollywood Road, Central, Hong Kong Take the Travelator and there’s a set of wide new stairs about halfway up. That’s the easy way in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc-hk-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-nh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1448,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions\/1448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}