Possession Street

Hong Kong


Just before Hollywood Rd meets Queen’s Rd West is Possession St, where Commodore Gordon Bremmer and a contingent of British marines planted the Union Jack flag on 26 January 1841 and claimed Hong Kong Island for the Crown (a plaque marks this birthplace of colonial Hong Kong).


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