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Finding a partly forgotten urban gem Decoding some enigmas of the Jubilee Battery


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The Jubilee Battery was one of the battlefields in the defence of Hong Kong in December 1941. During the occupation, the Japanese used a magazine as a cell for POWs. After the war, the site was used as a camp for KMT soldiers, then squatters, cottage industries, and by the Special Branch of the Hong Kong Police.
A research team led by Professor Lawrence Lai at the Department of Real Estate and Construction of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) considers the site of high conservation value and should be graded and comprehensively conserved as a heritage site. Jubilee Battery has three well preserved gun emplacements.​ and is far bigger than Chung Hom Kok Battery (which only has a single gun emplacement left). Further conservation planning can also take advantage of the fact that part of the battery has already been protected as part of the Chicago University campus, which can be used as an anchor for such planning. ....

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