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Old City Hall (Hong Kong)

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The Hall housed the Theatre Royal, a 569 seats performance space which hosted a number of amateur and professional theatre performances for residents of the colony. The theatre was renovated in 1903 to improve the function and acoustics.
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of Hong Kong. It housed a theatre, a library, a museum and assembly rooms. Despite its name, its function differed from a
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in that it was used solely for community purposes and did not house any government offices.
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Structure in Hong Kong used solely for community purposes
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Dent's Fountain
Hong Kong
Hong Kong Government
Renaissance
Achille-Antoine Hermitte
Traditional Chinese
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization
Jyutping
crown colony
town hall
Queen's Road Central
Victoria, Hong Kong
HSBC Hong Kong headquarters building
Bank of China Building
Achille-Antoine Hermitte
Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh

Crown land
Achille-Antoine Hermitte
Renaissance style
Dent's Fountain
Dent & Co.
HRH Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh
the Hong Kong Bank
third generation headquarters
Bank of China Building
Dent's Fountain
Hong Kong City Hall

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