Audio guide introduction: 1 minute 23 seconds
Hong Kong has preserved many historical buildings, and many are still in use. For example, the Sham Shui Po Police Station on Yen Chow Street has been classified as a Grade II historic building, only smaller than the oldest existing police station in Kowloon, the Yau Ma Tei Police Station. , completed two years later. This three-story building is built in neoclassical style and has a columned porch, full of British colonial style. Construction of the Sham Shui Po Police Station started in 1924 and took only one year to complete. It has since been expanded and is in service today. Its typical Western neoclassical architecture is composed of five buildings. It was designed by the famous architectural firm P&T and mixed traditional Chinese style with the Western trends of the time. Its features include ziggurat roofs, columns and vaults. stone gate. Although it is not allowed to visit casually, if you look up at the chimney on the roof, you can estimate that there is an English fireplace in the police station, but I believe it is no longer in use. Over the years, the Sham Shui Po Police Station has gone through many hardships. During the Hong Kong Defense War, the Sham Shui Po Police Station was used as a military barracks by the British troops stationed in Hong Kong. During the Japanese colonial period in Hong Kong, it was converted by the Japanese Imperial Army into the headquarters of the Sham Shui Po Concentration Camp.