Leighton Road

History

Part of the road skirts Leighton Hill to its north while part of it runs along Lee Garden (a property of the Lee Hysan family), known as Jardine's Hill (owned by Jardine-Matheson) in early colonial days. The area adjacent to the road is relatively quiet compared to the business centre of East Point of Causeway Bay.

There was a Zoroastrian Church on Leighton Road between 1931 and 1991, which was later demolished and rebuilt as the Zoroastrian Building (善樂施大廈) in 1993, with the church on the fifth floor.

Features

A branch road, Wong Nai Chung Road leads to the Happy Valley Racecourse and the upscale residential area of Happy Valley.

• No. 8. Crowne Plaza Hong Kong Causeway Bay Hotel, an InterContinental Hotels Group-franchised hotel, has been located there since 2009.
• No. 66. Po Leung Kuk headquarters
• No. 77. Leighton Centre (), owned by Hysan Development Company, is a grade A office building.
• No. 101. Zoroastrian Building (). A first building was erected in the 1930s. The current building was built in 1993.
• No. 111. Lee Garden Six
• No. 133. Lanson Place Hotel ()
• No. 140. St. Paul's Convent School
• Craigengower Cricket Club

Gallery

|File:Leighton Road near Irving Street.jpg|End of Leighton Road (August 2011) |File:HK CWB 銅鑼灣 Causeway Bay LEE GARDEN Two 禮頓道 Leighton Road Yun Ping Road 中國太平大廈 China Taiping Tower April 2017 IX1.jpg|2 Leighton Road (April 2017) |File:Crowne Plaza Hong Kong Causeway Bay (full view).jpg|8 Leighton Road (July 2016) |File:HK LeightonCentre.JPG|77 Leighton Road (November 2007) |File:Lee Theatre Plaza 201312.jpg|Junction with Sharp and Percival Streets; Leighton Centre, Lee Theatre Plaza, Apple Apartment (left to right) (December 2013) |File:Lanson Place Hotel (blue sky).jpg|133 Leighton Road (October 2016) |}}

References

References

1. "香港記憶 {{!}} Hong Kong Memory".
2. (2022-07-23). "銅鑼灣的善樂施大廈 記在香港落地生根的巴斯… - 鄒頌華".
3. "Photos of Zoroastrian Building (previous generation) [1931-1991] {{!}} Gwulo".
4. (23 April 2017). "Redevelopment plan for five-star Hong Kong hotel divides opinion". South China Morning Post.
5. [http://www.hysan95.com/interview/zoroastrianism-in-hong-kong/ Zoroastrian Prayer Hall in Causeway Bay]