Clock Tower in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong, Declared monument clock tower in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong.
The Clock Tower in Tsim Sha Tsui is built of red brick and granite and rises 44 metres, topped by a 7-metre lightning rod. Its square shaft carries a round clock face with black Roman numerals on a white dial, and above it a colonnaded stone stage supports a tiered dome. It stands on the southern shore of Kowloon near Victoria Harbour.
The tower was built in 1915 as part of the original Kowloon-Canton Railway station and survived when the main station moved to Hung Hom in 1975. It remained the only visible remnant of the original complex.
The tower served as a landmark for ships arriving and departing from the harbor, and today people gather on the waterfront nearby. Its red brick outline stands out against the modern skyscrapers of the area.
The tower's interior is closed for maintenance, so the clock faces, brickwork and stone trim are seen from outside, on the southern shore of Tsim Sha Tsui near the western end of Salisbury Road. The Tsim Sha Tsui Ferry Pier and Victoria Harbour waterfront are a short walk away, and the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Space Museum and Museum of Art stand on the former station grounds.
The tower's bell, cast in 1919 by John Taylor & Co of Loughborough, spent years away from the site: it was displayed at Sha Tin station from the mid-1980s to 1995, then kept at the KCRC office in Fo Tan until the early 2000s, and only returned inside the tower in 2010. Since 9 December 2021 it rings hourly from 8am to midnight, driven by a digital system synchronised with the Hong Kong Observatory's web clock.
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