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- Chou Wong Yi Kung Study Hall
Chou Wong Yi Kung Study Hall was built in 1684 to honour Chou Yau Tak, Viceroy of Guangdong and Guangxi, and Wong Loi Yam, Governor of Guangdong, whose pleading with the Emperor ended the forced coastal evacuation and allowed the clan to return to Kam Tin. The study hall houses the soul tablets of the two officials and a number of stone tablets recording the history of the coastal evacuation and the study hall, making them valuable artefacts.
- Yau Ma Tei Theatre
Built in 1930, Yau Ma Tei Theatre is a blend of Chinese and Western architectural styles. The two pillars at the front entrance are engraved with crying and laughing masks. The theatre features a Chinese tiled roof, an Art Deco facade and gable walls. Yau Ma Tei Theatre is the oldest surviving theatre in the urban district, and has been revitalised as a performing arts centre for promoting Cantonese opera.
- Facade and gable walls of Yau Ma Tei Theatre
Yau Ma Tei Theatre with a Chinese tiled roof and Art Deco facade and gable walls.
- Yau Ma Tei Fruit Market
Yau Ma Tei Fruit Market, founded in 1913, was originally a wholesale market for vegetables and fish. From 1965 onwards, it has been used solely by fruit wholesalers. The rectangular market consists of several blocks of one to two storeys high brick-and-stone buildings. The gables and pediments of some of the buildings are in Dutch Colonial style, while some facades are engraved with shop names, which are the architectural highlights of the Fruit Market.
- Bird's-eye view of Yau Ma Tei Fruit Market
Bird's-eye view of Yau Ma Tei Fruit Market in 1995.
- Facades of Yau Ma Tei Fruit Market
Facades engraved with shop names, Yau Ma Tei Fruit Market.
- Yung Shue Tau
This is a square located in front of Tin Hau Temple in Yau Ma Tei. It is well known as Yung Shue Tau (Banyan Tree Stump) because of the big banyan trees there. In the old days, entertainers gathered in this market commonly known as Poor Man's Nightclub, offering fortune-telling, Cantonese opera singing and storytelling, which attracted large numbers of spectators.
- Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens (Bing Tau Fa Yuen)
The Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens were opened to the public in 1864, making it the oldest public garden in Hong Kong. It was first named the Botanical Garden because it was intended to be for research on plants in Hong Kong. Later animals were introduced, and in 1975 it was renamed the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens. The site of the Botanical Garden once served as temporary Government House, and subsequently, the official Government House was built on northern side of the garden. Since the Governor commanded the armed forces, he was called Bing Tau (chief commander) and the garden was called Bing Tau Fa Yuen (chief commander's garden).
- The Botanical Garden in the past
The Botanical Garden with the then Government House (Governor's residence) in the background, circa 1865 to 1870.
- Fountain in the Botanical Garden
Fountain in the Botanical Garden in 1869, with a cast-iron bandstand in the background. Martial music performance took place in the bandstand in the old days.