PMQ
Former police married quarters turned creative hub, housing over a hundred design studios and galleries.
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About this audio guide
This guide to PMQ in Hong Kong opens on a cornerstone laid in April eighteen eighty-four, with a fifteen-year-old boy in the watching crowd who had just enrolled at the school on this site: Sun Yat-sen. It follows that school as it became Queen's College, then burned after Japanese forces occupied it as cavalry headquarters during the war, and traces the married police quarters the government built here in nineteen fifty-one. Listen for who grew up in those corridors before the buildings sat empty for a decade and were reborn as design studios and galleries.
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