Pottinger Street

This guide to Pottinger Street in Hong Kong traces the steep granite lane back to Henry Pottinger, the colony's first governor, and the invisible line it once drew between Chinese and European quarters. It follows the street through the Battle of Hong Kong in December 1941 and the air-raid tunnel dug beneath it. Listen for how the stone slabs, laid in the 1850s, still shape the way rain runs downhill on this steep climb off Hollywood Road.