Conduit Road
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Conduit Road (Chinese: 干德道, formerly 干讀道) is a road in the Mid-Levels on Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong. It is named after the aqueaduct underneath which carries water from the Pok Fu Lam Reservoir to the Central area. It is the highest point the Central-Mid-Levels escalator reaches. It is a residential area, interchanging with Glenealy at the east end, and with Kotewall Road, Po Shan Road, and Hatton Road at the west end. Number 41A seems to have had a wide history; not only did it feature as the original location of The Foreign Correspondents' Club (see [1]) but it was also the Hospital in the 1955 film Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing. In contrast, Number 2 has proven history and city-wide recognition: it is renowned for housing influential Hong Kong socialites.
Conduit Road was constructed in 1910. On 7 December 1911 a landslip on a building site killed four people. This occurred during excavation and heavy rain.
On 18 June 1972 an even more devastating landslide occurred. It started from a redevelopment site on Conduit Road above Po Shan Road and slid down 270 meters to Kotewall Road crossing Conduit Road near number 53. 67 people were killed, 20 were injured and 2 buildings totally destroyed. 40,000 cubic meters of earth and debris moved in this slip.
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