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In 1890 a clock was installed in the top center of the main building to keep time at the military base. It was this very clock that gave
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and Wan Chai, since development on the site of the barracks was not permitted. This forced developers to construct commercial and residential complexes solely to the east of the barracks in
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Harcourt Garden. Starting in 1854, it began being marked as "Wellington Battery", named after
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Wellington and Victoria Barracks were demolished in the mid-1980s. The new
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was built on a fraction of the land previously occupied by
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