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{{short description|Street in Wan Chai, Hong Kong}}
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| name                    = Lockhart Road
| native_name             ={{native name|yue|駱克道}}

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| caption                 = Near the eastern end of Lockhart Road in [[Causeway Bay]]
| namesake                = [[James Stewart Lockhart|Sir James Stewart Lockhart]]

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[[File:Lockhart Road towards Luard Road.jpg|thumb|Western part of Lockhart Road viewed from O'Brien Road Footbridge.]]
'''Lockhart Road''' ({{zh|t=駱克道}}) is a street spanning the whole length of [[Wan Chai]] from east to west on the [[Hong Kong Island]] of Hong Kong. It begins at Arsenal Street in the west and ends in [[East Point Road]] in [[East Point, Hong Kong|East Point]].

==History==
The road is named after [[James Stewart Lockhart|Sir James Stewart Lockhart]], [[Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong]] from 1895 to 1902, who signed the [[Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Andrew Yanne|author2=Gillis Heller|title=Signs of a Colonial Era|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DpOQrEVBcX4C&pg=PA83|access-date=25 June 2021|date=1 May 2009|publisher=Hong Kong University Press|isbn=978-962-209-944-9|pages=83–}}</ref>

On 17 December 2005, during the [[World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 2005|WTO Conference]], protestors from [[South Korea]] broke the police defensive line on Lockhart Road and attempted to break into the [[Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre]] in [[Wan Chai North]]. This action developed into a major clash with the [[Hong Kong Police Force]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=十四人涉灣仔騷亂提堂 |url=https://www.news.gov.hk/isd/ebulletin/tc/category/lawandorder/051219/html/051219tc08005.htm |access-date=2025-04-18 |website=www.news.gov.hk}}</ref><ref>Legislation Council (2006) Security Arrangements for the Sixth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation held in Hong Kong from 13 to 18 December 2005. Available at: https://www.legco.gov.hk/yr05-06/english/panels/se/papers/se0704cb2-2362-1-e.pdf</ref>

==Bar district==
Part of Lockhart Road near its western end is the backbone of one of Hong Kong Island's two main bar districts, the other being the slightly more upmarket [[Lan Kwai Fong]] and [[SoHo, Hong Kong|SoHo]] area. Once considered primarily a [[red light district]], the area is now much more mixed, with bars, pubs, restaurants and [[disco]]s. A number of the raunchier bars still remain, their doorways festooned with lightly clothed girls from [[Thailand]] and the [[Philippines]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=街知巷聞﹕夜色轉變 灣仔寂寞不變 |url=https://www.e123.hk/zh-hant/news/359293 |access-date=2025-01-21 |website=e123長青網-長者服務及老人院資訊 |language=zh-hant}}</ref> This is the area in which the novel and film ''[[The World of Suzie Wong]]'' were set.<ref>[http://gwulo.com/the-world-of-suzie-wong-hong-kong-locations Gwulo: The World of Suzie Wong]</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|Hong Kong}}
* [[Bottoms Up Club]]
* [[List of streets and roads in Hong Kong]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
* {{cite thesis |last=Cummer |first=Katherine Noelle |date=2010 |title=Cultural mapping western Lockhart Road for insight into Hong Kong's drinking culture |url=http://hdl.handle.net/10722/146108 |degree=Master of Science in Conservation |chapter= |publisher=[[The University of Hong Kong]] |docket= |oclc= |access-date=}} 

==External links==
* {{commons category-inline|Lockhart Road}}
{{Wan Chai District}}
{{HKislandroads}}


[[Category:Causeway Bay]]
[[Category:Red-light districts in Hong Kong]]
[[Category:Wan Chai]]
[[Category:Roads on Hong Kong Island]]