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{{For|the street in London|Lyndhurst Road}}
{{Short description|Street in Hong Kong}}
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'''Lyndhurst Terrace''' ({{zh|t=擺花街}}) is a street in the [[Central, Hong Kong|Central]] area of [[Hong Kong]]. It was built on a slope in southern Central district, linking [[Hollywood Road]] and [[Wellington Street, Hong Kong|Wellington Street]], at its intersection with [[Pottinger Street]]. In the middle it meets [[Gage Street]], [[Cochrane Street]] and the [[Central–Mid-Levels escalator]]s.

==Name==
The terrace was named after [[John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst|John Singleton Copley Lyndhurst]], an [[Assistant Magistrate]].<ref>[http://www.hk-place.com/view.php?id=330 Roads named after British Official] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071224163439/http://www.hk-place.com/view.php?id=330 |date=24 December 2007 }} {{in lang|zh}}</ref> The Cantonese name 擺花 (''baai2 faa1'') literally means "[[flower arrangement]]", possibly because of presence of numerous stalls in the area in the mid-19th century, selling flowers<ref>Film Service Office. Location Library: {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20120402090535/http://hkfso.com/accessibility/eng/locations_details.cfm?Photo_Num=01432 Lyndhurst Terrace]}}</ref> to the customers of the nearby brothels.<ref>{{cite book |title= Signs of a Colonial Era|last= Andrew Yanne|first= Gillis Heller|year= 2009|publisher= [[Hong Kong University Press]]|isbn= 978-962-209-944-9|page= 4}}</ref>

==History==
[[File:HK Central Lyndhurst Terrace Tai Cheong Bakery.JPG|thumb|Tai Cheong Bakery, Lyndhurst Terrace branch in 2007.]]
Lyndhurst Terrace and the surrounding area were the location of some of the [[Prostitution in Hong Kong|earliest brothels]] established in Hong Kong,<ref>{{cite book |title= Forgotten Souls: A Social History of the [[Hong Kong Cemetery]]|last= Lim|first= Patricia|year= 2011|publisher= [[Hong Kong University Press]]|isbn= 978-962-209-990-6|page= [https://archive.org/details/forgottensoulsso00limp/page/n134 122]}}</ref><ref>[http://sunzi1.lib.hku.hk/hkgro/view/g1884/672445.pdf Hong Kong Government Gazette 16 Feb 1884]</ref><ref>[http://sunzi1.lib.hku.hk/hkgro/view/g1884/672721.pdf Hong Kong Government Gazette 22 March 1884]</ref><ref>[http://sunzi1.lib.hku.hk/hkgro/view/g1884/672661.pdf Hong Kong Government Gazette 15 March 1884]</ref> in the mid-19th century. Western prostitutes concentrated there, while Chinese brothels were located in the [[Tai Ping Shan Street|Tai Ping Shan]] area near [[Po Hing Fong]]. They gradually moved to [[Possession Street]] and relocated to [[Shek Tong Tsui]] in 1903.<ref>[http://www.undo.net/it/mostra/16991 "Early Hong Kong Brothels"], Exhibition at the [[University Museum and Art Gallery, Hong Kong|University Museum and Art Gallery]], 26 November 2003 to 29 February 2004</ref> The name of the street appears in this context in [[James Joyce]]'s ''[[Finnegans Wake]]'', published in 1939.<ref>''[[Finnegans Wake]]'', [http://www.trentu.ca/faculty/jjoyce/fw-351.htm Etext, p. 351] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120613182930/http://www.trentu.ca/faculty/jjoyce/fw-351.htm |date=13 June 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title= Annotations to Finnegans Wake|last= McHugh|first= Roland |year= 2005|publisher= [[Johns Hopkins University Press]]|isbn= 978-0-8018-8381-1|page= 351}}</ref>

The original Site of Xing Yan Lou Western Restaurant (杏讌樓西菜館) was located at 2 Lyndhurst Terrace. The restaurant was a historical meeting place for Dr [[Sun Yat-sen]] when he was studying at the [[Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese]],<ref name="tourism">Home Affairs Department, [http://www.hca.gov.hk/en/doc/discovery_historyperson.pdf "Research on the culture and history of HK for the design of tourism routes"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110206023818/http://www.hca.gov.hk/en/doc/discovery_historyperson.pdf |date=6 February 2011 }}, Centre for Culture and Development, [[Chinese University of Hong Kong]], 14 January 2011</ref> from where he graduated in 1892, and a refuge for revolutionaries outside Hong Kong, who took part in the failed "1895 Guangzhou uprising" (廣州起義) against the [[Qing dynasty]] in [[Guangzhou]].<ref>Antiquities and Monuments Office: [http://www.amo.gov.hk/en/trails_central3.php?tid=27 Original Site of Xing Yan Lou Western Restaurant]</ref><ref>Brochure of the Dr Sun Yat-sen Historical Trail, [http://hk.drsunyatsen.museum/download/brochure_07_b.pdf "The Xing Yan Lou Western Restaurant – 2 Lyndhurst Terrace"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090306151938/http://hk.drsunyatsen.museum/download/brochure_07_b.pdf |date=6 March 2009 }}, p. 32, Central & Western District Council, 2007</ref> The site, located at the intersection with [[Pottinger Street]], is part of the [[Central and Western Heritage Trail]] and the [[Dr Sun Yat-sen Historical Trail]]. It is now occupied by a commercial building (8 Lyndhurst Terrace).<ref name="tourism"/>

The Tai Cheong Bakery (泰昌餅家) first opened at Lyndhurst Terrace in 1954.<ref name="flavours">MS, [https://web.archive.org/web/20121217034807/http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/tourists-fall-for-distinctly-hong-kong-flavours-1908687.html "Tourists fall for distinctly Hong Kong flavours"], ''[[The Independent]]'', 24 February 2010</ref> Their [[egg tart]]s gained fame when [[Chris Patten]], the last [[Governor of Hong Kong]], called them "the best Egg Tarts in the world".<ref>Hong Kong Tourism Board : [http://www.discoverhongkong.com/tramguide/eng/merchant_detail.jsp?spot_id=25 Tai Cheong Bakery] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110704063256/http://www.discoverhongkong.com/tramguide/eng/merchant_detail.jsp?spot_id=25 |date=4 July 2011 }}</ref> It later received intense media attention<ref>Angie Wong, [http://hk.asia-city.com/restaurants/article/chinese-cake-away "Chinese Cake-away"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120404141221/http://hk.asia-city.com/restaurants/article/chinese-cake-away |date=4 April 2012 }}, ''[[HK Magazine]]'', 16 November 2006</ref> when it closed in May 2005, citing increasing rent,<ref>Hiufu Wong, [http://www.cnngo.com/hong-kong/eat/behid-scene-most-loved-egg-tart-bakery-099165 "Behind the scenes of Hong Kong's most loved egg tart bakery"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929211515/http://www.cnngo.com/hong-kong/eat/behid-scene-most-loved-egg-tart-bakery-099165 |date=29 September 2011 }}, CNN, 2 August 2010</ref><ref>Frederik Balfour, Bruce Einhorn, Simon Cartledge, [https://web.archive.org/web/20050525023940/http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_22/b3935017.htm "Hong Kong: It's Back!"], Bloomberg Businessweek, 30 May 2005</ref> reaching HK$80,000 per month.<ref>Richard Spencer, [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/hongkong/1489862/Rent-rise-means-the-end-of-Fat-Pangs-tarts-shop.html "Rent rise means the end of Fat Pang's tarts shop"], ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', 12 May 2005</ref> It reopened at another location in the street in September 2005 and went on to open several new outlets across Hong Kong.<ref name="flavours"/>

==Intersections==
[[File:HK Central Lyndhurst Terrace traffic.jpg|thumb|Lyndhurst Terrace, looking toward [[Hollywood Road]] from the [[Central–Mid-Levels escalator]]s.]]
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==References==
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