no. 115, caine road

The building had the classical treatment of its period, including an arched door and windows with keystones. A first storey with Doric columns and a lighter third storey repeat the arches and keystones of the ground floor. There was a basement which received its light from open wells protected at street level by iron railings. Such an elegant building would originally have been intended for occupation by a single, well-to-do Chinese family with two or three servants.
上述文字摘自 Veronica Pearson 和 Ko Tim-keung 所編 A Sense of Place: Hong Kong West of Pottinger Street 一書。
中學時代每天來回堅道四次，到今天仍緬懷昔日堅道的物事人和店舖氛圍。
我對相片中的建築仍有印象，路經時總會望望人家地牢天井私活，日常中見生趣。