In 1923, Jardines sold East Point Hill to the Lee Hysan family. The hill was renamed The Lee Gardens, and Jardines moved the stone gate to Causeway Bay as its warehouse entrance. Under the Lee’s, the hill was developed into The Lee Gardens Playground, and the tai-pan mansion became a Chinese-style restaurant for touristic use. In the 1970s The Lee Gardens Hill was levelled, so forming what we see of the area today. When the Causeway Bay warehouse underwent reconstruction in 1972, Jardines sent the stone gate to Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club as a gift. Thereafter the gate was relocated to the main entrance of HKJC’s Beas River Country Club in Sheung Shui, renamed Yee Wo Gate. Now, standing decently in the thick of the verdant forest, it is the genuine “gate of honor” in Hong Kong.
If you are looking for an European palace-style kind of life, with all the fair-hair popsy and high tea and horse carriage and lofty gate so unrealistically put together in the commercials of today’s “pseudo luxury homes”, I earnestly recommend to you The Jardine Gardens as the first priority!
