Talk:Smithfield, Hong Kong

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It is likely that Smithfield began as an area of its own and was later merged into the greater area of Kennedy Town and extended in the north-south direction. Such can be traced from the allocation of the street numbers of the land along the street, some of which with "12" "12K", "12N", "12R" etc, occupy the middle section of Smithfield between Rock Hill Street and Pokfield Road. Many street numbers to the north and south of this section are larger than the number "12". Some street numbers north of Belcher's Street in Smithfield were only re-assigned with numbers smaller than 12 when old buildings were demolished and new buildings were erected. The Kennedy Town Fire Station (堅尼地城消防局) used to have the address of "51 Smithfield",[Information provided by the author as a local resident of Smithfield] but the address has since been changed to "6 Kennedy Town New Praya" with the same station remaining at the original location.

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• Original research
• Conclusion based on assumptions
• The assumption might be incorrect: the numbering issue might for example stem from the fact that the northern section (north of Belcher's Street) was built on reclaimed land after the street numbers were assigned.

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• When was the street created, named, numbered?
• Was the northern section built on reclaimed land? When? olivier (talk) 15:50, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

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I have moved to following paragraph from the article page. The first sentence in italics was kept and moved to another paragraph. Reason: original research. olivier (talk) 16:13, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

The street is often mistakenly written as Smithfield Road by local residents, affected by the Chinese suffix 路 (lo, lit. road) and in Chinese, 士美非路 was often mistaken as 士美菲路 too. Another reason for this mistaken identity could be that streets signs were only provided along the short section of Smithfield north of its intersection with Belcher's Street, which covers only a length of about 72 m. The remainder of this street with an approximate length of 1,300 m has, over the years, not been provided with any street signs at all,[Observation noted by the author, a resident in the neighbourhood] notwithstanding that the government has previously stated that "[i]n the case of long streets, name plates are usually provided at approximately 200 metre intervals".(Official Report of Hong Kong Legislative Council Proceedings, 30 March 1994, page 3052, item 17, reply (b) given by the Secretary for Transport) It was not until May 2008 that additional street name plates were installed at the upper section of Smithfield.[As previously confirmed by the Highways Department and as observed by the author in situ.]