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Immigrants from China waiting at Victoria Barracks to register for local identity cards in 1979. Photo: Chan Kiu
Construction workers celebrate the completion of the tunnelling work for the MTR Island Line from Chai Wan to Admiralty at a breakthrough ceremony in 1984. Photo: Robin Lam
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Turnstiles at a new MTR station keep turning as the Island Line formally opens in 1985. An MTRC spokesman said more than 136,000 people travelled on the line between Chai Wan and Admiralty on the first day. Photo: Robin Lam
A bomb was placed in a rubbish bin between two lifts outside a canteen at the Queensway Government Offices building in 1987.
It exploded during lunchtime and injured a security guard. Pictured here is the site of the explosion - the lift lobby on the fifth floor. Photo: SCMP Pictures
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Hong Kong's first woman double-decker bus driver, Cheng Tong Siu-ying, started on Citybus' busy Admiralty-Ocean Park route in 1987. Photo: SCMP Pictures
About 60,000 people march along Queensway to demand the removal of Chinese Premier Li Peng in 1989, during pro-democracy demonstrations. Photo: SCMP Pictures
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About 130 second world war naval shells were unearthed at a construction site in Admiralty in 1991. Photo: SCMP Pictures
Brian Chau Tak-hay (left), Secretary for Trade and Industry, uses a mobile phone during a ride on an MTR train from Admiralty to Tsim Sha Tsui in 1993. Looking on is Herbert Ng, director of Hongkong Telecom CSL Mobile. CSL was the world's first digital mobile telephone network to enable users to make or receive calls in an underground railway system. Photo: SCMP Pictures
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Couples queue at the Admiralty Marriage Registry to ensure their happy day falls on October 22, 1995, one of the most auspicious days of the lunar calendar that year. Photo: SCMP Pictures
Reclamation work at the former Tamar military base continues in Admiralty in 1995, where Citic Tower stands today. Photo: SCMP Pictures
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Britain's Union flag is lowered at the handover ceremony on June 30, 1997 at the Convention and Exhibition Centre. Photo: Robert Ng
A stroll around the Convention Centre seems a little less picturesque as fog almost completely obscures the Admiralty skyline in 1998. Photo: David Wong
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Revellers enjoy the carousel at the World Carnival at the Tamar site, Admiralty on Christmas Day 2003. More than 100,000 visitors attended. Photo: Robert Ng
A woman sleeps in a bed placed in the the Admiralty MTR station in 2004 as part of a McDonald's advertising campaign. Photo: SCMP Pictures
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The Tamar site at Admiralty in 2006. Photo: Robert Ng
Members of the press get close to a taxi carrying former Chief Secretary Anson Chan Fang On-sang in Admiralty in 2006 as she leaves the July 1 rally for universal suffrage. Photo: Dustin Shum
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Police bomb disposal officers destroy an unexploded second world war bomb unearthed by a construction worker at the new government headquarters site at Tamar in 2008. Photo: Sam Tsang
The Committee For Peace Not War gathers in front of the consulate general of Israel to protest against Israeli military attacks on Gaza in 2009. Photo: Felix Wong
