The open market of Gresson Street is part of the Wan Chai Heritage Trail.

[3] A noted shootout, the "Siege of Gresson Street", took place here on 22 January 1918,[4] as a gang of armed-robbers were trapped while raiding a tenement[5] at No.6 Gresson Street.

The Governor, Francis May, a former Captain Superintendent of Police, personally negotiated with the last remaining gang member, but to no avail.

When the young man refused to surrender, the Royal Garrison Artillery was used to "bomb" him out.

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