It was named in 1858 after Henry Pottinger, the first Governor of Hong Kong, serving from 1843 to 1844.

It was rebuilt, but subsequently a different site was selected and the current Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception at Caine Road was completed 1888.

An Air-Raid Precaution Tunnel was built beneath the street in 1940-41 but was abandoned after the Second World War and was filled back in the 1980s.

[3] The bombing was part of a systematic bombardment of the Hong Kong Island's north shore that was launched on that day.

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