Gloucester Rd.Causeway Bay’s sole visible colonial relic is a small ship cannon known as the Noon Day Gun, celebrated in Noel Coward’s song Mad Dogs and Englishmen and which is, even today, detonated daily at noon by a smartly dressed officer. There are many stories to explain why, but the most widespread tells of how an employee of the trading firm Jardine Matheson once fired off a salute to one of his company’s ships, outraging the governor (who had the monopoly on this sort of exercise), who ordered the offence to be re-enacted daily at noon for evermore.

Unless you catch the actual event, the gun itself is a bit underwhelming, and just placed in a railed-off garden.