Category Archives: Penang’s History, My Story

Still standing: Soo Beng building at Jalan Tun Dr Lim Chwee Leong and Carvarvon Street junction. LOOKING at the heavy flow of traffic along Jalan Dr Lim Chwee Leong and Carnarvon Street today, not many would recall it was once […] Continue Reading

Prime spot: Luxury condominiums, hotels and a shopping centre dominate the landscape in Gurney Drive. ASK any older Penangite — that is anyone who is above 50 years old – and he will tell you that the Gurney Drive today […] Continue Reading

Steeped in history: Jalan Cheesemen, which is near the school, is named after Harold Ambrose Robinson Cheeseman, a PFS teacher who started the scouting movement in Penang in 1915. IT IS impossible to write about the history of my alma […] Continue Reading

Glowing: Light Street all lit up with LED bulbs, giving the street a vibrant look. FOUR buildings still stand majestically along Farquhar Street today — the High Court, Cathedral of the Assumption, St Xavier’s Institution (SXI) and St George Church, […] Continue Reading

Popular site: Tourists admiring the paintings on the front door of Han Jiang Ancestral Temple ( Teow Chew Association ) in Chulia Street. Historians said it was named after the Indian kingdom of Chola or Chulias, as the inhabitants were […] Continue Reading

Good ol’ times : An old postcard showing rickshaws plying Campbell Street in Penang from the book ‘Penang – Postcard Collection 1899-1930’. — Courtesy of Malcolm Wade THANKS to the old Penang’s status as a bustling metropolis and port, the […] Continue Reading

Rich in culture: Armenian Street was once home to prominent Armenians whose touch in architecture and business can still be felt in Penang today. Wong Chun Wai may have left Penang more than two decades ago to settle down in […] Continue Reading