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I’m sure many of you have seen this place (picture below). It’s said to be near Kok Kee Restaurant.

Familiar? Here’s another shot of the mansion, a different angle…

Some of you must be smiling and nodding your heads. What we’d like to know is what’s become of this place? We hope it won’t be torn down [...]

Remember them? (see picture below)

(These lions can be found on either side of the front porch, of the Falim House)
Yes, these are the two faithful lions who ‘guard’ Falim House; we were also told that these lions were made of cast iron, not stone!
They are painted red, obviously for “good luck”. I wonder if they [...]

Foo Nyit Tse started off as miner, under Foo Choo Choon; he later opened his first mine in 1898. In the 1920s, Foo Nyit Tse (who by then was a well known mining Towkay) built Falim - ‘a self contained housing estate, with a large num of low cost terrace housing and 40 shop houses’. [...]

We featured this building in http://www.ipohworld.org/blog/?p=1712 where we showed the original mansion that belonged to Dato Seri Lau Pak Kuan OBE JP and what the owners of the Coliseum Club had done to deface this beautiful building.
In the comments on that blog mashi74 reported that the stylistic roof had been removed and, as you can see from [...]

This is one of the many mansions which belonged to one of Ipoh’s rich towkays. I’m sure some of you recognise it! The picture below shows what has become of the place in recent times….

….a club! Notice the changes, especially the windows and balcony. Anyone know WHEN the mansion was turned into a club?

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The Ipohworld’s World blog is wonderful.
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I tried to find in your posts information about one building which is located near the roundabout at Gopeng Road and Jalan Tambun, diagonally opposite Yuk Choy Primary School, but I haven’t been able to.
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A large furniture shop is now built in front of it (Kota Furniture). I knew that [...]