Panglima Street – A Trunk Road?

By |2009-08-20T13:24:15+08:00August 20th, 2009|Categories: Ipoh Town|Tags: , , |

The picture shows the Panglima Street, Ipoh around 1904. It was named after Datoh Panglima Kinta who originally owned the land that Ipoh is built on. In  Perak, the elephants could be seen on the streets as they were used  as a main carrier for both people and goods, particularly in the tin mines. Perak was the main exporter of the elephants to other Malay states in Malaya then.