Welcome to Teluk Anson Town
We thank LingLi Tan for sharing this picture with us. Maybe someone familiar with Teluk Anson (or Teluk Intan, as it is called now) could tell us more 🙂
Month: April 2022
“balik kampong”
With Raya round the corner, many will be travelling back to their hometowns this year. Of course, such kampong houses (like the ones above) may no longer be around…but they were once a common sight.
Perak Acedemy presents…
Dr Wu Lien-Teh Education Society Malaysia and Wu Lien-Teh Institute, Harbin Medical University, China would like to invite you to a Zoom Webinar. Date: Apr 28, 2022 Time:01:00 PM – 03:00 PM Kuala Lumpur Tittle: Dr Wu Lien-Teh International Conference 2022 Register in advance for this webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bMrsXp6vTn-dVUqd9lY8lQ After registering, you will receive a confirmation […]
Celebrity Lookalike
We’ve heard of Elvis impersonators. Some of them sound almost like the late King of Rock and Roll….almost. Here is a Yul Brynner impersonator.
Anderson Road?
Yes, believe it or not…this is an early view of Anderson Road. We believe it’s very early 1900.
Make Way!
No, this is not a scene from the floods 😉 It is in fact an entourage crossing the Perak River. This picture was taken in 1913, and can be found in the G.C.V.O. booklet. The booklet records the celebration week that to place to mark the award of the Sultan of Perak with the Royal […]
“Visit Malaya”
This is 1 of 4 of the hand painted posters, measuring 81cm x 100cm, produced in 1961 for the Visit Malaya in Orient promotion. Does anyone recall seeing any of these posters around the town in the 1960s?
A List of Monuments and Sites
We thank Philip LaBrooy for sharing the above article with us. Unfortunately, we’re not sure of the date of this article (nor the newspaper it was taken from). This is a list of historical buildings, monuments and sites compiled by the Museums Department. Here’s a close-up of the Perak column:
A catalogue for dredges?
This picture is taken from a Werf Conrad Tin Dredges Catalogue. Here’s a close up of a dredge, showing the dredge buckets. The picture below shows a dredge bucket, from two different angles.
170 years!
The above badge has the words “Christian Brothers’ Schools” and “Signum Fidei” clearly printed on it, one at the bottom of the badge and the other at the top. In between there is an image of Peninsula Malaysia as well as a figure of a Catholic Brother. At the top end of the image of […]
The 1st Meeting…
This picture was taken at the Ipoh Town Hall, where the 1st UMNO Perak meeting was held. It was chaired by none other than Dato Panglima Bukit Gantang Wahab, way back in 1946.