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| Title: Buddhist Temple, Simpang Pulai 1920. Photo by Jawa Barat on Ipoh Discovery Channel/ Fb. |
Saw the
above photo on Ipoh Discovery Channel and recognised it immediately. It was the
limestone hill Gunong Lanno beside the Sungai Raia. The location is Kg Kepayang
and not Simpang Pulai which is a kilometer to the north.
It had two
cows and its herder in the river probably after a days work and took a dip
before calling it a day.
Rubber and
tin was thee economy in that decade and cows besides elephants were a popular
beast of burden assisting those industries .
The course
of the river is still with its original alignment as now and the Kong Fook Ngam
Buddhist temple overall is still the same though with some slight alteration
It can be
compared with this photo submitted by Ching Boon Tat from Kinta Valley Watch. A
beautiful contribution.
Save Gunong
Lanno.
Kinta Kid
Thank You kintakid for posting this beautiful scene then and now. It seems immortal compared to the remnants of the once highway town of Kg. Kepayang. Kg Kepayang was already showing signs of being run down in the 70s.
ReplyDeleteI could not have missed the scenes twice a day as I travelled to work in Gopeng daily six days a week for 10 years.
I believe EU Tong Sen Mine was south of Sg. Raja near Tekka Hill. It was a tribute mine of Gopeng Consolidated Ltd.
And Gopeng Consolidated Ltd operated the Tekka Mine until its depletion in the late 70s. The French Tekka sold the mine to Gopeng Consolidated.
If I am not mistaken, much of what is left south of Sg. Raja is being built up with residencies and industrial complexes.
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