The Standard Chartered Bank at No.2, Beach Street, is the oldest bank in George Town. The building was constructed with the British Palladian architecture style.
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Penang Isle: Eastern & Oriental Hotel
Located at the UNESCO Heritage zone of George Town, Eastern & Oriental Hotel is a luxury hotel established in 1885 during the British colonial times by four Armenian brothers, the Sarkies. Having survived over a century to this day, the hotel is claimed to have been visited by famous people such as Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Noel Coward, Rudyard Kipling, Somerset Maugham and Hermann Hesse. Eastern & Oriental Hotel is located along Farquhar Street, George Town.
George Town High Court
A Hidden Manor at Gurney Drive
Penang Isle: Wesley Methodist Church
The Wesley Methodist Church in Penang, located at the junction of Larut Road and Burma Road, is the oldest Methodist Church in Malaysia.
The English architecture style Church building was built in 1911 and its cornerstone was laid on 26 December the same year. The land on Anson and Burma Roads was exchanged for Larut Road, where the Church was to be built.
The Church was dedicated by Bishop W.P. Eveland on in memory of Bishop James M. FitzGerald, who presided over the 15th Session of the Malaysia Conference meeting in Penang in 1907, and who died in Hong Kong later in the same year and also in memory of his daughter, Miss Cornelia FitzGerald, who died in Penang in 1907 too.
For more info, please visit the Church’s official website at www.wesleypenang.org.
Beach Street Architecture II
Penang Hill: David Brown’s Restaurant
Located right at the top of Penang Hill’s Strawberry Hill, this British style restaurant serves English food with its pleasant hilltop surroundings.
For more info on the restaurant, please refer HERE.
Penang State Museum and Art Gallery
The Penang State Museum and Art Gallery which is located along Farquhar Street is consisted of a colonial-era building built in two phases in 1896, and later when funds were adequate, in 1906. For more info on the museum, please refer HERE.
Portrait of the City Hall
Penang’s old City Hall (Esplanade).
A Portrait of Fort Cornwallis
The Fort Cornwallis is the largest remaining British fort in Malaysia. The largest cannon located at the seafront corner of the fort, known as Seri Rambai Cannon, was a gift from the Dutch to the Sultan of Johore