Penang Street Art (Transfer Road Sidewalk Traders)


Another steel rod sculpture installed at the traffic light junction of Transfer Road and Hutton Lane at George Town.
This sculpture depicts the traders and vendors (mainly from China in the old days) who set up small businesses along the five foot sideway in the area. Some of these small traders would later rise to be among the wealthiest in Penang.

George Town Street View: Lumut Lane

Lumut Lane (or Lorong Lumut) is a small street that connects both Acheen Street and Toh Aka Lane. It was said that the leaders of the Acheen community of traders, pilgrim brokers and writers had been living at Lumut Lane’s area since the 19th century in George Town.

Penang Isle: Hock Teik Cheng Sin Temple

The Hock Teik Cheng Sin Temple (or Poh Hock Seah), is a clan temple of the Hokkien people in Penang who had their roots from the Southern Fujian Province in China. The temple is located right at the corner of Armenian Street and Jalan Masjid Kapitan Keling junction.

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