Also known locally as Coffin Street due to a number of Chinese coffin maker shops along the street, Carnarvon Street is located right at the heritage zone of George Town. The wall caricature depicts a paper effigy maker trying to create a paper car which would later be burned for the those in the other world, according to Chinese belief.
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.
A steel rod sculpture at the wall of a building along Kimberley Street, a street famous for Penang local food stalls in George Town.
A steel rod art sculpture at a wall along Jalan Pintal Tali (Rope Walk), George Town.
Steel rod sculptures along Stewart Lane, George Town.
According to the sculptures, the five foot way was said to be the narrowest in the island.
A steel rod wall caricature located at Muntri Street, George Town. The caricature tells the origin of ‘amah’ who are Cantonese housemaids coming to Penang in the old times to serve as domestic helpers in most wealthy Chinese families.
One of the many wall sculptured caricatures made of steel rods scattered around in George Town, Penang. This one is at Armenian Street, George Town.
A steel rod wall caricature depicting the origin of the street’s name, Love Lane.
A wall caricature nearby the Leith Street-Muntri Street junction showing the place where the now famous Jimmy Choo started his shoe-making apprenticeship.
A steel rod caricature depicting the historical origin or story associated with a certain area in George Town.
With its acquired World Heritage status from UNESCO, street arts such as the above can be easily spotted at a corner of a street in George Town.