Old Santubong school.Circa early 1950's,the wall and roof made from nipah leaves. This school building is much more earlier than Santubong District Council School.
Wednesday, 16 December 2020
Serian Town
An eye bird view of Serian Town. The. landmark can be sewn clearly is the Serian Lake at the edge of the town.
Saturday, 12 December 2020
Kampung Muara Tebas
Kampung Muara Tebas - Circa 1988.The well known Chinese Temple on the hill is one of the trademark for this village.
Tuesday, 8 December 2020
Old Kubah Ria Complex
Old Photo of Kubah Ria and Satok Suspension bridge. Circa 1983.The Old Kubah Ria open sometimes on that year. The Old Kubah Ria building now fully demished and become empty land and parking spaces
Sunday, 6 December 2020
Dewan Suarah Marudi
Dewan Suarah Marudi. Everybig ciry and town. in Sarawak have their own Dewan Suarah with each of the building have their own architecture. None of the building have the some pattern but all have the same purpose which is became place of meet and place for local having activities such as matrimonal ceremony, exhibition, meeting, concert and lots more.
Sea Horse statue at Miri waterfront
Sea Horse statue at Miri waterfront ( nearby Miri river mouth and Pullman Hotel )
Kampung Bako.. Gateway to Bako national park
Kampung bako seen from across the river
The blue building on the hill is the Kampung Surau. There are other jetty use by local sampan peddlar here, not including a jetty for visitor to go to Bako National Park which is bigger than other jetty. Kampung Bako also known as their Belacan trademark as most of people here work as fisherman.
Saturday, 5 December 2020
Marudi ferry Entrance
Entrance gate to Marudi ferry, only certain vehicle are allowed to use the ferry in term of size and height. That is why the warning gate are put there to warn the user.
Premier Hotel Sibu construction
Premier hotel during construction,Circa 1973.Premier Hotel prides itself in being part of Sibu's history as the first to incorporate high-rise architectural grandeur with commerce practicability.
Rajah and Governor of Sarawak
A combo photo at the wall showing 3 Sarawak white Rajah and 4 Governor during British Collonial era there.
Friday, 4 December 2020
Old Roxy Cinema
Roxy cinema at Batu 3 flyover, near to sunny Hill school. The building demolished few years ago and now replaced with Roxy Hotel.
Peace meeting ceremony at Marudi
A peace meeting ceremony between Kayan/Kenyah of Batang Kayan with the Klemantan people from East and West Kalimantan. The ceremony was held at fort Hose, Marudi.Tama bulan and Tama Kulieng, leader from Kenyah tri be is a key man during this peace meeting.
Old Roxy Cinema
Roxy cinema at Batu 3 flyover, near to sunny Hill school. The building demolished few years ago and now replaced with Roxy Hotel.
Queen Elizabeth during a visit to Sarawak on March 1972
Queen Elizabeth during a visit to Sarawak on March 1972
Wednesday, 2 December 2020
Satok suspension bridge
Satok suspension bridge, Circa early 1990's.The original bridge collapse in early 2000's,earlier than that the bridge has been closed for publics as for security issue.It is not safe because of the rusty part of the bridge.
Tuesday, 1 December 2020
Old Sarawak Map
Old Sarawak Map, when it was few division in Sarawak. Samarahan still with Kuching, Sarikei with Sibu and Bintulu with Miri. A few years later, this division divided into new division for the purpose of better administration.
Ang Cheng Ho building Kuching
Ang Cheng Ho building. Circa 1960's,the highest building on that area during that time. This building demolished by bombing in 1996.
Monday, 30 November 2020
Marudi air strip
Marudi air strip, the only plane can landed here is twin otter that can accommodate 20 people inside.And the runway also short,and not suitable for bigger plane to land here.
Miri Central Police Station building
Central Police Station Miri, just nearby to Majlis Bandaraya Miri Building and across Yu Lan Plaza.
Miri Town in 1939
Miri town in 1939 (based on handwriting on the photo), the building is Government office which is District and Resident office. We can see line of derrick behind at Canada Hill, before 1950's,Miri still produce oil onshore and only after 1950's, oil exploration at sea started.
Sunday, 29 November 2020
Wisma Bapa Malaysia at Petra Jaya
Wisma Bapa Malaysia, Petra Jaya. Office for Chief Minister and several ministries and government department.
Padungan war memorial. tower
A march parade at War Memorial clock tower. at Padungan. The clock tower still there today, nearby Padungan gateway and great White Cat statue.
A landmark at Taman awam Miri
A tower for sight seeing from the hill, and also a landmark at taman awam Miri.
A selakau girl
A Selakau girl with her traditional attire. Selakau people can be found mostly consentrated at Lundu and Sematan area.
Saturday, 28 November 2020
Watching Sarawak Regatta from hill
People watching Sarawak regatta at hill nearby Sarawak river. The hill probably place where Borneo Company building was and currently Kuching Hilton. Circa 1950's.
Old Odeon Cinema at Kuching
Odeon cinema, behind the Oriental Emporium and Supermarket. The building was demolished and replace with Tun Jugah Building. This Cinema known for showing chinese movies and sometime showing live performance, either Chinese Opera or Singing/Music concert.
Friday, 27 November 2020
Old Tanah Putih Port authority
The Tanah Puteh Port built in 1961 was to remove shipping down river from the Sarawak Steamship Wharf and Ban Hock Wharf which had become inadequate for increased shiipping tonnage by that time. The Tanah Puteh Port with longer wharf space allowed up to 4 ships to berth at the same time and bigger godowns to store more cargoes and weigh-bridges to weigh lorries going in and out.
When Pending Port opened in the 1980's it was used simultaneously with Tanah Puteh Port so there was no waiting time for ships to berth. The bigger ships berthed at Pending and the smaller ones went to Tanah Puteh via the winding Sarawak river further away. The Senari Port was built to handle container ships especially (and cruise ships) and Pending could at last replace Tanah Puteh as its handling operation was quite similar.
This port totally demolished sometimes in 1998 to give way a new bridge which known as Tun Salahuddin Bridge today.. Only two jetty from this port can be seen until today ( November 2020). The jetty mostly use by angler, try their luck there.
Thursday, 26 November 2020
Oriental Emporium and Supermarket
Oriental Emporium and Supermarket also known as Oriental Plaza, a shopping mall in 1980's.Located at current McDonald Padungan building which across Grand Margherita. This supermarket close down in early 1990's.
