Gardeners in Action

On 9th Feb 2012, we engaged some gardeners to start clearing the garden, front and back ...

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That's all folks ...

Before Taking Over (Part 5)

This post covers the kitchen area, as well as the toilet and bathroom beside it ...

Fig 1: Kitchen Sink and Cooking Surface

Fig 2: Toilet attached to Kitchen Area

Fig 3: A small bathroom

That's all for now ...

Before Taking Over (Part 4)

Here are photos of the ground floor inside the house ...

Fig 1: The Living Area on the Ground Floor

Fig 2: The Dining Area

Fig 3: Dining and Living Areas

Fig 4: Dining and Living Area again

Fig 5: The Staircase and Storeroom under the stairs

Fig 6: The electricals are a little bit dated

Well, that's it for this posting ...

Before Taking Over (Part 3)

Here are some photos of the inside of the house ... unfortunately I only have mainly photos of the upstairs for now. Will add more shots of downstairs later when I get them.

Pic 1: Th Staircase

Pic 2: Upstairs Sitting Room (or TV area)

Pic 3: Master bedroom (facing front of house)

Pic 4: Another view of upstairs living room. That's my cousin.

Pic 5: One of the two back rooms

Pic 6: The other back room

Fig 7: Upstairs bathroom

Before Taking Over (Part 2)

Here are more photos of the place on the day I took the keys ...

Fig 1: The view of the Back Garden (looking towards riight)

Fig 2: View of Back Garden (looking towards left). Water tank in foreground. Storage shed behind.

Fig 3: View of Back Garden (towards right side of fence)

Fig 4: View from upstairs (towards right side)

Fig 4a: View from upstairs (right side, but looking towards the road)

Fig 5: Front Garden view

Fig 6: Another Front Garden view

That's all for now. Check Part 3 for inside of house ...

Before Taking Over (Part 1)

Here are some photos of the place on the first day I went in ... after a long, long time ..

Fig 1: View from the road

Fig 2: In front of house

Fig 3: Close Up of the Main Door

Fig 4: Another view from the road

Fig 5: View of road from my balcony

OK, more photos in Part 2 ...

Location of the Property

Here's a Google Map screenshot ...  note the location o the General Hospital towards the bottom right. That should give you an idea of where this is. Another point to note is that what used to be called Palm Road is now Jalan Tun Ahmad Zaidi Adruce.

Now, here's a map with the exact property highlighted ...

There you have it ... 48 Medan Temple or 48 Temple Square ...

The House in 2009

In 2009, I again took some shots of the place ... once in  January and again in May

Fig 1: Jan 2009

Fig 2: Jan 2009

Fig 3: Jan 2009

Fig 4: May 2009

Fig 5: May 2009

The House in 2007

These are some photos of the property back in Oct 2007. I happened to be passing by and took these shots ... It was obviously tenanted.

Fig 1

Fig 2

If anyone has other photos of the house during this or earlier times, do send them to me.

The House in the 1980s and 1990s

Another placeholder ...

The House in the 1950s, 60s and 70s

I don't have many photos of the old wooden house at 48 Palm Road back in the 1960s and 1970s. The house was demolished around 1980 and a new brick one built in its place.

Here is a very interesting family photo taken back in the late 1950s. My parents are not in this photo as they were probably outstation in some small town in Sarawak. I was not even born yet.

Fig 1: Family photo in front of old wooden house
(anyone know when this photo was taken?)

Origins of the property

I am keeping this posting as a placeholder, for when I can find enough material to piece together the early history of the property.

The property once belonged to someone called Kho Leng Guan. I think he was a contractor. He used to own a huge area in that location, which he sub-divided and sold over the years. My grandparents bought the land in the early 1950s and built the original wooden house there. I am still looking for photos of that house.

My earliest recollection of the property was in the early 1960s when I was a child and stayed there for  some time. It was the home of my grandparents. My grandfather was Ignatius YONG Yaw Tong an my grandmother Teresa LIM Nyuk Kwee.

At that time, the lane on which the house was located was a gravelly single-lane affair. When two cars came from opposite directions on this lane, one had to go right to the edge of the lane (sometimes risking going into the "longkang" or drain) in order that the other vehicle might squeeze by.

The address back then was 48 Palm Road. It seems that there is no more Palm Road, as it has been renamed to the difficult-to-remember Jalan Tun Ahmad Zaidi Adruce. In addition to that, the lane itself was first changed to Jalan Medan Temple (Temple Square Road ... even though there is no temple anywhere near), and currently the signpost on the lane says Lorong Pisang 2C.

Introduction to this blog

Just a few lines to start off this blog ... I will return to wordsmith this posting later ...

This blog is for documenting the process of transforming the property at what used to be 48 Palm Road into a Kuching nest for the Yong family in the 21st century ...

Come back and visit often, to catch new updates and photos