Friday, January 4, 2008

Penang Clock Tower

This 18.3 meter high Victoria Memorial Clock Tower at the junction of Jalan Tun Syed Barakbah and Lebuh Light was built to commemorate Queen Victoria's 1897 Jubilee.

The Tower was donated by a wealthy Penangites, Cheah Chen Eok. The 60ft-high (18.3m) tower symbolizing 60 years of the Queen's reign and only completed in 1902 when the Queen has passed away. It costed 35,000 Straits Dollars to build.

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