Taiping Old Clock Tower 1 Jun 2016

After our lunch at the Larut Matang Hawker Center, we just stopped at the road side to snap a few photos of this historical landmark of the Taiping old town.

The Clock Tower of Taiping is the iconic landmark building of the town. It was under threat to be demolished before being conserved as an important history of Taiping colorful past.

The Old Clock Tower of Taiping was built in the year of 1881. Originally made of wood, the structure was rebuilt with bricks nine years later, in the year of 1890. The actual building of the Taiping Clock Tower was in the shape of a square fort, part of which has since been demolished.

Between 1908 and 1950, the Taiping Clock Tower building as used as the town police station as well as the fire brigade. After that, it was left abandoned until recently, when it was converted into the Taiping Visitor Information Centre.

Red telephone booth at the entrance is standard public feature during the British Colonial days.

We did walk in to the Visitor Information Center, and did ask for the local map. I was so happy that I managed to get a Matang and Kuala Sepetang map which indicated places of interests.