This elegant 1907 three-storey corner building  originally housed a medical hall established by Dr. R.M. Connoly, then known as Oldfields Dispensaries Ltd. but presently called The George Town Dispensary. An Irishman trained in Trinity College, Dr. Connoly was recruited to Malaya on government service. He then went into private practice, became an editor of Times of Malaya and founded the Perak Anti-Opium Society.

The miner Chung Thye Pin (1879-1935), a Tseng Lung Hakka and the ... more