Town that grew from a tin tycoon’s mansion

Falim House was owned by prominent miner, the late Foo Nyit See, who built his version of a self-contained township around the mansion in the 1920s.

THE white mansion along Jalan Lahat in Falim, Ipoh, is simply eye-catching.

There is an intriguing story behind it – about a man named Foo Choo Choon – said to have been the richest Chinese man in the world in the 1890s.