Historical 'House of 72 families’ to go


Sisters Goay Choo (yellow), Goay Eng, 66, (red) and Goay Lan, 64, (purple) drying clothes at the premises where they had spent their childhood. — Photos: CHAN BOON KAI/The Star

THE future of another building carrying more than a century of history along Burmah Road is in the dark.

This old two-storey building was famously called ‘Lang Chia Keng’ in Penang Hokkien, which means ‘House of Trishawmen’.

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