Penang’s debt of gratitude to British waterworks engineer


A bird’s eye view of Guillemard Reservoir in Vale of Tempe, Penang. — Photos: LIM BENG TATT and CHAN BOON KAI/The Star

Fettes worked himself to an early grave overseeing construction of Guillemard Reservoir

OVER a century ago there was a proposal to build a reservoir, which would have flooded a large area of Jalan Kebun Bunga and submerged the whole of Penang Botanic Gardens.

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