Brewster Road, Hugh Low Street, Tiger Lane, Leech Street, Clayton Road, Anderson Road, Hume Street, Fair Park…
Ipoh folks would know what these roads are about, but sadly the younger generations are not knowing much about these… as the road names are being changed to something else instead.
I am always pissed when I heard that a major road name is being changed. The local councils always used the excuse of wanting to show more local contents with the road names… but what they have done is erasing part of the local heritage that we have.
Like it or not, English colonisation has dominated a large portion of our country history… there is no point denying the fact, and changing the road names doesn’t mean changing the past.
Sad thing is… the name changing isn’t going to end. It is still happening in Ipoh, KL and all over Malaysia. Nobody seems to care though…