| VOP Code: | KSN172 |
| Category: | Photographs & Paintings |
| Scale/No.: | n/a |
| Title: | Hardwicke – house |
| Keywords: | Northam Road / Jalan Sultan Ahmad Shah, Building, Bungalow, Villa, people playing tennis, |
| Features: | image taken: 1991-1993, Context: set in a large compound on the corner of Pangkor Road, neighbouring two other houses Chatsworth and Welbeck – these match the names of three neighbouring grand country house estates in England, Details: Neo-gothic lancet arches, square drip stones and decorative spandrels, tropical verandahs and shaded balconies, Materials: Chinese terracotta V tiled roof, timber shutters with glazed transom lights, and glazed casement widows, masonry walls and lime plaster, Personalities: residence of Khaw Joo Ghee, sold to Lim Cheng Eam who was educated at Clare College Cambridge, one of the College’s former students was William Cavendish whose mother Bess of Hardwick gathered the estates of Hardwick, Welbeck and Chatsworth into her family, Penang Island, |
| Year: | 1920 |
| Source: |
Hardwicke – house
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We would like to thank the Archives and Special Collections, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Library, University of London, for providing access to the Light Letters Collection. We are particularly indebted to Susannah Rayner, who was head of Archives and Special Collections at SOAS Library and Erich Kesse, the Digital Library Project Officer at SOAS Library. Our gratitude goes to Dr. Mulaika Hijjas, Professor Ernst Ulrich Kratz and Dato’ Dr. Annabel Teh Gallop. Our appreciation is also extended to Zulqarnain Abu Bakar, Muhaimin Sulam, M Pisol Mat Isa, M Nuri al-Amin and Raja Ahmad Iskandar Raja Yaacob of the Department of Management and Humanities, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS.
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