Jalan Tun Syed Sheh Barakbah
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Jalan Tun Syed Sheh Barakbah, George Town, Penang (16 November 2020)
Jalan Tun Syed Sheh Barakbah is a coastal road in George Town, Penang. It starts at the Light Street Roundabout, in front of the Queen Victoria Memorial Clocktower and ends at Light Street in front of the Penang Supreme Court.
Jalan Tun Syed Sheh Barakbah was named after Tun Tan Sri Syed Sheh Al-Haj bin Syed Hassan Barakbah, a Kedahan of Arab-Malay descent who served for two terms as the third Governor of Penang between February 1969 until February 1975. The road that was renamed in his honour was known before that by two names: Fort Road, which runs from the clocktower to the bend at Fort Cornwallis, and The Esplanade, from the bend at Fort Cornwallis to the Esplanade Road, now known as Jalan Padang Kota Lama. That bend of Jalan Tun Syed Sheh Barakbah was historically known as Fort Point.
In Other Words ...
Jalan Tun Syed Sheh Barakbah is also known in Hokkien as Kuan1'a1 Kak3, meaning "Checkpoint Corner" or Koo Kuan'a Kak (Old Checkpoint Corner), and as Phak Kew Por or "Cricket (lit. playing ball) Field".
Map of Jalan Tun Syed Sheh Barakbah
Sights along Jalan Tun Syed Sheh Barakbah
- Cenotaph
- Fort Cornwallis (GPS: 5.42008, 100.34408)
- Fort Cornwallis Food Court (GPS: 5.42072, 100.34344)
- Fort Cornwallis Lighthouse (GPS: 5.4208, 100.3446)
- Fort Point (GPS: 5.42097, 100.34481)
- Fort Point Hindu Temple (GPS: 5.42133, 100.34452)
- Light Street Roundabout (GPS: 5.41908, 100.34407)
- Medan Renong Padang Kota Lama (GPS: 5.42288, 100.34074)
- Millennium Monument (GPS: 5.42174, 100.34244)
- Padang Kota Lama (GPS: 5.42121, 100.34222)
- Pinang Fountain (GPS: 5.41916, 100.34397)
- Queen Victoria Memorial Clocktower (GPS: 5.41921, 100.34407)
- Royal Malaysian Navy Station (GPS: 5.42155, 100.34397)
- Speakers Square (GPS: 5.42155, 100.34397)
- Tourist Information Centre (GPS: 5.41965, 100.34453)
Getting there
Take Rapid Penang Free Shuttle Bus, get down at Station No. 4 (Imigresen). From there, cross Light Street in the direction of the Queen Victoria Memorial Clocktower and you will arrive at the start of Jalan Tun Syed Sheh Barakbah under the clocktower.Narrated Walking Tour of Fort Cornwallis and The Esplanade
Jalan Tun Syed Sheh Barakbah, George Town, Penang (15 December 2012)
The esplanade at Jalan Tun Syed Sheh Barakbah (15 December 2012)
The Cenotaph beside Jalan Tun Syed Sheh Barakbah (15 December 2012)
Millennium Square beside Jalan Tun Syed Sheh Barakbah (15 December 2012)
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