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Celebrating The Coronation Of Queen Elizabeth II On Taiping Lake
The pictures show the large floats, constructed by local people and displayed on the Taiping Lake to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation on 2 June 1953. The swans on the left being donated by the people of Pasir Hitam, Taiping.
The oldest lake gardens in the country, this park sprawls over 62 hectares at the foot of the hill resort of Maxwell Hill (now Bukit Larut), named after Sir William Edward Maxwell. Originally a tin mining pool, the area was donated, in 1884, by, Towkay Chung Thye Phin the son of Capitan China Chung Keng Quee. Originally swamps and abandoned mining pools, it was drained, levelled, planted and fenced and by 1911 was considered to be the most beautiful of any gardens in the Federated Malay States.
To read more about Maxwell Hill, click here.
To read more about Chung Thye Phin click here.
To read more about the Coronation Celebrations in Ipoh in June 1953, click here.
To see a tourist brochure about Taiping in e-Book form, click here.