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School Friends Visit A Batu Gajah Mining Pool For Swimming And Fishing
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Subject :School Friends Visit a Batu Gajah Mining Pool for Swimming and Fishing
Published By : None
Location : Batu Gajah, Perak
Estimated Year : 1956
Media Type : Photograph
Source : Ho Hoo Wan, Ipoh
Remark : Despite the dangers of deep mining pools, treachorous waterfalls and communist terrorists during the Malayan Emergency, young people were often out and about in the 1950s, enjoying their freedom with apparently few reports of accidents.
In this series of photographs a group from Batu Gajah are enjoying a visit to a Batu Gajah mining pool for relaxation, swimming and a spot of fishing. The photographs show, from left to right, top to bottom:
Ho Hoo Wan, our donor is the grandson of Ho Yuk Phooi, a well known name in Batu Gajah.
To read more about Ho Yuk Phooi and his family, click here.
To see some of the same group of young people at the Kampar waterfalls, click here.
In this series of photographs a group from Batu Gajah are enjoying a visit to a Batu Gajah mining pool for relaxation, swimming and a spot of fishing. The photographs show, from left to right, top to bottom:
Ho Hoo Wan, our donor is the grandson of Ho Yuk Phooi, a well known name in Batu Gajah.
To read more about Ho Yuk Phooi and his family, click here.
To see some of the same group of young people at the Kampar waterfalls, click here.
Filename : 20100103-001