Comments on: Behind The Street Names

By: The New Tune | jetsetjanes

The New Tune | jetsetjanes — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:32:53 +0000

[...] coming back to the topic at hand. The latest addition to the Tune Hotels Group is located on Horley Street and offers 121 rooms including 80 double rooms, 40 twin rooms and one wheelchair-friendly room. [...]

By: ipohWorld

ipohWorld — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:20:24 +0000

Sundra, I am sure you are right, but I included the second option in case someone knew better than me. You did! Thank you for that.

By: S.Sundralingam

S.Sundralingam — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:37:18 +0000

Thank you ipohWorld for the information, but now we have two Veerasamys. I found one in Dr.Ho Tak Ming’s IPOH, When Tin Is King (pg486), it states that S.Veerasamy was the first Indian Member of the Federal Council. Furthermore, he was a partner of the Ipoh legal firm of Veerasamy and Yew Koh, thus he had a footing in Ipoh. This reflects that the legal man’s name is the one that is stated on the street. Moreover, the late Tun Sambathan’s father was not a very popular figure. Pardon me if I am not right.

By: ipohWorld

ipohWorld — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:04:14 +0000

I believe that Veerasamy was probably S.N.Veerasamy who was picked by the British after WW1 to represent his ethnic group and sit on the state council. He was a lawyer and a graduate of Oxford University.

I could be wrong as Tun Sambathan’s father was also Veeraswamy.

By: S.Sundralingam

S.Sundralingam — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 02:32:44 +0000

Steven Lee, Jalan Veerasamy is the road leading to Yik Foong Plaza before the traffic lights along Public Bank. Horley Street is also known as Memory Lane and thus far no one as changed this streets name. Any idea who is this Veerasamy?

By: AARON ONG

AARON ONG — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:34:44 +0000

I hope the authorities do not change the original names of the early streets in the name of “patriotism”. Not only that would be akin to hijacking, but history and the character of town town would be erased in the name change.

There are plenty of roads in newer parts of towns that can surely use local names. Unless I’m wrong, usually roads are named for persons who have already passed on to reflect their contributions.

By: ipohWorld

ipohWorld — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:52:13 +0000

It was certainly still called Jalan Horley last Sunday.

By: Steven Lee

Steven Lee — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:56:57 +0000

Isn’t Horley Street renamed as Jalan Veerasingam or something?

By: S.Sundralingam

S.Sundralingam — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:31:03 +0000

Besides being an educator, Reverend Horley was also a staunch anti-opiumists. In the early 1900s, there were about 60 opium saloons in Ipoh. He was one of the pioneers to began to campaign against opium selling in Ipoh.