Janus: Photograph collection of the British Association of Malaysia and Singapore

RCS/BAM 3 contains:
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46	Garden party at the R[esident] G[eneral], Perak, [July 1897]
47	Presentation of G.C.V.O. to Sultan of Perak, September 25, 1913
48	E.W. Birch raising the Perak flag at the ceremony of the taking over of Rahman (or Reman) from Siam, July 16 1909
49	Armistice Day parade at the Ipoh Club, 1921
50	Meeting of Perak State Council at Ipoh, 12th Dec. 1925
51	The floating stage risen to above road level during Parit floods, 1926
52	Parit floods - when the River Perak rose 25 feet above normal in 1926
53	Parit floods at Post Office, 1926
54	Sir Hugh Clifford arriving at Parit on temporary landing stage, 1927
55	Governor and High Commissioner Sir Hugh Clifford at Parit 1927
56	Sultan of Perak, with A.S. Haynes, inspecting M.V.I. at Teluk Anson, October 1928
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Photograph collection of the British Association of Malaysia and Singapore

Title	The floating stage risen to above road level during Parit floods, 1926
Reference	BAM 3/51
Creator	Unknown
Covering Dates	1926
Extent and Medium	Good condition.

Content and context

Photographer unknown.

192 x 145 mm. A view from the flooded riverbank looking towards the floating stage on the Perak River. British Malaya (March 1927, p. 303-304) provides a detailed description of the floods as follows: 'In Ipoh it began to rain on December 23rd, and on that day the Kinta and the Pari Rivers came down in flood and rose over the Old Town. The whole of Station Road became a raging torrent, and by the 27th the train services between Ipoh and Penang and Kuala Lumpur had to be suspended, and the tin-mine industry of the Kinta Valley was brought practically to a standstill. On the 27th the Klang and Gombak Rivers overflowed and flooded Kuala Lumpur the estates around Batu Gajah also suffered, and Parit township practically became part of the Perak River. Teluk Anson town itself was not flooded at first, but areas around suffered, and the Perak River came rushing through it swollen to a size said to be past the recollection of the oldest inhabitant.' The article also describes the damage done by the floods in the eastern states of Kelantan and Pahang where, at the Kuala Raman Estate, 97 inches of rain fell in December with 47 inches between the 26th and 29th and 26 inches along on one of those days.

Further information

British Malaya, (1927), March, p. 303-304.

More on the floods at BAM 5/115-BAM 5/117.

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