Preliminary Report - Lebuh Chulia History
Lebuh Chulia’s History
-There were four original four streets of Georgetown and they were beach light street,pitt street and chulia street.
-formerly Chulia street, was first laid out between Lebuh Pantai and Jalan Masjid Kapitan Keling during Francis Light’s time.
-originally called “Malabar Street” and was changed to “Chulier Street” in Popham’s 1798 map By 1803.
-the stree had extended to the present junction of Lebuh Leith and Jalan Penang(the eastern half until Love Lane) named Chulier Street and the western half named Chulier Road.
-was designated for the south indian population of early Penang (the south indian were called Chulier as the Coromandel coast).
-was formerly swampy and drainage problems continued to plague the area until the turn of this century.
-there are also a number of housing clusters accessed only by unnamed alleys.
-along lebuh chulia today one finds the greatest diversity economic activities,related to tourism and traditional occupations.
-many buildings along lebuh chulia were converted hotels in early 20th century.
-today, lebuh chulia has many hardware shops and trades ; metalsmiths,carpenters,rattan furniture,picture-farmers.
-connects the homogenous historic shophouse streetscape of lorong love,lorong chulia,lebuh carnavon,jalan pintal tali and lebuh cintra.
-Starting from Beach Street, the buildings on Chulia Street carry odd-number addresses if they are on the left side of the street, and even-number addresses if they are on the right.
-Rapid Penang Bus 11, 101, 104, 201, 202, 203, 204, 301 and 302 pass through Chulia Street.
Some hotel and guesthouses :
-banana guest house. -newasakin rumah tumpangan
-blue diamond hotel. -olive spring hotel
-Crystal guesthouse -pin seng hotel
-Day and night backpackers -stardust guesthouse
-e&A budget hotel -swiss hotel
-eastern hotel -tourist guesthouse
-hang chow hotel
-hotel hong ping
-island city hotel
-Jims place
Sights along
-There were four original four streets of Georgetown and they were beach light street,pitt street and chulia street.
-formerly Chulia street, was first laid out between Lebuh Pantai and Jalan Masjid Kapitan Keling during Francis Light’s time.
-originally called “Malabar Street” and was changed to “Chulier Street” in Popham’s 1798 map By 1803.
-the stree had extended to the present junction of Lebuh Leith and Jalan Penang(the eastern half until Love Lane) named Chulier Street and the western half named Chulier Road.
-was designated for the south indian population of early Penang (the south indian were called Chulier as the Coromandel coast).
-was formerly swampy and drainage problems continued to plague the area until the turn of this century.
-there are also a number of housing clusters accessed only by unnamed alleys.
-along lebuh chulia today one finds the greatest diversity economic activities,related to tourism and traditional occupations.
-many buildings along lebuh chulia were converted hotels in early 20th century.
-today, lebuh chulia has many hardware shops and trades ; metalsmiths,carpenters,rattan furniture,picture-farmers.
-connects the homogenous historic shophouse streetscape of lorong love,lorong chulia,lebuh carnavon,jalan pintal tali and lebuh cintra.
-Starting from Beach Street, the buildings on Chulia Street carry odd-number addresses if they are on the left side of the street, and even-number addresses if they are on the right.
-Rapid Penang Bus 11, 101, 104, 201, 202, 203, 204, 301 and 302 pass through Chulia Street.
Some hotel and guesthouses :
-banana guest house. -newasakin rumah tumpangan
-blue diamond hotel. -olive spring hotel
-Crystal guesthouse -pin seng hotel
-Day and night backpackers -stardust guesthouse
-e&A budget hotel -swiss hotel
-eastern hotel -tourist guesthouse
-hang chow hotel
-hotel hong ping
-island city hotel
-Jims place
Sights along