Ipoh families, Ipoh history
Every family in Ipoh carries a piece of the city's story. Heritage Stories is our new home for them.
Our Ipoh Stories and heritage articles trace the people, streets and buildings that made Ipoh. Heritage Stories opens that work to families: you can share your own family photos and memories, and see how they connect to the history we write about.
Do you have photos of grandparents, an old shop, a school class or a street in Ipoh? We would love to hear from you. Tell us about your story below and our team will contact you to collect any photos. Every submission is checked by school staff before anything is published.
You can also tell us about your story on WhatsApp.
The loan sharks wanted a girl of 15 as payment for her father's debts. Her family slipped out the back door. More than a century later, the YLCO Gallery of Families, The Living Archive (formerly the YLCO Museum), sits in…
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He came up the Kinta River in 1892 and started in a tin-mine kitchen. A shipwreck, a fortune teller and a brother's death later, Ipoh named a road after him.
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He arrived in 1899 and started out as someone else's clerk. He ended up planning names for great-grandchildren he would never meet. One of them would carry an Oscar home to Ipoh.
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