264 x 207 mm (mounted on card). A view looking across Java Street towards the verandahed commercial premises of Chinese traders. Beyond these substantial stone buildings with tiled roofs are more modest atap houses. These more modern buildings are probably seen here soon after completion: one of the first orders promulgated by Swettenham on his arrival as Resident in 1882 was that all houses should be rebuilt with corrugated iron roofs. This order never came into effect, but in 1884 a rule was made requiring all property owners to rebuild in brick or wattle with tiled roofs. At the end of 1884 only four houses in Kuala Lumpur had tiled roofs, although a further two hundred were built in the following years (Gullick, 1955, p. 39-40). This makes it likely that the photograph is a little later than the date suggested by Swettenham. Java Street runs north-west-south-east in the northern section of the town and crossed the Klang River just north of the Malay Cemetery. Java Street was later renamed Mountbatten Road.