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Che Mahmud MCS ADO Sulaiman.

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A Group outside the Pangulas House at Bota.

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Where we stopped for cool drink, our bicycles on the left.

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The start from Parit Sheppard, Roya Kachil Sulans, Raji Amanshah, Roya Kamared Bahin

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137 x 79 mm. Showing uncleared land at the site of the proposed dam for the Perak River Hydro-Electric scheme, the agreement for which was signed in December 1925. For details of the scheme, see Barlow (1926, p. 20-22).

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137 x 79 mm. Showing uncleared jungle on the west bank, with two Malay youths standing in the foreground. See preceding print. Photograph probably by Sir Montague Barlow.

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99 x 49 mm. As captioned with a Malay house in the foreground.

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55 x 62 mm. As captioned, with four Malays standing on the path in the foreground.

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105 x 45 mm. Showing the pontoon raft car ferry crossing the Perak River.

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Undated.

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150 x 113 mm.

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207 x 90 mm. Showing a pontoon bridge across the Perak River at Enggor.

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296 x 91 mm. View of the Victoria Railway Bridge over the Perak River at Enggor.

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105 x 43 mm. As captioned.

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205 x 115 mm.

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80 x 137 mm. Showing an atap house on the bank of the Perak River, with a small bathing house on stilts extending out into the river itself. A note on the reverse remarks that this bathing hut is similar to the one from which J.W.W. Birch was killed.

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A description of the different river craft used for pleasure boating and transportation in Malaya, with accounts of Churchill's most notable rafting experiences (2 copies, 40 sheets).

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195 x 59 mm. Showing a group of Chinese children standing on a hillside beside the Perak River.

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122 x 71 mm. Crossing the Perak near Kuala Kangsar, Lindsay Vears on right. Showing the four elephants and their passengers crossing the Perak River. The Sultan of Perak, Sir Iskander Shah is seated on the elephant at the left, Sir Laurence and Lady Guillemard on the next elephant, an unidentified couple on the third and Lindsay Vears (no further information) on the fourth. Guillemard was Governor of the Straits Settlements 1919-1927.

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202 x 149 mm. View of Perak River waterfront at Telok Anson, taken from Mills Road.

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80 x 136 mm. Showing the granite obelisk raised in memory of James Wheeler Woodford Birch, first British Resident in Perak, who was murdered in 1875. The inscription, not legible here, reads: 'Here at the fort of Datok Maharaja Lela the Honourable J.W. Birch, First British Resident of Perak, was killed in the performance of his duty on 2nd November 1875'.

Scope and Contents 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...

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149 x 112 mm. A view looking out over the Perak River showing men in canoees with nets. The sap of the root of the creeping plant tuba (dalbergia) is extracted by maceration in water and this, when thrown into the river brings the fish to the surface for netting.

Scope and Contents 285 x 210 mm (mounted on card). A view showing the Victoria Bridge, an iron girder construction mounted on stone piles, on the Ipoh-Taiping line and Enggor. The Perak River at this point is over 1000 feet wide and subject to severe flooding; original designs had allowed for a rail level 34 feet above the normal water line, but this was later changed to 40, a valuable decision in the light of the 1926 floods which brought the water level up to the bottom booms of the bridge. Preliminary...

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102 x 58 mm. As described, with an unidentified woman standing in the foreground.