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• SCULPTURE 46 : IRONSMITH

  ADDRESS : NO. 356 LEBUH PANTAI

  

  `Ironsmith’ on Lorong Toh Aka telling the modern youth on the striking of the iron with still can be heard along the street where the tools to be fashiered instered of machine.

  URL: SCULPTURE 46 IRONSMITH

• SCULPTURE 47 : TOO NARROW

  ADDRESS : NO. 78 LEBUH ARMENIAN

  

  The hand pulled trickshaw was the most popular former of transportation in early Penang

  URL: SCULPTURE 47 TOO NARROW

• SCULPTURE 48 : COW & FISH

  ADDRESS : NO. 17 LEBUH MELAYU

  

  Cow & Fish’ is at the corner of Lorong Ikan (Fish Lane) and Lebuh Melayu. Before the extensive land reclamation. In those days this area was much closer to the sea, as well as to the Prangin Canal, making it an ideal place to land catches of fish and squid.

  Land reclamation towards the end of the nineteenth century `pushed’ Lorong Ikan further inland, but many wholesalers of eggs, rice, dried fish and squid remain in this area, as tangible proof of the area`s earlier role.

  URL: SCULPTURE 48 COW & FISH

• SCULPTURE 49 : PILGRIMS

  ADDRESS : NO. 18 GAT LEBUH ACHEH

  

  `Pilgrims’ contains an expansive collection of well-observed caricatures, and captures the atmosphere as Haj pilgrims prepare to leave on their momentous journey. The standard metal rod construction is augmented by solid ship’s hull, while there is a wealth of detailing in the women’s sarongs, the assorted bundles and packages of luggage and the onlooker’s faces.

  In former times Lebuh Acheh, the site of this installation, was know as a `second Jeddah’ , for Haj pilgrims from all over Malay, as well as Sumatra and Thailand converged here to join ship sailing for Mecca.

  URL: SCULPTURE 49 PILGRIMS

• SCULPTURE 50 : NO PLASTIC BAG

  ADDRESS: NO. 484 LEBUH PANTAI

  

  `No Plastic Bag’ is on the wall of a shop selling the wicker baskets featured in the cartoon, and celebrates no plastic bag campaign which introduced in Penang in the year 2011.

  URL: SCULPTURE 50 NO PLASTIC BAG

• SCULPTURE 51 : WATERWAY

  ADDRESS : NO. 527 LEBUH PANTAI

  

  `Waterway’ utilises a popular theme in these metal sculptures, showing a suitor wooing his sweetheart – in this case from his boat on the Prangin Canal, once a significant waterway, used for bringing goods from the dock area to the Prangin, or Sia Boey Market in those days.

  We can see clearly that our suitor is a fruit vendor from the bananas and durians in his boat, and that thanks to watchful parent, his chances of romance are limited.

  URL: SCULPTURE 51 WATERWAY

• SCULPTURE 52 : DOUBLE ROLE

  ADDRESS : NO. 105 LEBUH PANTAI

  

  While Sikh are commonly associated with the police force, the earliest Sikh settle down in Penang were amongst the convicts transported from India and the Bengali sepoys, the first Sikh police officers not arriving until 1881. Some of these Sikh policemen also formed the fire brigade. The Central Fire Station, built ends, and completed in 1909 marks the beginning of a true or `dedicated’ fire service in Penang.

  URL: SCULPTURE 52 DOUBLE ROLE