Living in George Town: Even Deep Roots Eventually Move
By Julia Tan
September 2018 FEATURE
There may be an abundance of media reports on evictions and “Disney-apocalypse” in George Town, but the reality is actually much less dramatic.30, Stewart Lane. The house has been in the family since 1954, or thereabouts. It was built much earlier of course – Stewart Lane being part of an old quarter – and was purchased by my great-grandfather to house his multiplying progeny a year after my father was born. (He was born on Leith Street, at the school...
Julia Tan
went to primary and secondary school at Convent Pulau Tikus before continuing sixth form at St. Xavier’s Institution; any other school was out of the question. She misses the fried rice at the school canteen, and laments the passing of the wan tan mee lady.
