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ED Bid Properties Sdn Bhd is a
registered estate agency located at Pulau Pinang.
The agency has a strong presence in Pulau Pinang area with a team of
professionally qualified and licensed negotiators, each having an
extensive knowledge of the major residential and commercial areas of
Pulau Pinang and surrounding districts.
Jalan Gurdwara, Pulau
Pinang
Brick
Kiln Road (Malay: Jalan Gurdwara; Penang Hokkien: Hong3 Chia3 Lor33
) is a road in George Town outside the heritage zone. Its original
name and present-day character is reflective of how much developed
George Town as a whole had become.
Brick Kiln Road was built for an industrial and working-class
neighborhood when George Town began to expand beyond the Prangin
Canal. In the earlier days, Brick Kiln Road was just a rural road
leading south from Penang Road, at an angle from Dato Kramat Road. A
brick kiln that existed in the area in the second half of the 19th
century gave this road its name.
Brick Kiln Road marks the inland side of the nine (initially seven)
parallel roads that were aligned with the Prangin Canal, and was
given the Hokkien names of Koay Kangnga Thau Tiau Lor (first road
after the river), which became Magazine Road, followed by the
second, third roads, and so forth, until Sandilands Street makes up
the ninth.
The
Sikh community established a settlement here in the 1880s. They were
brought to Penang by Captain Speedy, who had hired them to police
the volatile tin mining areas of Larut. There was a former police
barracks for the Sikhs along Brick Kiln Road. The land was given to
the Sikh community by the Resident Councillor of Penang in 1897
(probably Charles Walter Sneyd-Kynnersley) for them to build their
temple.
As it
was the year of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee, the temple became
known as the Diamond Jubilee Sikh Gurdwara or Gurdwara Sahib Khalsa
Dharmak Jatha. Today, the road takes its official name after the
gurdwara.
Sources: http://www.penang-traveltips.com/brick-kiln-road.htm
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