The recreation ground is seven and a half acres in area. The recreation ground is used for football, cricket, tennis, and croquet. The total cost that has been used are $43,000 to create the lpoh Padang in 1898. During the Japanese Occupation, “Every morning at 8 o’clock all the staff of the government offices in lpoh gathered in the large football field in front of the lpoh Club and participated in a bowing and allegiance ceremony.” When Subhas Chandra Bose visited lpoh on 1 October 1943, he spoke to a large gathering here and recruited hundreds of volunteers for his Army of Free India. On 31 May 1962, the Sultan of Perak declared the formation of the Municipality of lpoh at this Padang, and the town of 200,000 spent nearly $1 million to celebrate the occasion with a mammoth parade of 120 floats and other festivities.