This elegant three-story corner building from 1907 originally housed the Medical Hall established by Dr. R.M. Connolly, then Oldfields Dispensaries Ltd. and presently The George Town Dispensary. An Irish man trained at Trinity College, Dr. Connolly was recruited to Malaya on government service. He then went into private practice, became an editor of the Times of Malaya and founded the Perak Anti-Opium Society. The miner Chung Thye Pin (1879-1935), a Tseng Lung Hakka and the son of Kapitan Chung Keng Kooi, the Hai San chief during the Larut tin wars. Chung Thye Pin J.P. was a Federal Councillor, Perak State Councillor, member of the Perak Chinese Advisory Board, and the last Kapitan China of Perak. In 1925, he cofounded the first Chinese limited liability company, the Toh Allang Chinese Tin Company in Perak and printed his own money for use in his mines. He was a keen motorist and owner of prize-winning racehorses. The three-story bank building next door was formerly the Whiteways department store. At No. 15 Station Road was H. Simoyama’s Dental Office & Satow Surgeon Dentist. Across the road (on the left side of the photo above) were the premises of the Japanese photographer I. Itoh, a “high-class photographer and frame maker,” at No. 101-103 Belfield Street. T. Tasaka’s Hairdressing Saloon was at No. 97.