Kellie Castle

KELLIES CASTLE Malaysia is multi-ethnic country which has passed by dint of a long history of colonisation by Europeans. Apart from its noble-minded beauty contactn in the sprawling landscape, historical sightseeing also forms a main part of Malaysian tourism. One of the important historical billets in Malaysia was Kellies Castle. (Fairul Halim) Kellies Castle is the most important attraction in Batu Gajah, Perak. Located approximately 30 kilometers from Ipoh is the historical legacy of a coarse story behind its construction. The landlord, William Kellie metalworker was born on 1 mack 1870 at the Moray Firth, Dallas, Scotland.In the first Mac 1890 at the sequence 20, he arrived to Tanah Melayu . (Fazlina & Khatijah) Late William Kellie Smith ( 1870 1926) Photo courtesy of Lamography. com He bounced around several(prenominal) business opportunities finding some success but it wasnt until he meets Alma baker that he struck gold. Baker obtained several government projects to b uild roads in South Perak. Their partnership in these projects led to quite a bit of profits. Enough to purchase a 900 acre piece of land for his base hit tree plantation and homely estate named Kinta Kellas. (Fazlina)Kellies Castle is a symbol of love like the Taj Mahal in Agra, India. In 1903, he returned to Scotland to get hitched with his sweetheart Agnes. He brought her back to his home in Tanah Melayu and later that year the couple was blessed with a daughter named Helen. William Smith desperately treasured a son and heir to take over his empire. In 1915 their randomness child, a boy named Anthony, was born and this may have been the impetus to instigate construction of a major extension to their stately home. (Hafizuddin & Khairi) Plans were drawn up and craftsmen merchandise from India to begin construction.Built with materials such as st superstar marble was imported from India, while ceramic tile imported from Italy. Bricks were used kind of apricot tree made in T anah Melayu itself. The wall of the castle was built with a very unique method, using a mixture of white duck egg, sand, dark-brown sugar and honey. It was to take 10 years to build Kellies Castle. (Fairul Halim) However, it ran in to one major set back. Many of the workers contracted the Spanish Flu and died in the early 1920s. Killing many of the workers in the Kellas Estate . Another workers constructing Smiths dream castle also became victims of the flu.World War I slowed the surgical procedure even more. He had already spent a fortune on his house, lost a lot of money because of this. (Khairi) In 1926 William Kellie Smith and his daughter, visited Britain to see his wife and son and then proceeded to Lisbon, Portugal from where he was ordering a elevate to install in the Castle, which would have been the first elevator in Tanah Melayu. alas while in Portugal, William was attacked pneumococcal disease are chronic, he in the end died in Lisbon on 11 December 1926 at the age of 56 years.He was buried there. (Khadijah) After the death of her husband, Agnes later packed up and left Tanah Melayu with her children back to Scotland. She sold the castle to a British partnership called Harrisons and Crossfield. In the end, Kellies Castle was never completed. Fortunately the Malaysian Government, realising its tourism potential and heritage value, have since cleared the creepers and trees growing on the site and have opened it as a tourist attraction. (Hafizuddin) -548 words-