KUALA LUMPUR: Demolition work on part of the Pudu Jail wall finally began Monday night when an excavator started tearing down the ancient structure.
The tearing down of the wall began from inside the prison area at about 10.20pm and onlookers who had gathered started taking photographs to capture the historic moment.
A City Hall worker said the demolition would end on Thursday.
Plastic barriers will be put up along the demolition site while Jalan Pudu would be closed from 10pm until 5am during the four days.
The 4.5m high wall had once set a record for the longest mural in the world (384m). It is being torn down to make way for a road-widening project, including the construction of an underpass.
The prison stopped operating in 1996 when the building could no longer cater to the high volume of up to 6,550 people at a time since 1985 and prisoners were subsequently shifted to the Sungai Buloh Prison, 36km from here.
By The Star.
Its really shame full that the Malaysia Government dont really see this place as a historic place. This would be a huge tourism attraction in future. Well even it would be HUGE now if they refurbish and maintain the place.
It have been there for more the one century old and younger generation should actually get to know about the history. Many story and history was actually build behind those walls and now its all gone. Imagine a huge empty land where once famous criminals was in, where they spend most of their life.
Tearing it down will mean forgetting our heritage and history.Don't you think this is part of Kuala Lumpur’s history and should be preserved.Citing the examples of Berlin Wall and also Alcatraz where an imposing prison was once located, he said the former had parts of its wall remaining, while the island was now a famous tourist spot.
Why cant Malaysia take them as an example?? Pudu jail is worth preserving as there are not many 115-year-old buildings around.The 270m-long mural, depicting a tropical landscape, was painted by three prisoners in 1983, who spent more than 1,000 hours to complete it. Don't you think they should actually keep this as something special??
With all this torn down, i can assure you younger generation wont even have a clue when the older generation bring up Pudu Jail.
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