Jubilee Clock Tower

Jubilee Clock Tower

The Jubilee Clock Tower, in George Town, Penang is a Moorish-style clocktower at the junction of Lebuh Light and Lebuh Pantai and is sixty feet tall, one foot for each year of Victoria's reign. A corner of the wall surrounding Fort Cornwallis appears behind the tower, which was built to commemorate Queen Victoria's 1897 Jubilee. cite web|title="Jubilee Clock Tower"|work=Test.com|url=http://www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/penang/01.html|accessdate=2007-04-03]

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