A Village Called Kg Abdullah Hukum

By the tracks of the KTMB line, sandwiched between Bangsar and Midvalley there is a forgotten village that many never notices. A collection of wooden kampung houses with a mixed population of the various races, this place seems to be anchored in place, yet at the same time out of place as the surrounding areas are developed into high rise apartments, malls and commercial areas and it is left as it was, a collection of village huts and squatter houses.

Flickr KL decided to photograph the place before it was finally demolished, which happened recently as nearly half the houses have already gone when I passed by recently. Even when we were there many of the houses were already empty and vacated. Sadly such villages will be rarer and rarer still as Kuala Lumpur marches onwards to being developed.

Will this post box ever see another letter delivered?

You know us Flickrs are crazy when a whole bunch of us dash to the train tracks to shoot even when a train could dash by over 100km an hour with little warning.

Proton Wira parked by the little stream leading to the village.

The village mosque, standing proud.

Cute little cat, lots of them there.

Towel hanging outside kampung.

Plenty of greenery sprucing up the wooden facade of the village.

Steps leading to a kampung house.

Details of a pair of door handles.

A reminder of things to come, a kampung house abandoned.

Details of the lion brand zinc roofing at a village wall.

Progress encroaches into another small idyllic part of KL, soon scene will be no more and many Malaysians will not be the wiser about it.

Mother hen and her two black chicks.

Coconut husk.

Progress encroaches into another small idyllic part of KL, soon scene will be no more and many Malaysians will not be the wiser about it.

Discarded yet still full of memories of the person who used it last.