Masjid Jamek
Mahkamah (court)
Anyone for cricket ? Looks like something from Old Blighty ? Once known as the Royal Selangor Club (1884) - seen across the Padang- now called the Dataran Merdeka (Independence Square). According to historian J.M. Gullick in 'The Story of Kuala Lumpur (1857-1939), published in 1983':-"Everybody" belonged to the Selangor Club founded in 1884. In 1892 it had 140 members including some who were absent from Selangor. Before there was a club everybody met everybody at Maynards, which was the only European shop in Kuala Lumpur . . . In theory Maynards was a phamaceutical chemist but it also sold liquor and a wide range of other things. Ladies went shopping in the confidencce of meeting friends and lingering to chat. The Selangor Club met a need for a social center as such. . . . It was originally housed in a "little plank building with an atap roof" to serve as a cricket as well as a social club.
To this day one of the favourite disputes among old hands is over the origin of the name "the Spotted Dog" by which the Selangor Club is always known. The most creditable explanation is that it began with a remark that "frequenters of the Spotted Dog pub must accept the company as they find it."
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