The Hubback Tribute

LABZ : The Hubback Tribute started out as a question on who built the Kuala Lumpur Train Station (Now Kuala Lumpur Komuter Station) when I was consulting at The Heritage Station Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (formerly known as Station Hotel). Here you had a truly majestic, historical building in the heart of the city, yet it didn’t seem to exist in the eyes of the locals. This got my curiosity running; who actually designed this beautiful, unique Train Station in Malaysia?

While doing online research, I found that the information on our Buildings of National Heritage (Bangunan Warisan Malaysia) in Malaysia was  far and between. Somehow, names kept getting misspelled and it seems that not many could agree on the same thing.  Strangely I came across the daughter of A.B. Hubback, the man responsible for much of our historical buildings in Malaysia. Without further ado, I packed my bags, armed only with a meager budget and hopped on a plane bound for the United Kingdom. By the way, if you consider the exchange rate of 5.75 on the Malaysian Ringgit to Pound Sterling, it certainly wasn’t meager for me!

What I returned with, was the realization that not only did her father, A. B. Hubback contributed to our nation, but his brother T. R. Hubback also lobbied and founded our first Forest National Reserve, better known as Taman Negara today. And yet again, why is there not much information on these brothers right at home in Malaysia? I am curious. Undaunted, I had opened the doors of the Hotel which was situated within the Kuala Lumpur Train Station in an effort to try and garner some awareness about the building and for people to partake in Malaysia’s history. The effort resulted in our blog at the domain prewedding.info with some success. Surprisingly, we were also a finalist under The Most Popular Hotel in Asia Award 2009 by HotelClub. Incredulous!

For more information on The Hubback Brothers Tribute, please visit the online site @ http://www.thehubbacks.org or join our discoveries on Facebook as well! The sites are maintained and updated by The Lab Ratz [bigratz] on blogger for the simple reason that if something should happen, this blog should be there to be shared by all!