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The Eastern & Oriental Hotel (popularly known as the E. & O.) is a colonial-style hotel that was established in 1885 by the Sarkies Brothers. The Eastern Hotel was founded by the brothers in 1884. Within one year, the hotel had prospered and gained so much popularity that the brothers established another hotel, the Oriental Hotel in 1885, leading to a merger of both brands into the Eastern & Oriental Hotel in 1889. The success of the hotels led the brothers to establish sister hotels, the Raffles Hotel in Singapore in 1887, and the Strand Hotel in Rangoon, Burma in 1901. Under the management of the brothers the E & O hotel would receive several major expansion works, culminating to the completion of the present hotel complex in 1929.

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The Jubilee Clock Tower, is a Moorish-style clock tower at the junction of Lebuh Light (Light Street) and Lebuh Pantai (Beach Street). Built to commemorate Queen Victoria's 1897 Diamond Jubilee, the tower is sixty feet tall, one foot for each year of Victoria's reign. A corner of the wall surrounding Fort Cornwallis can be seen behind the tower.

The clock tower is slightly tilted, a result of Allied (or Japanese) bombing during the WW2.

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