Miri, Sarawak
MIRI Weather
Shell Houses On the Peninsular - 1975. Contributed by Dougal
Shell Houses sat unused and dilapidated at Lutong. Photo taken August 2014
According to local legends, in the early 1900s, as Miri was seeing a boom in population as the result of the discovery of oil, a mysterious epidemic spread, wiping out a large number of the population in what was then a very small fishing village.
