Burial ground of the pioneers of Singapore
Along Neil Road facing Singapore General Hospital, lies a row of houses that tell the architecture, history and heritage of an era gone by. One of these houses has been restored by a donation by...
A malay metaphor tak kenal maka tak sayang (not knowing without loving it) describes well a person who cannot understand or appreciate dondang sayang - he probably does not know anything about it...
It must have been 37 years ago, around 1975. A friend of mine was browsing at an antique store when he came across an old ancestral tablet. As it has a nice dragon carving, he managed to take a...
I am Lim Su Min, a retired doctor and grandfather to 5 children. I have identified 7 direct ancestors buried at Bukit Brown going back 5 generations for me, 7 generations for my grandchildren. My ancestors...
This year is the 70th year anniversary for the fall of Singapore. Do you know Bukit Brown was once a war cemetery? Thousands of bodies were dumped into communal trenches dug up in the...
ST 15 May 1937 Leong Seng Ngian, passed away on 10 May 1937 at the age of 69. He was at one time a racehorse owner besides being the proprietor of a large goldsmith's business established by his late...
Visitors to Blk 4 of Bukit Brown Heritage Park would have noticed a pair of fairly large tombs. If you will to ask the tombkeeper there, he would say that these pair of tombs were well visited in...
It was the year 1939 in March. A famous Chinese painter Xu Bei Hong has just came from China to the Victoria Memorial Hall to exhibit his paintings for the anti-Japanese resistance efforts. At that time, a local banker purchased many of Xu Bei Hong's painting for helping out in the war chest. The local banker was Tan Ean Kiam who was born in a fishing village in Tong Ann district, Fukien province in 1881. He came to Singapore in 1899 and worked as a labourer, carting water from public taps to premises...
This is a tribute to the matriarch of the Peranakan household, who always managed the household. Here you can see the matriarch of the Lim Nee Soon household Picture taken from...
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