Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Former engineering apprentice Yan Yim Tong later married his wife Laura and they sailed together around the world on a missionary ship. He recounts the legendary apprentice Chua Chor Teck, who rose to become managing director of Keppel Shipyard. Finally, he reflects on the engineering apprenticeship as a phase in the history of technical education in Singapore, as well as his achievements in the marine industry.

00:00 Further Studies in London & Strathclyde

07:34 Marrying Laura

11:45 The Missionary Ship

23:17 Chua Chor Teck

30:47 Engineering Apprentices in Perspective

35:00 Engineering No Longer ‘Sexy’

38:32 Working Culture Onboard Ships

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Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Meeravathay P.S. relates her wondrous childhood growing up in the Nelson Road staff quarters provided by the Singapore Harbour Board and attending Silat Primary School. These were parts of old Tanjong Pagar before the port was taken over by the Port of Singapore Authority and redeveloped for container terminals.

00:00 Introduction

01:38 The Nelson Road Quarters

10:51 Silat School

14:48 Old Photos of Nelson Road

24:24 The Harbour Board Police

30:27 Leaving Nelson Road

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Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Yusof Wanjor relates the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday celebrations of the past and why the wound (luka) from the 1964 race riots will never heal. He talks about growing up in a compound house at Penaga Place at Haig Road and old Geylang Serai as a rural settlement. He wrote Islamic books and cherishes his independence.

00:00 Introduction

01:26 Prophet Muhammad’s Birthday Celebrations

07:45 Luka from the 1964 Race Riots

18:07 Penaga Place

27:31 Old Geylang Serai

33:01 Redevelopment & Moving to Queenstown

37:11 Writing, Business & Being Independent

41:33 Being in a Hadrah Group

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Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Old-timers from the north recall its former kampongs – Chong Pang, Nee Soon and Chye Kay – as well as Jalan Sembawang Kechil and the Sikh temples.

00:00 Wan Chan Peew on Chong Pang Village

04:29 R. Asokan on Chong Pang Village

10:37 Ronnie Choo on Chye Kay Village

15:39 Joel Chandran on Jalan Sembawang Kechil

26:34 R. Asokan on Nee Soon Village

46:53 Mejar Singh on the Northern Sikh Temples

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Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Koh Boon Long remembers student politics at the Chinese High School. He is Hainanese and both his parents were domestic servants for the British. His father was a cook and his mother a laundrywoman. Koh then attended the Bukit Panjang Government High School where he was of the pioneer batch in 1959. It was an integrated school but the English- and Chinese-stream students largely kept apart from each other.

00:00 Politics at the Chinese High School

09:59 Colonial Road Names

16:51 Domestic Servants for the British

25:59 Bukit Panjang Government High School

30:05 Bukit Panjang Village

40:42 Integration & Chinese-Stream Students

48:58 Mixed Results in Integration

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Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Wan Chan Peew recalls his difficulties in technical studies and why, upon graduation, he joined the Finance Department in the Naval Base. He reunited with his former school mates years later. He talks about how studying should be an enjoyable experience while it prepares students for adulthood. He also suggests building around old schools instead of demolishing them.

00:00 My Studies – A Mixed Experience

07:04 My Teachers

14:41 Schools & Cinemas in Tanjong Katong

21:27 Reunions with Former School Mates

24:28 Joining the Finance Department, Naval Base

28:08 School Motto from Leonardo da Vinci

36:25 The Philosophy of Education & Closure of Schools

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Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Long-time friends Chinniah Saraswathy & P. Rajamogan were classmates at Trafalgar School, an old primary school in Tanjong Pagar by the sea. They relate their memories of the school compounds, the staff and their classmates, and their families’ ties to the old port of Singapore. They eventually moved out, studying at Tanglin Technical & New Town Secondary Schools.

00:00 Introduction

03:55 Trafalgar School

07:34 Maps & Photos

17:39 Principal & Classmates

22:40 Old Tanjong Pagar

30:30 Tanglin Technical & New Town Secondary

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Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Relive some of the old kampongs in the east of Singapore: Bedok, Chai Chee, Kembangan, Amber, and Changi.

00:00 Yeo Hong Eng on Bedok Village

06:16 Margaret, Dennis & Jimmy Tan on Bedok Village

22:33 Yeo Hong Eng on Kampong Chai Chee

29:01 Rey Pereira on Kampong Kembangan

37:01 Alex Tan Tiong Hee on Kampong Amber

39:10 Maria Yap on Changi Village

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