Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Koh Boon Long takes us back to the entire stretch of the Bukit Timah Road in the 1950s – the Sime Darby servants’ quarters where his family lived, Kampong Chantek (Bahru) to the north, the Duchess Road School which he attended, and the floodwaters he and his friends splashed around in. This was notwithstanding the politics of the decade – though his parents worked for the British, they gave food to support the workers on strike in Bukit Timah.

00:00 Introduction

03:10 The Old Bukit Timah Road

11:17 Kampong Chantek

23:41 Kampong Chantek Bahru

27:31 Living at the Sime Darby Servants’ Quarters

36:37 Sympathy for Workers & Strikes

42:56 Duchess Road School

49:48 Race Course Village

I am Dr Loh Kah Seng, the people’s historian. In Chronicles of Old Singapore, I speak to people about their memories of Singapore before it became a global city.

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