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

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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