Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Albert Winsemius was Singapore’s most successful foreign expert, advising the government on economic policy for twenty years. I look at his first contribution to Singapore in 1960-61, explaining why he succeeded when so many experts failed. His main then was to convince the government that Singapore could pivot from entrepot trade to secondary industry against a backdrop of political, economic and social troubles.

Part 1 | https://youtu.be/hE4GDHUNWMM

Part 2 | https://youtu.be/s65-wpq0dfo

00:00 Introduction

01:44 More Than a Lane?

05:21 Failure of Foreign Experts

07:28 Questions of Strategy & Markets

14:17 Human & Political Dimensions

20:43 Winsemius was No. 11

25:24 Singapore’s Self-Belief

30:20 Private Vs. State Capital

33:43 Winsemius’ Economic Influence

34:35 The Common Market

35:15 Independence & Pullout

Loh Kah Seng, ‘Albert Winsemius and the Transnational Origins of High Modernist Governance in Singapore’, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-13-1556-5_4

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Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Pamela Sandanasamy comes onto the podcast as our youngest guest yet and with a strong love for conserving the past. She takes us through numerous old photos of the Naval Base where her father Sandanasamy – an avid photographer – studied, lived and worked.

Part 1 | https://youtu.be/IV5Z1_YmBK4

Part 2 | https://youtu.be/tInleB6qsl0

00:00 Introduction

05:33 Conserve Our Heritage

11:45 Grandparents in Singapore

19:20 Sandanasamy & Family in Photos

24:39 Work & Retraining?

31:08 Father’s Siblings

37:41 Schooldays

45:56 At Work

51:51 Love for Photography

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欢迎来到旧新加坡记事录。郭绍愷讲述了新加坡工艺学院中文协会的成立过程，以及其成员在 60 年代和 70 年代对社会问题的浓厚兴趣。

Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Quek Siow Kai recounts how the Singapore Polytechnic Chinese Language Society was set up and how its members were keenly interested in social issues in the 1960s and 1970s.

第一集 Part 1 | https://youtu.be/R3bFzaTkeX0

第二集 Part 2 | https://youtu.be/eUA9zPBVqH8

00:00 互相帮助英语 Helping One Another with English

04:44 社团注册 Registering the Society

09:17 杜进才 Toh Chin Chye

11:31 学生与新加坡的工业化 Students & Singapore’s Industrialisation

15:30 中文协会角色的演变 Evolving Role of CLS

18:50 学生的社会责任 Students’ Social Responsibility

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Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Upon graduation, Leng Ng Tai relates his working experience for two major employers in Singapore: at the Motor Vehicle Workshop with its fleet of 800 in the Naval Base, and after the British withdrawal in the late 1960s, the oil multinational Shell, Singapore’s first pioneer status company on Pulau Bukom. Among his 51 successful years with Shell, he was a safety advisor, persuading both management and contractors to bring the yearly number of deaths from workplace accidents to nil.

Part 1 | https://youtu.be/GDGLS2sZuJw

Part 2 | https://youtu.be/P8ayDbs_HuA

Part 3 | https://youtu.be/xtr_BgVOBuc

00:00 The Motor Vehicle Workshop

06:14 Bosses & Colleagues at the Naval Dockyard

15:19 British Pullout

20:07 Joining Shell

27:00 Safety Adviser

35:27 Carrot & Stick with the Contractors

41:31 51 Years with Shell

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Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Tong Siew Yin takes us back to old shops, businesses and hawkers of Orchard Road in the 1950s and 1960s before the shopping malls arrived.

Ep1 | https://youtu.be/YD_B87867Gc

Ep2 | https://youtu.be/fihcnpDpgkk

00:00 Emerald Hill

05:28 Somerset Staff Quarters

10:27 Hawkers at Emerald Hill

15:30 Fosters & Magnolia Snack Bar

17:13 Cold Storage

22:22 Tailors & Furriers

23:55 Fitzpatrick’s

27:41 Cuppage & Koek Roads

30:00 The Istana

33:39 198 Orchard Road Shophouse

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Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Gloria Kwok spent several years during her primary school holidays living with her grandmother Sum Yin Yong at Sago Lane in Chinatown in the 1960s. This was the infamous street of the dead, which the Cantonese called ‘sei yan kai’. As Gloria recalls, her grandmother worked as a caretaker in the death house called Fook Sau and both of them lived on the second floor of the shophouse.

Part 1 | https://youtu.be/PSDWCwFQ5-g

Part 2 | https://youtu.be/-KoBOxSM8-0

00:00 Introduction

01:28 School Holidays at Sago Lane

04:38 My Granny

12:09 From Serangoon Gardens to Sei Yan Kai

16:33 Onto the Street

21:32 The Shophouse

24:23 Love for the Family

29:56 Shophouse First Floor

32:14 Second Floor

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欢迎来到旧新加坡记事录。何乃强医生回忆起日治时期家人逃往波东巴西，并藏匿贵重物品，以及他的学业如何受到影响。他谈到战争给新加坡带来的三个教训。

Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Dr Ho Nai Kiong recalls fleeing to Potong Pasir with his family during the Japanese Occupation, hiding their valuables and how his studies were affected. He talks about the three lessons of the war for Singapore.

第一集 Ep1 | https://youtu.be/wS_Z7PdOfCA

第二集 Ep2 | https://youtu.be/UgfuDoarcmY

00:00 肃清 Sook Ching

01:04 逃难到波东巴西 Fleeing to Potong Pasir

07:11 粮食管制 Food Rationing

09:50 我的学业 My Studies

13:21 日本投降 Japanese Surrender

17:46 养正学校 Yeung Ching School

23:05 碰到日军 Encounters with Japanese Soldiers

25:02 日治的教训 Lessons of the Japanese Occupation

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欢迎来到旧新加坡记事录。何乃强医生讲述，日本轰炸新加坡时，第一枚炸弹落在牛车水。他讨论了肃清行动以及牛车水新加坡的一些个人叙述。

Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Dr Ho Nai Kiong relates that when the Japanese bombed Singapore, the first bomb fell in Chinatown. He discusses the Sook Ching operation and several personal accounts of the Japanese Occupation of Singapore.

第一集 Ep1 | https://youtu.be/wS_Z7PdOfCA

第二集 Ep2 | https://youtu.be/UgfuDoarcmY

00:00 介绍 Introduction

01:02 今天的冲突 Conflicts Today

05:13 第一枚炸弹 First Bomb on Chinatown

15:36 静方女校 Jing Fang Girls’ School

18:09 胸墙 Parapets

19:29 卢鹤龄《回首人生路》 Lo Hock Ling, My Life’s Journey

25:32 司徒醒铃《一个新加坡少女的战争日记》 A Young Girl’s Wartime Diary

29:19 肃清 Sook Ching

33:02林碧霞《翻译员的女儿》 Teresa Lim Seaward, The Interpreter’s Daughter

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Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Stephen Dobbs and I trace the redevelopment of the river for tourism and entertainment in the early 1990s. We reflect on the efforts to conserve the rich heritage of the river. Although the façade of the old shophouses was retained, the lightermen, and the pre-existing socio-economic life generally, were removed from the river, creating a very different commercial area.

Part 1 | https://youtu.be/UBEsiwawVl4

Part 2 | https://youtu.be/FYFXGWMU1AE

Part 3 | https://youtu.be/NfTtBicx2us

00:00 A New Vision for the River

04:29 Three New Quays

08:17 Heritage & Tourism

10:12 Relocation of the Lighters

18:22 Fates of the Lightermen

21:41 Impact on the People

26:33 A Living River

The Singapore River: A Social History, 1819-2002

https://nuspress.nus.edu.sg/products/the-singapore-river

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Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Historian Marc Rerceretnam relates how he uncovered an unknown history of intermarriages in colonial Singapore in the 19th and early 20th centuries. These took place among the Roman Catholics, who were made up of diverse subgroups of Peranakans, Teochews and Eurasians who had converted to the religion. Many of them had revolted against the powerful kongsi (clan/brotherhood) system in the 19th century.

Part 1 | https://youtu.be/ssEaCj88qnk

Part 2 | https://youtu.be/k0PDhV-Ivik

00:00 Introduction

05:14 Roman Catholics in Singapore

12:07 Peranakans, Teochews, Eurasians

20:31 Rebels Against Kongsis

30:38 The Gambier Industry

34:56 Traditional Culture

39:45 Intermarriages

48:04 Racial Ideologies

Marc Sebastian Rerceretnam, A History of Immigrant Roman Catholics and Converts in Early Singapore 1832-1945 (2012).

https://www.amazon.sg/Immigrant-Catholics-Converts-Singapore-1832-1945/dp/0645236403

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