Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Ronnie Choo recounts growing up in various places in and outside the Singapore Naval Base in Sembawang. His father was a local chargeman in the base and the breadwinner of two large families. So Ronnie started working at a young age, first as an apprentice to be an engine fitter at the Dockyard Training College before leaving the base to sail with Straits Steamship and then work in several land-based jobs.

00:00 Introduction

01:02 Jalan Kedai, Kowloon Road & Chye Kay Village

06:11 My Father, a Local Chargeman

13:19 Becoming an Engine Fitter Apprentice

21:04 Filing a Round Bar into a Square One

32:30 Sailing with Straits Steamship

42:59 Shipyards & Shell

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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