This week, All Things Bukit Brown and the Nature Society were proud to guide 480 students from Raffles Girls’ School to Bukit Brown for their Learning Journey. Alumni Claire Leow, founder-editor of atBB, had learnt of their Learning Journey programme and offered to find volunteer guides, called Brownies, to help give depth to their learning. As it happened over 4 days this week on week days, it was no mean feat to get enough guides to lead. But the passion and [...]
Not one but three tours this Sunday March 10! One, the Battlefield Tour by Jon Cooper, is already booked out. Join the English or Mandarin heritage tours and see what the fuss is about. Enjoy the Heritage, Habitat and History of Bukit Brown. Heritage Tour 9am to 11.30am https://www.facebook.com/events/395746103857675/?context=create# Mandarin Tour 9am to 12.30pm https://www.facebook.com/events/487243638004613/?ref=2 Come visit Bukit Brown Heritage Park and see for yourself why this place is currently ranked among the top ten attractions of Singapore [...]
DON’T MISS THIS!! Peter Pak will guide you on this beautiful route, not often offered. Route: We will cover stories of kidnapping, a father lost at sea, a sinking ship hit by Japanese bombs, betrayal, loyalty, a hero and a hero forgotten.Route we will be covering is Hill 4 and Hill 1. Tour runs from 9 am to noon. Meeting Place: Under the large and beautiful, and possibly endangered, rain tree, at the Roundabout. After the main gate, go [...]
On Feb 15, 1942, Singapore fell just one week after Japanese forces landed. As they headed down south, fierce battles were fought in the Adam Park area and the fighting extended to Bukit Brown, then known as Cemetery Hill. “On the evening of 14th February 1942, the rolling hills of the Bukit Brown Cemetery were suddenly engulfed in a barrage of flame and fire. It appeared like scene from Dante’s ‘Inferno’. ” Jon Cooper, the battlefield archaeologist behind The [...]
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