PLEASE NOTE: These are the last guided walks before a 2 week break for QingMing. Guided walks will resume on the weekend of April 19th.
Meeting Point for all guided walks is at the main gates entrance at the end of Lorong Halwa
Getting There/游览信息
If you have a facebook account, please register on the FB event page to give us an idea of numbers. If you don’t, no worries, just turn up at the gates.
Friday 21 Mar, 6.30 pm – 8.30pm : A stroll into the past with Andrew Lim
Andrew will throw a light on the lives and times of the Pioneers at the turn of 20th century Singapore in this special dusk to dark stroll. Please note, to bring your own torch lights for this guided walk.
FB registration here
Sat 22 Mar, 9am -11.30am : Morning stroll of Hills 1 & 3 with Bianca Polak and Mil Phuah
They will be sharing stories of the past, tomb designs, and simply enjoying the walk in the greenery.
FB registration here
Sun 23 Mar, 9am-11.30am : Mandarin Guided Walk : 武吉布朗华语导览
一个小岛国的城市绿洲，武吉布朗，历史与丛林交汇的世外
武吉布朗导览义工 Fabien Tee和Yik Han 将为大家介绍安葬于武吉布朗墓园的新加坡开埠先驱及达官
我们也将探讨他们当时所处的历史背景。
在亲身瞻仰这些先贤的坟墓之余，大家也有机会认识墓碑和
陆路交通管理局授权的工程公司已经准备动工挖掘与迁坟，
Facebook registration here
Meeting Point for all guided walks is at the main gates entrance at the end of Lorong Halwa
If you have a facebook account, please register on the FB event page to give us an idea of numbers. If you don’t, no worries, just turn up at the gates.
Sat 15 March 2014 : 9am -11.30am – Introduction to Bukit Brown with Zhi Hao
FB registration here
Sun 16 March 2014 : 9 pm -11.3oam – Heritage Walk with Fabian and Simone
Facebook registration here
The Brownies will shine a light on pioneers and introduce you to tomb culture.
Disclaimer: By agreeing to take this walking tour of Bukit Brown Cemetery, I understand and accept that I must be physically fit and able to do so.To the extent permissible by law, I agree to assume any and all risk of injury or bodily harm to myself and persons in my care (including child or ward)
For information on how to get to Bukit Brown : http://bukitbrown.com/main/?p=7250
For safety tips http://bukitbrown.com/main/?p=1347
Meeting Point for all guided walks is at the main gates entrance at the end of Lorong Halwa
If you have a facebook account, please register on the FB event page to give us an idea of numbers. If you don’t no worries, just turn up at the gates.
Sat 8 March 2014 : 9am -11.30am – Ancestry run with Lim Su Min
Su Min’s family connects to Seow Poh Leng, Tan Tock Seng and Lim Boon Keng. At least 9 were /are buried at Bukit Brown. Su Min considers himself a “living fossil”. His tour will visit some of his ancestors and reflect on his Peranakan heritage. His blog is http://limsumin-bukitbrowntrails.blogspot.sg/
Facebook registration here
Sat 8 March 2014 : 4 pm – 6.30 pm – Stories of the Ladies in the Straits Settlements
In honour of International Women’s Day, join Simone Lee and Bianca Polak for a leisurely afternoon stroll through Bukit Brown to listen to stories of bravery, strength, friendship, salvation, grief and achievements of the Ladies in the Straits Settlements. More information here
Facebook registration here
Sun 9 March 2014 : 9am – 11.30 – Stories behind the Carved Panels
Join Fabian Tee and Steven Toong as they unravel the stories behind the carved panels of gravestones inspired by the Chinese classics such as the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the 24 filial piety exemplars.
Facebook registration here
Disclaimer: By agreeing to take this walking tour of Bukit Brown Cemetery, I understand and accept that I must be physically fit and able to do so.To the extent permissible by law, I agree to assume any and all risk of injury or bodily harm to myself and persons in my care (including child or ward)
For information on how to get to Bukit Brown : http://bukitbrown.com/main/?p=7250
For safety tips http://bukitbrown.com/main/?p=1347
5 tours this coming weekend; 3 tours on Saturday 22nd Feb, 2 tours on Sunday 23 Feb:
Please note meeting place for all tours is at entrance to Bukit Brown on Jalan Halwa.
Please click on the facebook event links for more details and to register.
1) 22 Feb, 9am- Heritage Tour of Bukit Brown
https://www.facebook.com/events/590327791055583/
2) 22 Feb, 9am- Mandarin Tour
https://www.facebook.com/events/270624349770213/
3) 22nd Feb, 4pm- OutPost 65: Intro to Bukit Brown
https://www.facebook.com/events/245889195583876/
4) 23rd Feb, 9am- Heritage Tour of Bukit Brown
https://www.facebook.com/events/750089628342179/
5) 23rd Feb, 9am- Mandarin Tour
https://www.facebook.com/events/467034083398816/
Our weekend public tours are free, registration is recommended to provide the volunteer guides with a sense of numbers turning up.
The volunteer guides known as brownies will shine a light on the notable pioneers including revolutionaries, social reformers, bankers, war heroes etc and the historical context of their lives and times. They will also explain tomb architecture and the significance to the after life.
Disclaimer: By agreeing to take this walking tour of Bukit Brown Cemetery, I understand and accept that I must be physically fit and able to do so.To the extent permissible by law, I agree to assume any and all risk of injury or bodily harm to myself and persons in my care (including child or ward)
Useful information on how to get there http://bukitbrown.com/main/?p=7250
Visiting tips http://bukitbrown.com/main/?p=1347
Time 9 am – 12 pm
MEETING POINT: Junction of Lorong Halwa, Kheam Hock Road and Sime Road.
Feb 15, 1942 – Singapore, the “Impregnable Fortress” of the British Empire, falls to the Japanese invading forces.
Visit Bukit Brown Cemetery, site of fierce battles involving British (4th Suffolks) and Indian (Royal Deccan Horses) forces, near a village of Chinese and Malay civilians had lived.
Your guides are Claire and Ish Singh, and Peter Pak. Together they will help piece together an important day in Singapore history at the site, and recount personal stories of those buried there as well as an account of their families got caught up in the war. We welcome anyone with knowledge of the area and the battles fought there to join us and honour the memory of the war dead.
Disclaimer: By agreeing to take this walking tour of Bukit Brown Cemetery, I understand and accept that I must be physically fit and able to do so.To the extent permissible by law, I agree to assume any and all risk of injury or bodily harm to myself and persons in my care (including child or ward)
Registration:
Please click ‘Join’ on the FB event page to let us know you are coming, how many pax are turning up, or just meet us at the starting point at 9am.
“We guide rain or shine or exhumations.” – we urge you to wear sensible shoes, carry a bottle of water, put on insect repellent, and come with an open mind as we explore together. We share and talk as we walk, and learn from each other. Our walking tours are meant to be learning journeys, for both participants and guides. We believe in building communities and growing organically.
** IMPORTANT NOTE: GETTING THERE: http://bukitbrown.com/
Reading materials:
This was their last tour report, marking the day bombs first fell on Singapore: http://bukitbrown.com/
To read about the 4th Suffolks battling the Japanese who came across Hellfire Corner on the evening of Feb 14, 1942: http://bukitbrown.com/
To read about the Kheam Hock skirmish and massacre: http://bukitbrown.com/
Bukit Brown is the only Singapore site on the World Monuments Fund Watch List of threatened heritage sites. Read more here: http://bukitbrown.com/
Ish himself found a strong link to his Sikh roots through Bukit Brown: http://bukitbrown.com/
Claire’s TEDx talk touches on the war: http://www.youtube.com/
all things Bukit Brown will mark the weekend with tours and talks on both days. Keep an eye for updates.
2月9日（星期日） : 0900 – 1200
新加坡是个移民社会，不论文化习俗都是由移民所引进，但
免责声明：
“在本人同意参加武吉布朗的游览活动下，我了解及接受我
Disclaimer: By agreeing to take this walking tour of Bukit Brown Cemetery, I understand and accept that I must be physically fit and able to do so.To the extent permissible by law, I agree to assume any and all risk of injury or bodily harm to myself and persons in my care (including child or ward).
报名：
我们在周末为公众提供的导览服务是免费的
理想人数为一团三十人（平均一名导览员十五人）
请在我们的Facebook活动页面按‘参加’/
武吉布朗义工座右铭：风雨无阻，不见不散。
For information on how to get there and handy tips please visit Getting There/ 集合地点
Meeting Place for all guided walks : Gates at end of Lorong Halwa
Saturday 8 Feb 2014 : 0900- 1200
Bukit Brown is on the World Monuments Watch list 2014 . Find out what makes this a heritage site worthy of preserving. http://bukitbrown.com/
Fabian and Yik Han will shine a light on the notable pioneers including revolutionaries, social reformers, bankers, war heroes etc and the historical context of their lives and times. They will also explain tomb architecture and the significance to the after life. This tour will concentrate on notable tombs in Hill 4. There will be a NHK film team following this tour.
Disclaimer: By agreeing to take this walking tour of Bukit Brown Cemetery, I understand and accept that I must be physically fit and able to do so.To the extent permissible by law, I agree to assume any and all risk of injury or bodily harm to myself and persons in my care (including child or ward)
Registration:
Our weekend public tours are FREE …
Optimally the group size is 30 participants (15 individuals/guide).
Please click ‘Join’ on the FB event page to let us know you are coming, how many pax are turning up, or just meet us at the starting point at 9am. We meet there rain or shine.
“We guide rain, shine or exhumations”
For information on how to get there and handy tips please visit Getting There/ 集合地点
Four of the Immortals (photo Jim Wong
Meeting Point for all events at Lorong Halwa gates. We guide rain, shine or exhumations
Sat 25 Jan, 2014: 9am- 12 pm with Fabian Tee (Facebook Registration Here)
Sun 26 Jan, 2014: 9am- 12 pm with Yik Han & Zhi Hao (Facebook Registration Here)
The Brownies will shine a light on the notable pioneers including revolutionaries, social reformers, bankers, war heroes etc and the historical context of their lives and times. They will also explain tomb architecture and the significance to the after life.
Disclaimer: By agreeing to take this walking tour of Bukit Brown Cemetery, I understand and accept that I must be physically fit and able to do so.To the extent permissible by law, I agree to assume any and all risk of injury or bodily harm to myself and persons in my care (including child or ward)
General Information:
Bukit Brown is on the World Monuments Watch list 2014 . Find out what makes this a heritage site worthy of preserving. http://bukitbrown.com/
For information on how to get there and handy tips please visit Getting There/ 集合地点
(photo Ang Yik Han)
The Lim Hock Seng Family
An update:
On the morning of Sunday, June 22 ’14, Raymond Goh was on his usual weekend exploration of Bukit Brown when he came across the tomb of Ngo Kim Neo who died young at 22 years old in 1927.
Ngo Kim Neo (1927), wife of Lim Hock Seng (photo Raymond Goh)
On her tomb was inscribed, she was the wife of Lim Hock Seng (see the original story below) and she left behind 4 children, Sons: Lim Cheng Chuan and Lim Cheng Ean; Daughters: Lim Khoon Neo (Lucy) and Lim Geok Kiat.
Lim Cheng Ean’s name inscribed on tombstone (photo Raymond Goh)
What was intriguing was the name of Lim Cheng Ean which was included in the inscription as her son, as he was born in 1934, 7 years after the death of Madam Ngo Kim Neo.
We emailed the daughter of Lim Cheng Ean to inform her of the find and if she could throw some light on the matter.
This was her reply:
“I have managed to gather some brief knowledge about Ngo Kim Neo from my mother. Apparently Lim Hock Seng married 2 sisters. The first died very young without children and her grieving parents offered their second daughter, who must be Ngo Kim Neo, to him. She had 2 daughters and then sadly died giving birth to my father’s older brother, Lim Cheng Chuan, who was known in the family as the ‘Tiger Baby’ because he ‘ate his mother while being born’ (1927 was indeed the year of the tiger) . I’m not sure if this is a Chinese superstition, or just a Lim family ‘fable’. My father will be so moved to see the photo that I am posting to him today. I doubt he has ever seen the grave, or his own name credited as her son on the tombstone. His sister, Lucy (Lim Khoon Neo), was very close to him ” Gillian Mendy nee Lim, 23 June’2014
Gillian further explained that, her father’s (Lim Cheng Ean) mother was Lim Hock Seng’s third wife, Khoo Ah Tho, brought from Penang to marry him and look after the 3 young children left behind by Ngo Kim Neo.
From Gillian’s information, we gleaned that after Lim Cheng Ean was born, the tombstone of Madam Ngo was replaced to include his name to acknowledge Madam Ngo as his mother. We are not sure what customary practice led to this, or maybe it was a husband’s last loving tribute to the wife who bore him 3 children before she passed away at childbirth at the tender age of 22.
In sharing with us the close relationship her father had with his half sister, Lucy Lim Khoon Neo, Gillian attached an article on her aunt’s wedding and another line of family connection was revealed. Lucy Lim married Cheong Thiam Siew, Chairman of Frank Knight, who was the son of Cheong Hock Seng, and grandson of Cheong Koon Seng Her husband came from an illustrious and blue-chip line of property auctioneers.
And finally Gillian shared that her father who was in a fragile state of health when she first wrote to us in in January of this year, has improved and just celebrated his 80th birthday. The family put together a scrap book of his Lim ancestors, and the photos we had sent earlier of his father’s and his grandparent’s graves at Bukit Brown was the centerpiece of the book.
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All Things Bukit Brown received an email this morning (14 January) addressed to Raymond Goh. It was from Gillian Mendy (Lim) from London, asking if her grandfather’s Lim Hock Seng’s grave was affected by the highway. Her email read:
“Your Bukit Brown website is incredibly informative and interesting. We have only just discovered about the planned road works through the cemetery.
My grandfather is buried at Bukit Brown and we are trying to find out if his grave is affected by the road project. The family now live in England. If it is affected then we would come to Singapore to claim the remains.
Meeting point for all guided walks : The gates of Bukit Brown on Lorong Halwa.
Saturday 11 Jan 2014, Heritage Walk : 9am – 12pm
Yik Han and Andrew will shine a light on the notable pioneers including revolutionaries, social reformers, bankers, war heroes etc and the historical context of their lives and times. They will also explain tomb architecture and the significance to the after life.
Facebook registration here
Sunday 12 Jan 2014, Tile Appreciation : 9 am – 11.30am
Join Victor Lim in a walk through the cemetery where he will focus on the various tiles, their origins and influence.
Facebook registration here
Bukit Brown is on the World Monuments Watch list 2014 . Find out what makes this a heritage site worthy of preserving. http://bukitbrown.com/
For information on how to get there and handy tips please visit
http://bukitbrown.com/
Disclaimer: By agreeing to take this walking tour of Bukit Brown Cemetery, I understand and accept that I must be physically fit and able to do so.To the extent permissible by law, I agree to assume any and all risk of injury or bodily harm to myself and persons in my care (including child or ward)
Registration:
Our weekend public tours are FREE …
Optimally the group size is 30 participants (15 individuals/guide).
Please click ‘Join’ on the FB event page to let us know you are coming, how many pax are turning up, or just meet us at the starting point at 9am. We meet there rain or shine.
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The tour:
The Bukit Brown area is about 233 hectares in extent, bordered by Lornie Road, Thomson Road and the Pan-Island Expressway. It lies just to the south of the Central Catchment Forest, being separated from it by Lornie Road and includes Singapore’s only Chinese Municipal Cemetery. With more than 100,000 graves, Bukit Brown is also one of the largest Chinese cemeteries outside of China.
Don’t forget to bask in the peaceful surrounds, and also chat with your guides and make friends with other participants. We are amateurs and volunteers, but we are passionate and serious about what we do at Bukit Brown, and we encourage sharing of knowledge.
Here is a map of the grounds:
http://bukitbrown.com/
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Please take note:
1. We will be walking mainly on paved roads. But there are hill treks so dress appropriately, especially your footwear.
2. Wear light breathable clothing. Long pants and long sleeves if you are prone to insect bites or sunburn. Bring sunblock and natural insect repellent.
3. Wear comfortable non-slip shoes as safety is important. Walking sticks are recommended.
4. Do read up on Bukit Brown before going so you have a better understanding of the place (e.g. BukitBrown.com)
5. Do bring water, light snacks, poncho/umbrella, sunhat and waterproof your electronics.
6. Please go to the toilet before coming. There are NO facilities anywhere there or nearby.
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How to get there by MRT / Bus:
Bus services available: 52, 74, 93, 157, 165, 852, 855.
From North: Go to Marymount MRT and walk to bus-stop #53019 along Upper Thomson Road. Take Buses 52, 74, 165, 852, 855
Alight 6 stops later at bus-stop, #41149, opposite Singapore Island Country Club (SICC), Adam Road. Walk towards Sime Road in the direction of Kheam Hock Road until you see Lorong Halwa.
From South: Go to Botanic Gardens MRT and walk to bus-stop #41121 at Adam Road, in front of Singapore Bible College. Take Buses 74, 93, 157, 165, 852, 855. Alight 2 stops later at bus-stop, #41141, just before Singapore Island Country Club (SICC), Adam Road. Cross the bridge, walk towards Sime Road, follow the road until you see Lorong Halwa.
By car:
Turn in from Lornie Road, to Sime Road. Then, turn left into Lorong Halwa.
Parking space available along Lor Halwa and in the cemetery some distance after the cemetery gate.
(photo Ang Yik Han)
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