Dateline : 26 Tuesday 7-pm – 9.30pm The Ngee Ann Kongsi auditorium of the sprawled out spanking new campus of University Town, NUS fills up. The event: “Moving House” jointly organised by NUS Museum and All Things Bukit Brown. The highlight: a timely resurrection of an award winning documentary by film maker Tan Pin Pin. “Moving House” made in 2001 which followed the Chew family , one of 55,000 Singapore families forced to relocate the remains of their relatives […]
by Gan Su-lin and Catherine Lim The tomb staked 1888 or rather its companion is used as an illustration in the LTA sign boards at Bukit Brown to explain to the public how to look out for and identify whether an ancestor could be affected by the 8 lane highway that is going to be built through Bukit Brown. The resident of Tomb 1888 was exhumed on Thursday 21 June 2012 by his descendant, a great grandson who has requested […]
“Moving House” Tuesday 26th June 7 pm – 9 pm University Town Auditorium in Kent Ridge NUS Museum and All Things Bukit Brown presents “Moving House” – a screening, a presentation and a Q and A session on the next significant development for the planned 8 lane highway that will cut through the cemetery – Exhumation. The documentation team led by Dr Hui Yew Foong undertook its first documentation of a private exhumation of a staked tomb affected by […]
Date: 9 June Saturday Time: 9am to 11.30 am Meeting Place: At the entrance gates of Bukit Brown at Lorong Halwa . We will be covering Hill 2 and 5 – the heavily staked area of the cemetery affected by the 8 lane highway and which also cuts through the most beautiful valley in Bukit Brown…. PLUS a bonus of Oon Chim Neo – the largest single occupant tomb, and in the same vicinity the recently exhumed tomb of […]
