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Chronicles of Old Singapore | Maria Yap – Old Changi Village Was Bustling Ep1
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Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Maria Yap recalls her tough but memorable childhood growing up in Old Changi Village before the British vacated RAF Changi. Her father was a cobbler in the village and her mother a washerwoman in the airbase.
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00:00 Introduction
02:40 Moving to Changi Village
08:32 Father’s Shoe Shop
15:13 Our House at Jalan Bekukong
22:55 Mother was a Washerwoman
28:36 Childhood Friends
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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