I am asking the fellow photographers to consider recording the soon to vanish Bukit Brown.
Bukit Brown is also known as Kopi hill, it is also alleged the most haunted place in Singapore.
There are many historical tomb stones, which are worth keeping in MF or LF.
I will be out of Singapore but will be monitoring this.
I propose a MF outing with a few locations pinpointed.
Singapore is changing too fast. Recently the Tanjiong Pagar Station went into history.
I have burned a good number of 120. Now it is Bukit Brown turn.
咖啡山坟场建新道路 陈金钟等先贤古墓或受影响
http://www.zaobao.com.sg/sp/sp110914_013.shtml
不过，咖啡山坟地占地86公顷，共有约10万个墓碑，因此墓主的记录工作将是一个浩大工程，须要不少时间及人力。
新道路将穿越咖啡山坟场，估计有5000个坟墓将在明年第四季被挖掘。陆交局届时将公开受影响坟墓的详情，让公众认领先人遗骨。
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Bukit brown#page=4
Asia Paranormal Investigators
http://www.spi.com.sg/haunted/ghoulish_trial/main04.htm
George Henry Brown arrived from Calcutta via Penang about 1840. He bought the area and called it Mount Pleasant. Brown was a ship owner in Singapore trading to China and Japan. He was a strong supporter of the Presbyterian Church where he played the organ which he had bought from the old London Mission Chapel at the junction of North Bridge and Bras Basah roads.
The organ later went to the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd. The land was bought by Ong Kew Ho and the Hokkien Huay Kuan who gave it to the She Ong Kongsi. After much resistance from the kongsi, the government acquired the land in 1919 and opened it as a public burial ground which was managed by a committee led by Tan Kheam Hock and See Tiong Wah, compradore of the Hongkong Bank, on 1 Jan 1922. Another commonly known name especially for taxi drivers is Kheam Hock Road Cemetery because it is situated along Kheam Hock Road.
The 213 acre Bukit Brown Cemetery was known among the Chinese as "kopi sua" or coffee hill. The cemetery contained some very ornate graves, complete with "jagas" in Sikh dress to guard them. In the 1970s the government began to clear the cemetery for redevelopment. The clearing process has been stagnated recently. Yet it remains as one of the oldest cemetery in Singapore. You can see very old trees and unique plantation all over the hill.
Bukit Brown is also known as Kopi hill, it is also alleged the most haunted place in Singapore.
There are many historical tomb stones, which are worth keeping in MF or LF.
I will be out of Singapore but will be monitoring this.
I propose a MF outing with a few locations pinpointed.
Singapore is changing too fast. Recently the Tanjiong Pagar Station went into history.
I have burned a good number of 120. Now it is Bukit Brown turn.
咖啡山坟场建新道路 陈金钟等先贤古墓或受影响
http://www.zaobao.com.sg/sp/sp110914_013.shtml
不过，咖啡山坟地占地86公顷，共有约10万个墓碑，因此墓主的记录工作将是一个浩大工程，须要不少时间及人力。
新道路将穿越咖啡山坟场，估计有5000个坟墓将在明年第四季被挖掘。陆交局届时将公开受影响坟墓的详情，让公众认领先人遗骨。
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Bukit brown#page=4
Asia Paranormal Investigators
http://www.spi.com.sg/haunted/ghoulish_trial/main04.htm
George Henry Brown arrived from Calcutta via Penang about 1840. He bought the area and called it Mount Pleasant. Brown was a ship owner in Singapore trading to China and Japan. He was a strong supporter of the Presbyterian Church where he played the organ which he had bought from the old London Mission Chapel at the junction of North Bridge and Bras Basah roads.
The organ later went to the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd. The land was bought by Ong Kew Ho and the Hokkien Huay Kuan who gave it to the She Ong Kongsi. After much resistance from the kongsi, the government acquired the land in 1919 and opened it as a public burial ground which was managed by a committee led by Tan Kheam Hock and See Tiong Wah, compradore of the Hongkong Bank, on 1 Jan 1922. Another commonly known name especially for taxi drivers is Kheam Hock Road Cemetery because it is situated along Kheam Hock Road.
The 213 acre Bukit Brown Cemetery was known among the Chinese as "kopi sua" or coffee hill. The cemetery contained some very ornate graves, complete with "jagas" in Sikh dress to guard them. In the 1970s the government began to clear the cemetery for redevelopment. The clearing process has been stagnated recently. Yet it remains as one of the oldest cemetery in Singapore. You can see very old trees and unique plantation all over the hill.
