This is a compilation of all the posters.
Locating Bukit Brown in official maps of Singapore, but first a poem by Khoo Seok Wan...
How the highway proposal will affect Bukit Brown (which is actually more than one cemetery!)
1862 - The name of "Mr Brown" first appears on official survey maps of Singapore
1898 - The name "Bukit Brown" appears, but this was before the cemetery was set up...
1924 - the first detailed map showing Bukit Brown Chinese Cemetery, established in 1922
1961 - the name "Bukit Brown" finally settles at the Bukit Brown Chinese Cemetery site
1974 - First map after the closure of Bukit Brown Cemetery...what about later maps?
Bukit Brown Chinese Cemetery was also known as "Er Guan Zhong" or "'Two pass' cemetery"...
There may be missing WWII soldiers within Bukit Brown and Seh Ong cemeteries!
Two of the many important websites on Bukit Brown: one in English, and one in Chinese
There are various maps available online to document and share information in visual form
There are two important blogs online which are rich sources of information
There are many guided walks taking place in Bukit Brown led by various people
The origins of the loose group of volunteer guides commonly known as "Brownies"
The Qing Ming or "tombsweeping festival" period is when the hills literally come alive!
Just as homes get renovated, tombs need refurbishment from time to time...
Tombs and tombstones have their own codes. Decipher them, and what you are looking comes alive with information... if not, they are just stones with funny squiggles on them...
Layout of tombs in Bukit Brown
The various parts of a tomb
The various types of tombs
Reading a Hokkien Tomb
Reading a Teochew tomb
Peranakan Tombs
Tombs and their guardian animals
Tomb Embellishments
Felicitous Motifs
Tombs Guardians
Tomb embellishments - The Four Appointments
Tomb embellishments - The Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Tomb embellishments - The Four Loves
Tomb construction materials
Tomb constructions materials - bricks
There is burial, and then exhumation
The tombs in Bukit Brown tell of the many who left their mark in Singapore society, either through their personal efforts, or through the various societies, schools and other institutions they were involved with.
The many stories told by tombs...from the famous to the not so famous...
Khung Nguan Chew &
Pang Cheow Yee
Gan Eng Seng
Kum Cheng Soo
Tan Boo Liat
Khoo Siok Wan
Lim Keng Chiew
Tan Lian Chye a.k.a Tan Chor Nam
See Teong Wah
Tay Koh Yat
Leow Chia Heng
The Chui Huay Lim Club & Lee Kim Soo
Seah Eu Chin and his plantation
Seah Eu Chin
Seah Eu China and his family
Ngee Ann Kongsi & Wak Hai Cheng Beo
Teochew Poit Ip Huay Kuan & Lee Kim Seng
Lim Chong Pang
Boey Chuan Poh
The Schools...
Thong Chai Medical Institution
Republican Party
Tong Meng Hui
Chinese Chamber of Commerce
Chinese Banks
Bukit Brown is not just about stones and bones: it is a place teeming with life - flora and fauna abound.
With all that history and heritage it contains and with all the flora and fauna it holds, surely Bukit Brown deserves to be recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
A 4-star site for Heritage Conservation
Nature in Bukit Brown
Fig trees in Bukit Brown
Bird life in Bukit Brown
New discoveries in Bukit Brown
Bukit Brown - a UNESCO World Heritage site?
Bukit Brown - a UNESCO World Heritage site?
Bukit Brown - a UNESCO World Heritage site?
