Ng Yan Ching – Old Margaret Drive & Queenstown Part 1 | Chronicles of Old Singapore

Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Ng Yan Ching, a former resident of Margaret Drive and volunteer with My Community, talks about why having been a Queenstowner, she is always a Queenstowner. She remembers her rental flat and neighbours at Margaret Drive in the ‘70s and ‘80s, her schools and several memorable itinerant hawkers who came to the neighbourhood. Part 1 | https://youtu.be/paKqabMnI9w Part 2 | https://youtu.be/7n5PNinxpXg 00:00 Introduction 02:41 Once a Queenstowner, Always a Queenstowner 06:42 Our Rental Flat in Margaret Drive 16:38 Our Neighbours 23:48 Childhood Places & Activities 29:01 Margaret Drive Primary School & River Valley High School 34:34 Char Siew Pao & Chee Cheong Fan Men My Community’s heritage events: https://www.eventbrite.sg/o/my-community-8432912044 I’m Dr Loh KS, the people’s historian. I’m interested in the history of Singapore and the lives of its people. In Chronicles of Old Singapore, I speak to people about their memories of Singapore before it became a global city today. We discuss three topics: 1. People and places. 2. Change and continuity. 3. The importance of heritage. As a historian, I try to stay true to the oral history method on a video format and social media platform. I let the interviewee speak, as the ‘voice of the past’ as Paul Thompson put it. No clickbait, no BS, no posturing. The aim is to canvas a wide range of voices on various aspects of Singapore history and heritage – physical, social, cultural, economic. Do like the video, share your memories below and subscribe to the channel for future episodes. Write to lohkahseng@chroniclesresearch.com if you have any of these stories to share: • Old places or kampongs. • Communities – their way of life & culture. • Childhood & schools. • Work or business. Support Chronicles of Old Singapore on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ChroniclesofOldSingapore Follow the channel on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61551786759344 Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/loh-ks TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lks992002 Chronicles Research & Education is my research consultancy on the history of Singapore: https://www.chroniclesresearch.com/ Caveat: this is above all a podcast based on personal memory. As has been well-documented in oral history, memory is not always reliable and what is recalled here should not be taken as fact. However, as Alessandro Portelli noted, the subjectivity of oral history is also its great strength, and what is inaccurately remembered may point to how deeply meaningful the past is to people. #singaporehistory #memory #heritage #nostalgia #oralhistory #socialhistory #history #singapore