Sunday, 6 May 2007

Project - Singapore's History Investigated (Photographic Survey) (PRIVATE ALBUM)




Current Photographic Survey of Existing Remnants. PLEASE DO NOT REPOST. All Rights Reserved by the Author.

(Photo sampling to be updated when more are explored and come online)

See http://kmleong.multiply.com/photos/album/55 for more information
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31 comments:

  1. XXXX YYYY6 May 2007 at 21:16

    A fort there? Whoa...

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  2. Jules Yim6 May 2007 at 21:19

    Soz, replied with the wrong account.

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  3. kit meng leong6 May 2007 at 21:53

    Hoi! Don't you know it's rude to do a drive-by commenting?

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  4. Jules Yim6 May 2007 at 22:57

    Oops. :(

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  5. kit meng leong8 May 2007 at 22:41

    Will visit Fort Connaught tomorrow. Hopefully will get nice pictures of Forts Connaught, Serapong, Siloso, Silingsing and Teregah as well as the Berhala Reping Battery.

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  6. moon luminous8 May 2007 at 22:46

    Ok.. have a great time. wow lucky you, get to go on field trips on weekdays..

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  7. kit meng leong8 May 2007 at 22:47

    I'm taking half the day off. Boss already not happy with me.

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  8. moon luminous8 May 2007 at 22:48

    dont bluff me. u are the boss.. ;-)
    my boss would be too happy if i take leave. i still have last year's leave to clear...

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  9. kit meng leong8 May 2007 at 22:49

    see! You also can go on field trips on weekdays!

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  10. moon luminous8 May 2007 at 22:53

    cant.. have deadlines to meet.. so bosses are hard to please.. they want us to clear leave, and yet they want work done.

    hey you have a great time tomorrow!

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  11. kit meng leong8 May 2007 at 22:55

    Tip. If your boss tells you that you have milestones to meet, tell him you use the metric system. No milestones.

    kekekeke XD

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  12. moon luminous8 May 2007 at 22:57

    haha good one, thank you. XD!

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  13. kit meng leong8 May 2007 at 23:51

    kekeke We're meeting the sentosa people early tomorrow morning, too darn early if you asked me but hey, beggers can't be choosers.

    ok will post photos here when I get back.

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  14. kit meng leong9 May 2007 at 00:25

    Ok. Uploaded 6 maps I made a few days back for your info. Will delete them from this album in a few days since they will form part of the final published book.

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  15. moon luminous9 May 2007 at 00:38

    the 5 forts here are pretty near to each other..

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  16. kit meng leong9 May 2007 at 00:44

    Before the settlement expanded. This was in 1861. Singapore's population only numbered just over 81,000.

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  17. kit meng leong10 May 2007 at 20:38

    Expected to spend only 1/2 a day... ended up staying 1 full day.

    We did some prelim survey measurements of the Berhala Reping Battery, found a gunner's shelter with 1892 etched in the wall, and surveyed one of the twin 6inch QF gun emplacements. The magazine room looks extensive from the number of huge air vents from the ground above but it was flooded so couldn't explore. Will need to return and pump out the water.

    Then piled back into the golfcart and off we went to Fort Connaught. The Machine room entrance was already overgrown so Indiana Jones came to our rescue with his parang. Took up a second parang and shears and hacked our way in. Went in and did more measurements. Ankle deep in guano... lovely.

    We broke for lunch after that at the club cafe just above the fort. Oogled the young pretty rich-girls playing golf and fed the peacocks. Found out it was rather fun watching the golfer's reactions when they spotted us wielding parangs and walking all over the greens. Then decided to get back to work and we photographed and surveyed the no.1 gun which used to mount with a 9.2 inch gun.

    Finally went back up to Fort Serapong to do some quick photography of the 9.2 inch emplacements on the summit.

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  18. moon luminous10 May 2007 at 22:54

    fed the peacocks? wow!

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  19. Jules Yim10 May 2007 at 22:58

    Eh. I wish I could jaunt around Singapore like that...

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  20. kit meng leong11 May 2007 at 00:10

    aiyah... I've been inviting but no one ever takes me up on it and comes along.

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  21. Jules Yim11 May 2007 at 00:14

    Aiyoh...daytime must work mah...

    :(

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  22. kit meng leong11 May 2007 at 00:16

    Give your boss the finger like I do to mine.

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  23. Jules Yim11 May 2007 at 00:18

    Hmm...you give yourself the finger? Intriguing...

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  24. kit meng leong24 May 2007 at 01:32

    Chen popped over today to chat on the progress of the work so we popped over to Mt. Palmer to have a look-see. Got a few snapshots of the view from the top but he's right, there doesn't seem to be anything left of the fort, not even the foundations. From the top we guestimate the remaining height of the summit to be at max 20+ metres or about 70ft. That's well shy of the recorded height of Mt. Palmer which stood at a height of 130ft at the apex. Even allowing for a levelling of the summit to build the fort, we should still be hovering around the 100ft mark. If there were any foundations, it would have been ripped out. The existing plans of fort palmer we've obtained from the records office in London don't show anything deeper than a simple magazine store which should have a floor level at most 7-8 metres below the ground level, still well above the 70+ ft we were standing at earlier.

    Sigh. Was hoping to find some evidence of the fort wall, the corner of which is very much on the remnant that still remains today.

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  25. Jules Yim24 May 2007 at 04:29

    Hmmm...wheredis?

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  26. kit meng leong24 May 2007 at 05:47

    Berhala Reping. Small island that's now being reclaimed to join Sentosa island. Off the eastern most tip of Sentosa. Very cool looking place. Pity the underground chambers were flooded when we were there. Need to go back and pump out the water to explore but with the water in there, won't find anything worthwhile.

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  27. Jules Yim24 May 2007 at 13:46

    Thanks for the info. :)

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  28. moon luminous24 May 2007 at 19:19

    yes, many thanks pal, for keeping us posted.
    ;-)

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  29. kit meng leong25 May 2007 at 01:03

    kekeke ok. Check back often then. I'll keep posting new photos the more we uncover.

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  30. moon luminous25 May 2007 at 06:10

    wa, a close-up! long time no see pal! ;-)

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  31. kit meng leong24 October 2007 at 22:29

    Bumping this thread up for Jim.

    Jim, this might interest you. Have a look.

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