CHEN, Lucy nee Lim Seok Hui 林淑惠
Women through the Years: Economic & Family Lives,
Accession Number 003130
- Oral History Centre
Source
- 3
Total Reels
- Patricia Lee
Interviewer
- 02:28:59
Total Running Time
- English
Language
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Reel/Disc 1 of 3
Metadata
- 9 Mar 2007
Recording Date
- 00:53:54
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
Conditions Governing Access
Synopsis
*Born in 1925, Singapore. She was delivered at home. Her relationships and impressions of her paternal grandfather, Lim Nee Soon and grandmother, Mrs Lim Nee Soon. Recollections of how family would go to the movies on Friday nights. How her father, Lim Chong Pang, a strict disciplinarian would impart good morals in the children. How her mother, Lee Poh Neo embodied love in her. Recollections of her maternal grandparents, Mr and Mrs Lee Choon Guan. How she discovered that Sophia Blackmore tutored her grandmother. How it was possible for her father to marry into the mother’s family. How her faith helped keep her humility despite her rich family heritage. Growing up years in Amber Road. Recollections of the amah who looked after her. She had a Japanese confinement lady. A comparison between the amahs of the past and the foreign maids of today. How the house owned by Lim Chong Pang at Cairnhill is now the Venus Mansion site. Artifacts at the Garden Hotel were from grandmother's house in Amber Road.
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Reel/Disc 2 of 3
Metadata
- 9 Mar 2007
Recording Date
- 00:51:01
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
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Synopsis
*She was holidaying in Ceylon when war broke out in Singapore. How her father and his family were shipwrecked while trying to escape. How her father was made a prisoner-of-war in Changi. How her brother signed up to join the army. Her role as as a volunteer in the Women Voluntary Service. Her schooling years in Raffles Girls' School. Her interest in domestic science. How she managed to find a temporary teaching post in St Hilda's. Her work as a part-time accounts clerk at her father's Southeast Asia Film Company. Description of the inheritance left by her maternal grandfather. Fond memories of Nee Soon, Sultan and Garrick Theatres.
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Reel/Disc 3 of 3
Metadata
- 15 Mar 2007
Recording Date
- 00:44:04
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
Conditions Governing Access
Synopsis
*How she met her husband, Chen Nee Sian, a former Singapore Harbour Board staff. Open air dances at Pasir Panjang. How her wedding tea-party was held at the house in Amber Road. Food was cated from G H| Cafe. Her gown was tailored at Novelty Store, a Jewish shop. Her conversion to Christianity and the Methodist influence in her life. A comparison of how children were raised in the past and in the present. How Tan Keong Siak's three daughters were educated by Sophia Blackmore. Games that they played as children at home. The children held concerts with the servants as their audience. Differences in the role of mothers and nannies in the early years. How the great grandchildren wore red during Lim Nee Soon's mother funeral. Most celebrated festive sessions were Chinese New Year and grandmother's birthdays. Her lessons learnt from life.
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