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After 50 years at Raffles Hotel Singapore, historian Leslie Danker is a walking history archive
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Mr Leslie Danker, 83, celebrated his 50th career anniversary at Raffles Hotel Singapore in March.
PHOTO: RAFFLES HOTEL SINGAPORE
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SINGAPORE – With its old-world charm and colonial architecture, Raffles Hotel Singapore in Beach Road has a history intertwined with that of the nation.
The job of Mr Leslie Danker, the hotel’s resident historian, is to share the colonial-era establishment’s illustrious past with guests. As its longest-serving employee, having worked there for half a century, the storyteller himself has a place in its grand narrative.
