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History lessons in tiles from a cemetery
Artist documents tiles - some from early 1900s - of tombs in Greater Bukit Brown
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Melody Zaccheus, Ong Wee Jin
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Over the past decade or so, heritage researchers and history buffs have hacked through dense overgrowth in the Greater Bukit Brown cemetery complex and unearthed stories of the people buried there.
The cemetery is also an "open-air museum", with a repository of decorative tiles dating as far back as the early 1900s that are attached to the tombs.
