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The Singapore Recreation Club was founded on 23 June 1883 by a group of thirty Eurasian men and was officially established on 1 July 1883. At that time, the club was housed in a building on Waterloo Street. In 1884, a club pavilion was erected on the site of the Padang.
John Edwin Richard Tessensohn (8 April 1855 – 26 September 1926) was a Singaporean politician and leader of the Eurasian community of Singapore.He was the first Eurasian representative to the Legislative Council of the Straits Settlements and served as the president of the Singapore Recreation Club, a prominent Eurasian club, for 25 years.
Statue of Stamford Raffles, the first British governor of Singapore. This is a timeline of Singaporean history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Singapore and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Singapore. See also the list of years in Singapore
Singapore Recreation Club: 1-0: 1918-1919: Not played: N/A: 1920: 1st Battalion South Staffordshire: Singapore Recreation Club: 1-0: 1921: Singapore Cricket Club: Royal Engineers: 2-1: 1922: 2nd Battalion Middlesex Regiment: Singapore Cricket Club: 1-0: 1923: 2nd Battalion Middlesex Regiment: St Joseph's Old Boys: 3-0: 1924: HMS "Pegasus ...
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The Padang or Singapore Cricket Club Ground is a cricket ground in Singapore. The Padang became a major recreational area when two clubs, the Singapore Cricket Club in 1870 and the Singapore Recreation Club in 1883 were established at both ends of the field. It was used for exercising horses in the 1920s and became the scene for the New Year ...
Between 2 Oceans: A Military History of Singapore from 1275 to 1971 (2nd ed. Marshall Cavendish International Asia, 2011). Ong, Siang Song. One Hundred Years' History of the Chinese in Singapore (Oxford University Press--Singapore, 1984) online. Perry, John Curtis. Singapore: Unlikely Power (Oxford University Press, 2017). Tan, Kenneth Paul (2007).
Hong Lim Green would start its first storytelling tradition during the Japanese occupation of Singapore in the 1940s. After the war, it was used as a cricket ground by members of the Singapore Chinese Recreation Club and the Singapore Cricket Club, and was also the venue for many of the first political speeches and election rallies in the 1950s ...