I had went to explore the tyersall mansion with other 3 photographer on 24 May 2008. Time 930am..Too scare, to go at night time, as this a prohibited place locate very inner side of botanic garden..
This is my 1st time, going to a haunted place.. felt cold n errie.. and some more i have a strong paranormal instinct on the unwanted stuff.. And think this is also the last time entering there..
All the negative sense, wont stop me on going to explore more exordinary thing with my daring friends.. LOL.
The below text is about the historical history of the tyersall mansion.
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The origins of the estate, and the old Tyersall Istana:"In March 1857, Boustead and Co. advertised for sale, Tyersall, William Napier’s estate and house in the Tanglin area which covered sixty-seven acres of land.William Napier retired from the East in 1857 after a distinguished career. Napier Road is named after him and the road led to his house and his estate, Tyersall, which was built in 1854 and later replaced by New Tyersall (or Istana Tyersall), the Sultan Abu Bakar of Johor’'s (1831-1895) palatial Singapore residence.Sometime in 1860, the property was purchased by Sultan Abu Bakar of Johor, grandson of Temenggung Abdul Rahman who had negotiated with Raffles the Singapore in 1819. Napier’s house was demolished to make way for the construction of New Tyersall in 1890.The house was completed in 1892, and the Sultan held such a grand housewarming reception that the Singapore Free Press provided details of the architecture and fittings of the house. The rectangular building measured 210 feet long by 174 feet deep, was in the “Corinthian style of architecture… with a red tiled roof” and a seventy-feet high tower in the center topped by the Sultan’s symbolic star and crescent.Among its key features were a spacious projected carriage porch, a grand staircase with ornamental iron balustrades, a grand reception room, a ball room, a billiard room -- and it was fitted with electric light. The installation of electricity was hailed by the Free Press as indicative of an improvement of “domestic civilization, and a marked step in the industrial progress of the Colony.” Interior-wise, the fanlights were Arabsque in design, the wood used was teak and ironwood and the building had altogether 420 doors.New Tyersall, according to Lee Kip Lin, architect and author of The Singapore House, was one of the grandest homes built in the Victorian Eclectic idiom, combining not only gothic and classical motifs, but also some Indo-Saracenic elements into the design. In his welcoming speech, Sultan Abu Bakar announced the plans for the house had been approved by his late wife, the Sultana, and executed by the Malay architect, Datoh Yayah. Typically Singaporean, New Tyersall had a cosmopolitan character. The iron-work had been carried out mainly by the local engineering firm of Howarth Erskine,74 and some portion of it by H.C. Hogan, the contractor was Mr. Wong Ah Fook from Johore, and the upholstery was provided by John Little and Co., the “finest Store East of Suez.” Once home to drag hunts until the sultry weather outdid the imported English hounds, New Tyersall was destroyed by a fire reported at 2:45 am on September 10th, 1905. The cause of the fire was faulty electrical wiring."
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The Tyersall area was also the Indian Military Base Hospital during the singapore battle with japan. The hospital was clearly marked with a large red cross to indicate its purpose; it was actually a cluster of huts where the wounded Indian troops were warded.
A squadron of Japanese bombers dropped incendiary bombs on the hospital on 11 February 1942 and the whole cluster of huts was turned into a raging inferno. All the 700 patients of the casualty packed wards were burnt to death...
Glad to know all this thingy, after my trip there.. if is before the trip, think i might not be stepping in there at all..
