Tuesday, 21 January 2014

Addendum : Aku dah tau Kilang Purba Siapa Di Tengah Rimba

Sorry pasal "Architecture Signature Series No. 3" yang pending tu.. aku distracted by recent discovery pasal Kilang di Tebing Runtuh tu..

Sambungan dari : "Untold History : Kilang Purbe di Tengah Rimba"

1st glimpse of "Kilang Seramic" yang pernah wujud di sebelah Barat Barat Selat Johor ada dicatatkan dalam :


It was travel account of Duke of Sutherland mase melawat Tharsis and Tanah Johor sekitar tahun 1887..

This Dukes sails from old Britons menggunakan yatch mewahnya.. Sans Peur..


Dia ke Singapore dulu.. then Tyersall Palace sebelum ke Istana Besar.. this ship was later sold to american in 1947 then renamed into "HMCS Trenora"

Daripada planning nak stay 2 hari.. dia kesedapan and stay for another 10 days.  

Cerita dalam ni agak lawak dan bersahaja.. it's how this bunch of royalties trade jokes dgn Sultan Abu Bakar mengutuk Prince of Saxon-Weimar yang mase tu melawat Istana Besar jugak.. Dato' Sri Amar DiRaja Rahman Anda jugak tak terlepas bahan lawak dorang.


TILES & CERAMIC FACTORY


On 3rd Day of their visit.. HH Abu Bakar arranged 'technical visit' ke Kilang Seramik dan Tiles yang terletak di 'Sungai Skudai' onboard HMS Panti.

Most of us yang familiar dengan Sg. Skudai tentu tahu yang Sg. Skudai was muddy dan tidak sesuai untuk 60ft Yatch macam HMS Panti.  Sg. Skudai was never been recorded as major ship route for hundred of years.  

So.. the only surviving record pasal "Kilang" ni :



Kilang tu diusahakan oleh "Messrs Fraser & Fowke".. yang tinggal di bangulow berdekatan jugak..

Relationnya dengan Sultan Johor pulak... tapak Kilang tu dihadiahkan kepada Messrs Fraser & Fowke.. and then Fraser & Fowke menghasilkan batu-bata dan tiles untuk "Istana" Sultan Abu Bakar di Muar.  

Makin interesting cerita ni.. as now you know the only local factory yang produced bahan binaan Istana ada di "Skudai (?)".. selama ni kita cuma baca those materials was imported from Europe.


THEORETICAL PROBLEM

Aku ade problem dalam cerita ni..

1. Kilang ni dikatakan di "Skudai".. unless.. ade orang lain boleh jumpe 'kilang' DAN bunglow lama berdekatan kilang lain di tepi Sg. Skudai.. it would prove me wrong.

2. Takde rekod pasal Messrs Frasers & Fowke.. sebab tu aku masih agak bingung sekarang

3. Product di Kilang Tebing Runtuh merupakan ceramic cups.. dari material berwarna putih sebab banyak tanah putih kt sana.. but this 'lost' factory pulak.. products nya adalah Batu-Bata dan Tiles merah..

TAPI.. hati kecil aku tetap mengatakan Kilang ini... ADALAH KILANG DI TEBING RUNTUH.. sebab :..

Utk buat ceramic cub.. x perlu serombong setinggi 80ft... some seramic cub factory tak de pakai serombong pun.. 

So.. Theory aku.. prior 1887.. kilang ni buat tiles and bricks daripada tanah merah taken from opposite Sg. Perepat. 

In 1895.. semasa HH Abu Bakar mangkat.. dia tutup sebab dah takde kroni.. TAPIII.. infrastructure kilang ni masih boleh digunakan.. So.. somebody taking over from 1895 onwards.. tapi digunakan buat ceramic cups menggunakan bahan sekitar kilang ni.. 


Update 23/01/2014.. PRIOR TO THAT... sometimes 1885

Rupenye.. that area was packed with Kilang seramic, brick and tiles.. so far aku dapat identified 3 kilang besar dikawasan tu.

Thanks to "Siber79" and "Anom" ntah sape.. NOW aku dapat connection dia.


So.. ceritanya.. courtesy of "Siber79"


Black lining highlighted by him.. aku add je in red box:

Ada 2 lease : large pieces of ground.. terletak di Selat Johor.. dalam 4 Batu dari pusat bandar (Istana Besar).. TERLETAK ANTARA 2 SUNGAI.. Sungai Skudai dan Danga.. both navitable by Tongkang of considerable sizes...

Now.. it would point you at kawasan "Bakar Batu".. diantara Sg. Skudai dan Sg. Danga.. bukan di Tebing Runtuh.. :


4 Batu.. bersamaan 6.43738 KM

Ade problem dekat sini.. :

1.  That area.. kurang dalam pengiraan 4 miles..
2.  Area Bakar Batu.. tak boleh diukur dengan Miles.. SEBAB.. takde jalan darat unless ke Skudai upnorth.. 


Ni pulak THEORY AKU :


Ada possibility besar.. dorang gunakan NAUTICA MILES.. bukan "Miles".. 

4 Nautical Miles ; Bersamaan 7.408 KM

Its about the same distance daripada Istana Besar ke Tebing Runtuh..

Perlu di ingat.. zaman tu dorang travel menggunakan sampan, kapal dan perahu.. so.. sebab tu aku cakap "berkemungkinan besar"

As for name tempat pulak... Sg Skudai and Sg Danga memang dah lama terkenal sebab banyak penempatan disekitar tebingnya.. they all Mat Salleh.. mcm korang pegi Canada.. ko hafal name tempat yang pelik selain yang selalu korang dengar??


KERSS AND THE GANG

So.. there is plenty of Kerr's mendarat di Singapore in 1850's.. dari keluarga yang berlainan... but surname is "Kerr":


So.. cume 1 Kerr je yang connected with Johore.. iaitu James C. Kerr..


So.. in 1880's.. this James Kerr berkahwin dengan Ms. Fraser.. anak kepada owner of  "Messrs. Fraser & Fowke"...

BERMAKNA.. kilang ni di usahakan oleh James Kerr dulu.. sebelum Fraser ambil alih in 1887.. 

Pada 1883.. Messrs Singapore Bricks and Tiles Works telah membeli "Skudai Bricks & Tiles Works" at $50.00 of 1000 shares



Anecdotal account recorded that Kilang ni memang terkenal pada zaman itu.. written in 1884 :


So.. in summary :



FINDING

Indefinite.  

Lokasinya : Mungkin memang ada 2. Mungkin ada 1 je. unless ada evidence lain yang kilang ni bukan kilang lama di Tebing Runtuh tu.

Tapi.. itu lagi menambah kerja researcher-researcher to locate another area di Bakar Batu sebab significant Kilang ni adalah kilang yang digunakan untuk membina Istana Muar which make kilang di Tebing Runtuh a little less significant sebab tak membawa apa-apa kepentingan.

So.. quest is still on.  Good luck!

Untold History : Primbon Ampuh Hugh Hefner

Sepanjang 1900 - 1920's.. orang2 mcm Rodney Charleston, A. R Wilkinson, Buckley, RO Winstedt and few others FMS Officers were sent up north to collect ilmu-ilmu orang melayu yang sudah pupus pade zaman tu. 

Most of them compiled in different manners... keampuhannye... well... korang pikir lah sendiri... hari ni bulan February 2012... and this were taken from nenek moyang korang 100 tahun lepas....


































Most of it were compiled from Kelantan's account and Pahang.

The best thing is.. it is believed... one of these charms were used by Hang Tuah/Nadim mase dia memperdayakan Tun Teja dan dibawak lari..... tak payah aku kasitau.. ade plak anak dare org kene angkut ramai2 plak nanti 

Mcm biase.. ko bace laa siang malam 14 tahun tanpe henti.. klu tak tau carenye tak gune jugak 




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Untold History : Wild Wild East

Fascinated by Cowboy???  We feed by amazing stories of Wild Wild West.. but often forgotten what our history has to offer

Ages of Wild Wild West were started from 1820's - 1920's.... BUT... ages of Wild Wild East kite far more preceded far from the history of american wild west.. which is from 1700's - 1920's.

Satu perbezaan jee 'kehebatan' Wild Wild East dgn Wild Wild West = Cowboy tak pernah sampai ke Tanah Melayu.. whilst.. hundred of Malay Pirate pernah wreck havoc at New York Harbour.... tu tak termasuk cerita aku "untold history : the real captain mohd. Jack sparrow" yg wreck havoc kat Liverpool UK dan Boston US.

It is part of "Wild Wild East" yang kita ade.

Early 1800's

In the case of mutiny of Trimacolee.. hundred of Malay Pirate mutinied against Royal British Navy.. merampas kapal dan belayar ke Liverpool under leadership of British Buccaneer Capt. John Davie.. which inspired cerita yg korang tengok kt TV "Pirate of Caribbean"  .... aku pernah klua cerite pasal ni

1817 Telok Blangah

Telok Blangah pernah jadik safe heaven for Pirate... some sort like "Shipwreck Cove" disana.

Semua Pirate enjoyed an immunity bile berada dikawasan Temenggong, and British officer could not catch them klu dorang berada dalam kawasan Temenggong.. sehinggalah Temenggong Ibrahim berpindah ke Tg. Puteri pada 1850's.

Pernah dilapurkan :

Jalan ke Istana Seri Gelam Sultan Hussin tempat bersarangnya Penyamun.  Hampir setiap hari ada saja orang dibunuh dan dirompak oleh orang2 Temenggong. and British yang baru bertapak tidak dapat berbuah apa-apa membendung perkara ini.





Rompak terang-terangan disiang  hari selalu terjadik dikawasan Singapora semasa tahun 1817 - 1850'an.  Much more better than Wild Wild West.




So.. bukan orang je yang 'liar', but.. environment pun wild jugak.  Bayangkan korang hidup zaman ni.. sure only the fittest survived. 


1860's

Sultan Abu Bakar implimented 'perlalunan' cara Belanda keatas kartel perdagangan Lada dan Gambir.. setiap "Sungai" dikawal oleh orang2 Sultan dan mengenakan Duti bagi setiap bahan dagangan yang lalu.

Cara ini digunakan dengan halus melalui sistem "kangcu".. tetapi, bukan Gambir sahaja yang di kenakan Duti.. ape jenis barang yang lalu semua dikenakan Duti,... kecuai barangan yang dibawa oleh orang-orang asli dan orang laut.

Tahun2 ni jugak terdapat beberape peperangan di Selangor, Perak dan Kedah.. image of Wild Wild East Tanah Melayu preceded America punye.

WILD WILD EAST INTERNATIONAL

And.. few other cases, kebanyakannye melibatkan Malay Pirate occurred overseas... from 1870's to 1900's... sehinggakan ke New Jersey

UK, Manila and Hong Kong :











New Jersey America :



Now... that's a little glimpse of Wild Wild East Tanah Melayu.. klu ade Director2 Filem yg bace.. cube laa dorang buat cerite2 wild wild east ni.. daripade cerite bodo psal cinte, derhake dgn mak laa.. psal lupe diri laa sebab jadik kaye, cerite Dato'2 and Datin2 haram jadah.. mcm siyall je aku tengok. Meluat aku weiiih.