Chan Cheok Thiam planing some planks he salvaged for his next bucket, surrounded by some buckets he made in the small shed he works out of in Kampung Kuli, Malacca.
Story and photos by VINCENT TAN
It will truly be a black day when the last blacksmith on Blacksmith Street (present name: Jalan Tukang Besi) stops operating. For then the street in Malacca’s Heritage Quarter (the area that includes Jonker Street) will have truly lost the meaning behind it.
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