From Commonwealth Drive, turn right into Commonwealth Lane. At the end of this road, you will spot a single storey structure with strong Chinese architectural elements. This is the Shuang Long Wu Shu Ancestral Hall.
In 1887, the Hakka clan, Ying Fo Fui Kun bought 40.5 hectares of land bounded by Holland Road and what later became Commonwealth Avenue, as a burial ground for kinsmen from Jia Ying prefecture in Canton, China. Called "Shuang Long Shan" (Mandarin: Twin Dragons Hills), it had a hall at the foot of the hill which housed ancestral tablets.
By the early 1900s, a village had formed here. It was known as Ying Fo Lut (Hakka: Ying Ho Road), after the main road through the village. The village was made up of mostly Hakkas, with some Hainanese, Cantonese, Malays and Hokkiens.
In 1920, a clan member, Mr Huang Yun Hui founded the Jia Ying Wu Shu Hospital where Block 17 Holland Drive is today. Unfortunately, he passed away before the hospital was completed. Due to an economic downturn, the hospital ceased operations by the end of 1920 and was then leased to a paper-making factory before becoming a hostel.
To provide education to the village children, the clan opened a branch of the Ying Xin School in the ancestral hall in 1926. There were about five to six classrooms, separated by wooden partitions. Subjects such as Maths, Science, Geography, History, Art and Music were conducted in Hakka and Mandarin.
As Queenstown developed, the burial land was acquired for public housing. The village was resettled in 1968 and the school closed a year later. Today, the 1.89 hectare site retains the relocated graves and the original ancestral hall.