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THE COLONIAL BUNGALOWS AND “COUNTRY” ROADS AT SEMBAWANG A reminder of Singapore's colonial past, there are more than 400 colonial houses, or sometimes known as the black and white houses, still standing in different parts of Singapore. One large cluster of Singapore's colonial houses are located at the northern side, near Sembawang Shipyard. The others are distributed at Seletar and Portsdown vicinity as FROM VILLAGES TO FLATS (PART 3) From Villages to Flats (Part 3) – The Traditional Shophouses. Shophouses are commonly found in many historic cities and towns of the Southeast Asian countries, but the shophouses in Singapore and Malaysia are more similar in their architectural styles and designs, largely due to the two nations’ historical links. JURONG HILL OBSERVATORY TOWER Not many people are aware that there is a 60m-tall Jurong Hill, originally known as Bukit Peropok, situated beside the Jurong Bird Park. Entering via Jalan Ahmad Ibrahim, one can walk up the gentle slope and access the 18m-tall three-storey spiral Jurong Hill Observatory Tower that is standing on top of the hill. A $200,000 SENTOSA BLAKANG MATI ARTILLERY BARRACK Located at Gunner Lane, off Artillery Road, of present-day Sentosa, Blakang Mati Artillery Barrack was built in 1904. The former British stronghold was named after the island where it was established. Pulau Blakang Mati, which means "behind death" in Malay, would be renamed as Sentosa in 1970 as a redevelopment project to turn the island ROYAL NAVAL KRANJI WIRELESS STATION 1960S royal naval kranji wireless station 1960s. By Remember Singapore | Published July 26, 2013 | Full size is 550 × 434 pixels. accommodation barracks for the radio station crew at Kranji 1937. royal naval kranji wireless station entrance 1970s. Bookmark thepermalink .
THE COLONIAL CHARMS OF WESSEX ESTATE’S BLACK AND WHITE Even as the rapid development of the one-north biomedical, media and other engineering industries creep towards its doorstep, a walk around Wessex Estate, off Portsdown Road, still makes one feel he has travelled back in time. Wessex Estate's clusters of colonial-style black and white houses were mostly built in the 1930s and 1940s. Madeup
NOSTALGIC COLOURED PHOTOS OF FORMER CHONG PANG VILLAGE The old Westhill Estate, located at Sembawang Road 13 ½ milestone, was established by Lim Chong Pang in the 1930s on his father’s former rubber plantation. Divided into several plots of land, he leased them out to the Indian labourers who were hired by the British in their construction of the naval base at Sembawang. EXPLORING THE RUINS OF SYONAN JINJA AT MACRITCHIE During the Japanese Occupation, the Japanese constructed two of their sacred sites in Singapore. One was the Syonan Chureito at the top of Bukit Batok Hill, while the other was the better-known Syonan Jinja at MacRitchite Reservoir. The Syonan Jinja - its name means "Light of the South Shrine" - was a Shinto shrine built THE ONCE MYSTERIOUS BEDOK AND WOODLANDS FLATS The Once Mysterious Bedok and Woodlands Flats. Singaporeans always love a good ghost story. And Block 611 of Bedok Reservoir Road provided just that 30 years back. People have always been curious of vacant houses, including Housing and Development Board (HDB) flats. One or two empty units may be normal, but not for the entire block. SELETAR CAMP & OLD LAMP POSTS Seletar Camp became operationally ready in 1928, as part of the British's tactical defence of Singapore in the northern part of the island. The swampy lands were filled in the 1920s, with British planner C. E. Wood placed in charge for the construction of an airbase. In 1929, the Seletar Airbase was officially opened,functioning
THE COLONIAL BUNGALOWS AND “COUNTRY” ROADS AT SEMBAWANG A reminder of Singapore's colonial past, there are more than 400 colonial houses, or sometimes known as the black and white houses, still standing in different parts of Singapore. One large cluster of Singapore's colonial houses are located at the northern side, near Sembawang Shipyard. The others are distributed at Seletar and Portsdown vicinity as FROM VILLAGES TO FLATS (PART 3) From Villages to Flats (Part 3) – The Traditional Shophouses. Shophouses are commonly found in many historic cities and towns of the Southeast Asian countries, but the shophouses in Singapore and Malaysia are more similar in their architectural styles and designs, largely due to the two nations’ historical links. JURONG HILL OBSERVATORY TOWER Not many people are aware that there is a 60m-tall Jurong Hill, originally known as Bukit Peropok, situated beside the Jurong Bird Park. Entering via Jalan Ahmad Ibrahim, one can walk up the gentle slope and access the 18m-tall three-storey spiral Jurong Hill Observatory Tower that is standing on top of the hill. A $200,000 SENTOSA BLAKANG MATI ARTILLERY BARRACK Located at Gunner Lane, off Artillery Road, of present-day Sentosa, Blakang Mati Artillery Barrack was built in 1904. The former British stronghold was named after the island where it was established. Pulau Blakang Mati, which means "behind death" in Malay, would be renamed as Sentosa in 1970 as a redevelopment project to turn the island ROYAL NAVAL KRANJI WIRELESS STATION 1960S royal naval kranji wireless station 1960s. By Remember Singapore | Published July 26, 2013 | Full size is 550 × 434 pixels. accommodation barracks for the radio station crew at Kranji 1937. royal naval kranji wireless station entrance 1970s. Bookmark thepermalink .
THE COLONIAL CHARMS OF WESSEX ESTATE’S BLACK AND WHITE Even as the rapid development of the one-north biomedical, media and other engineering industries creep towards its doorstep, a walk around Wessex Estate, off Portsdown Road, still makes one feel he has travelled back in time. Wessex Estate's clusters of colonial-style black and white houses were mostly built in the 1930s and 1940s. Madeup
NOSTALGIC COLOURED PHOTOS OF FORMER CHONG PANG VILLAGE The old Westhill Estate, located at Sembawang Road 13 ½ milestone, was established by Lim Chong Pang in the 1930s on his father’s former rubber plantation. Divided into several plots of land, he leased them out to the Indian labourers who were hired by the British in their construction of the naval base at Sembawang. EXPLORING THE RUINS OF SYONAN JINJA AT MACRITCHIE During the Japanese Occupation, the Japanese constructed two of their sacred sites in Singapore. One was the Syonan Chureito at the top of Bukit Batok Hill, while the other was the better-known Syonan Jinja at MacRitchite Reservoir. The Syonan Jinja - its name means "Light of the South Shrine" - was a Shinto shrine builtREMEMBER SINGAPORE
Posted on May 5, 2021 by Remember Singapore. The popular MacDonald’s outlet at Ridout Tea Garden may be closing this end of 2021. Many Singaporeans expressed a pity when the news was released not long ago, as this unique MacDonald’s with a picturesque setting has become a prominent landmark in the vicinity since 1989.REMEMBER SINGAPORE
remember the good old days The name Seah Im, to many Singaporeans, may ring a bell when they think of that popular hawker centre opposite of Harbourfront that serves delicious duck porridge, nasi goreng ayam and curry rice. It is Seah Im Road, however, a short road located off Telok Blangah Road, that gives the hawker centre its name. SELETAR CAMP & OLD LAMP POSTS Seletar Camp became operationally ready in 1928, as part of the British's tactical defence of Singapore in the northern part of the island. The swampy lands were filled in the 1920s, with British planner C. E. Wood placed in charge for the construction of an airbase. In 1929, the Seletar Airbase was officially opened,functioning
SENTOSA BLAKANG MATI ARTILLERY BARRACK Located at Gunner Lane, off Artillery Road, of present-day Sentosa, Blakang Mati Artillery Barrack was built in 1904. The former British stronghold was named after the island where it was established. Pulau Blakang Mati, which means "behind death" in Malay, would be renamed as Sentosa in 1970 as a redevelopment project to turn the island TALES OF KAMPONGS AT OLD UPPER THOMSON ROAD In the sixties and seventies, the long meandering Old Upper Thomson Road was well-known as a racing circuit for the popular Singapore Grand Prix. A lesser known fact is that it was also home to some long forgotten villages, some of which had been there since theA FORGOTTEN PAST
A Forgotten Past – A Zoo at Punggol. Contrary to popular belief, our famous Singapore Zoological Gardens (or Mandai Zoo), opened in 1973, was not the first zoo in Singapore. It is the first and only national zoo, but before it, there were already several private zoos operating in Singapore. One of the early private zoos was located in Punggol.SINGAPORE 1972
Singapore 1972. “ I visited Singapore for the first time during the summer of 1972, as part of a longer trip that also took me to Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia. At that time Singapore was a fairly new country, as it had gained independence from Malaysia on August 9,1965.
WALKING DOWN THE MEMORY LANE OF MARGARET DRIVE Margaret Drive was named after Princess Margaret (Margaret Rose, 1930-2002), the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II. Constructed in the mid-fifties, Margaret Drive was simply known by the locals as the new road, as it was the main road to serve the newly developed Queenstown housing estate. It ran through Queenstown's first two neighbourhoods, namely EXPLORING THE RUINS OF SYONAN JINJA AT MACRITCHIE During the Japanese Occupation, the Japanese constructed two of their sacred sites in Singapore. One was the Syonan Chureito at the top of Bukit Batok Hill, while the other was the better-known Syonan Jinja at MacRitchite Reservoir. The Syonan Jinja - its name means "Light of the South Shrine" - was a Shinto shrine builtA FORGOTTEN PAST
A Forgotten Past – ‘Prison on Fire’ at Pulau Senang. Many movie fans are familiar with Chow Yun-Fat’s blockbuster “Prison on Fire”, a 1987 Hong Kong classic that featured inmates rioting against the prison authorities. Few, however, are aware that a similar incident had happened in Singapore in the early sixties. THE ONCE MYSTERIOUS BEDOK AND WOODLANDS FLATS The Once Mysterious Bedok and Woodlands Flats. Singaporeans always love a good ghost story. And Block 611 of Bedok Reservoir Road provided just that 30 years back. People have always been curious of vacant houses, including Housing and Development Board (HDB) flats. One or two empty units may be normal, but not for the entire block. SELETAR CAMP & OLD LAMP POSTS Seletar Camp became operationally ready in 1928, as part of the British's tactical defence of Singapore in the northern part of the island. The swampy lands were filled in the 1920s, with British planner C. E. Wood placed in charge for the construction of an airbase. In 1929, the Seletar Airbase was officially opened,functioning
THE COLONIAL BUNGALOWS AND “COUNTRY” ROADS AT SEMBAWANG A reminder of Singapore's colonial past, there are more than 400 colonial houses, or sometimes known as the black and white houses, still standing in different parts of Singapore. One large cluster of Singapore's colonial houses are located at the northern side, near Sembawang Shipyard. The others are distributed at Seletar and Portsdown vicinity as FROM VILLAGES TO FLATS (PART 3) From Villages to Flats (Part 3) – The Traditional Shophouses. Shophouses are commonly found in many historic cities and towns of the Southeast Asian countries, but the shophouses in Singapore and Malaysia are more similar in their architectural styles and designs, largely due to the two nations’ historical links. JURONG HILL OBSERVATORY TOWER Not many people are aware that there is a 60m-tall Jurong Hill, originally known as Bukit Peropok, situated beside the Jurong Bird Park. Entering via Jalan Ahmad Ibrahim, one can walk up the gentle slope and access the 18m-tall three-storey spiral Jurong Hill Observatory Tower that is standing on top of the hill. A $200,000 SENTOSA BLAKANG MATI ARTILLERY BARRACK Located at Gunner Lane, off Artillery Road, of present-day Sentosa, Blakang Mati Artillery Barrack was built in 1904. The former British stronghold was named after the island where it was established. Pulau Blakang Mati, which means "behind death" in Malay, would be renamed as Sentosa in 1970 as a redevelopment project to turn the island ROYAL NAVAL KRANJI WIRELESS STATION 1960S royal naval kranji wireless station 1960s. By Remember Singapore | Published July 26, 2013 | Full size is 550 × 434 pixels. accommodation barracks for the radio station crew at Kranji 1937. royal naval kranji wireless station entrance 1970s. Bookmark thepermalink .
THE COLONIAL CHARMS OF WESSEX ESTATE’S BLACK AND WHITE Even as the rapid development of the one-north biomedical, media and other engineering industries creep towards its doorstep, a walk around Wessex Estate, off Portsdown Road, still makes one feel he has travelled back in time. Wessex Estate's clusters of colonial-style black and white houses were mostly built in the 1930s and 1940s. Madeup
NOSTALGIC COLOURED PHOTOS OF FORMER CHONG PANG VILLAGE The old Westhill Estate, located at Sembawang Road 13 ½ milestone, was established by Lim Chong Pang in the 1930s on his father’s former rubber plantation. Divided into several plots of land, he leased them out to the Indian labourers who were hired by the British in their construction of the naval base at Sembawang. EXPLORING THE RUINS OF SYONAN JINJA AT MACRITCHIE During the Japanese Occupation, the Japanese constructed two of their sacred sites in Singapore. One was the Syonan Chureito at the top of Bukit Batok Hill, while the other was the better-known Syonan Jinja at MacRitchite Reservoir. The Syonan Jinja - its name means "Light of the South Shrine" - was a Shinto shrine built THE ONCE MYSTERIOUS BEDOK AND WOODLANDS FLATS The Once Mysterious Bedok and Woodlands Flats. Singaporeans always love a good ghost story. And Block 611 of Bedok Reservoir Road provided just that 30 years back. People have always been curious of vacant houses, including Housing and Development Board (HDB) flats. One or two empty units may be normal, but not for the entire block. SELETAR CAMP & OLD LAMP POSTS Seletar Camp became operationally ready in 1928, as part of the British's tactical defence of Singapore in the northern part of the island. The swampy lands were filled in the 1920s, with British planner C. E. Wood placed in charge for the construction of an airbase. In 1929, the Seletar Airbase was officially opened,functioning
THE COLONIAL BUNGALOWS AND “COUNTRY” ROADS AT SEMBAWANG A reminder of Singapore's colonial past, there are more than 400 colonial houses, or sometimes known as the black and white houses, still standing in different parts of Singapore. One large cluster of Singapore's colonial houses are located at the northern side, near Sembawang Shipyard. The others are distributed at Seletar and Portsdown vicinity as FROM VILLAGES TO FLATS (PART 3) From Villages to Flats (Part 3) – The Traditional Shophouses. Shophouses are commonly found in many historic cities and towns of the Southeast Asian countries, but the shophouses in Singapore and Malaysia are more similar in their architectural styles and designs, largely due to the two nations’ historical links. JURONG HILL OBSERVATORY TOWER Not many people are aware that there is a 60m-tall Jurong Hill, originally known as Bukit Peropok, situated beside the Jurong Bird Park. Entering via Jalan Ahmad Ibrahim, one can walk up the gentle slope and access the 18m-tall three-storey spiral Jurong Hill Observatory Tower that is standing on top of the hill. A $200,000 SENTOSA BLAKANG MATI ARTILLERY BARRACK Located at Gunner Lane, off Artillery Road, of present-day Sentosa, Blakang Mati Artillery Barrack was built in 1904. The former British stronghold was named after the island where it was established. Pulau Blakang Mati, which means "behind death" in Malay, would be renamed as Sentosa in 1970 as a redevelopment project to turn the island ROYAL NAVAL KRANJI WIRELESS STATION 1960S royal naval kranji wireless station 1960s. By Remember Singapore | Published July 26, 2013 | Full size is 550 × 434 pixels. accommodation barracks for the radio station crew at Kranji 1937. royal naval kranji wireless station entrance 1970s. Bookmark thepermalink .
THE COLONIAL CHARMS OF WESSEX ESTATE’S BLACK AND WHITE Even as the rapid development of the one-north biomedical, media and other engineering industries creep towards its doorstep, a walk around Wessex Estate, off Portsdown Road, still makes one feel he has travelled back in time. Wessex Estate's clusters of colonial-style black and white houses were mostly built in the 1930s and 1940s. Madeup
NOSTALGIC COLOURED PHOTOS OF FORMER CHONG PANG VILLAGE The old Westhill Estate, located at Sembawang Road 13 ½ milestone, was established by Lim Chong Pang in the 1930s on his father’s former rubber plantation. Divided into several plots of land, he leased them out to the Indian labourers who were hired by the British in their construction of the naval base at Sembawang. EXPLORING THE RUINS OF SYONAN JINJA AT MACRITCHIE During the Japanese Occupation, the Japanese constructed two of their sacred sites in Singapore. One was the Syonan Chureito at the top of Bukit Batok Hill, while the other was the better-known Syonan Jinja at MacRitchite Reservoir. The Syonan Jinja - its name means "Light of the South Shrine" - was a Shinto shrine builtREMEMBER SINGAPORE
Posted on May 5, 2021 by Remember Singapore. The popular MacDonald’s outlet at Ridout Tea Garden may be closing this end of 2021. Many Singaporeans expressed a pity when the news was released not long ago, as this unique MacDonald’s with a picturesque setting has become a prominent landmark in the vicinity since 1989.REMEMBER SINGAPORE
remember the good old days The name Seah Im, to many Singaporeans, may ring a bell when they think of that popular hawker centre opposite of Harbourfront that serves delicious duck porridge, nasi goreng ayam and curry rice. It is Seah Im Road, however, a short road located off Telok Blangah Road, that gives the hawker centre its name. SELETAR CAMP & OLD LAMP POSTS Seletar Camp became operationally ready in 1928, as part of the British's tactical defence of Singapore in the northern part of the island. The swampy lands were filled in the 1920s, with British planner C. E. Wood placed in charge for the construction of an airbase. In 1929, the Seletar Airbase was officially opened,functioning
SENTOSA BLAKANG MATI ARTILLERY BARRACK Located at Gunner Lane, off Artillery Road, of present-day Sentosa, Blakang Mati Artillery Barrack was built in 1904. The former British stronghold was named after the island where it was established. Pulau Blakang Mati, which means "behind death" in Malay, would be renamed as Sentosa in 1970 as a redevelopment project to turn the islandA FORGOTTEN PAST
A Forgotten Past – A Zoo at Punggol. Contrary to popular belief, our famous Singapore Zoological Gardens (or Mandai Zoo), opened in 1973, was not the first zoo in Singapore. It is the first and only national zoo, but before it, there were already several private zoos operating in Singapore. One of the early private zoos was located in Punggol. TALES OF KAMPONGS AT OLD UPPER THOMSON ROAD In the sixties and seventies, the long meandering Old Upper Thomson Road was well-known as a racing circuit for the popular Singapore Grand Prix. A lesser known fact is that it was also home to some long forgotten villages, some of which had been there since theSINGAPORE 1972
Singapore 1972. “ I visited Singapore for the first time during the summer of 1972, as part of a longer trip that also took me to Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia. At that time Singapore was a fairly new country, as it had gained independence from Malaysia on August 9,1965.
WALKING DOWN THE MEMORY LANE OF MARGARET DRIVE Margaret Drive was named after Princess Margaret (Margaret Rose, 1930-2002), the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II. Constructed in the mid-fifties, Margaret Drive was simply known by the locals as the new road, as it was the main road to serve the newly developed Queenstown housing estate. It ran through Queenstown's first two neighbourhoods, namely EXPLORING THE RUINS OF SYONAN JINJA AT MACRITCHIE During the Japanese Occupation, the Japanese constructed two of their sacred sites in Singapore. One was the Syonan Chureito at the top of Bukit Batok Hill, while the other was the better-known Syonan Jinja at MacRitchite Reservoir. The Syonan Jinja - its name means "Light of the South Shrine" - was a Shinto shrine builtA FORGOTTEN PAST
A Forgotten Past – ‘Prison on Fire’ at Pulau Senang. Many movie fans are familiar with Chow Yun-Fat’s blockbuster “Prison on Fire”, a 1987 Hong Kong classic that featured inmates rioting against the prison authorities. Few, however, are aware that a similar incident had happened in Singapore in the early sixties. THE ONCE MYSTERIOUS BEDOK AND WOODLANDS FLATS The Once Mysterious Bedok and Woodlands Flats. Singaporeans always love a good ghost story. And Block 611 of Bedok Reservoir Road provided just that 30 years back. People have always been curious of vacant houses, including Housing and Development Board (HDB) flats. One or two empty units may be normal, but not for the entire block. SELETAR CAMP & OLD LAMP POSTS Seletar Camp became operationally ready in 1928, as part of the British's tactical defence of Singapore in the northern part of the island. The swampy lands were filled in the 1920s, with British planner C. E. Wood placed in charge for the construction of an airbase. In 1929, the Seletar Airbase was officially opened,functioning
THE COLONIAL BUNGALOWS AND “COUNTRY” ROADS AT SEMBAWANG A reminder of Singapore's colonial past, there are more than 400 colonial houses, or sometimes known as the black and white houses, still standing in different parts of Singapore. One large cluster of Singapore's colonial houses are located at the northern side, near Sembawang Shipyard. The others are distributed at Seletar and Portsdown vicinity as JURONG HILL OBSERVATORY TOWER Not many people are aware that there is a 60m-tall Jurong Hill, originally known as Bukit Peropok, situated beside the Jurong Bird Park. Entering via Jalan Ahmad Ibrahim, one can walk up the gentle slope and access the 18m-tall three-storey spiral Jurong Hill Observatory Tower that is standing on top of the hill. A $200,000 FROM VILLAGES TO FLATS (PART 3) From Villages to Flats (Part 3) – The Traditional Shophouses. Shophouses are commonly found in many historic cities and towns of the Southeast Asian countries, but the shophouses in Singapore and Malaysia are more similar in their architectural styles and designs, largely due to the two nations’ historical links. WALKING DOWN THE MEMORY LANE OF MARGARET DRIVE Margaret Drive was named after Princess Margaret (Margaret Rose, 1930-2002), the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II. Constructed in the mid-fifties, Margaret Drive was simply known by the locals as the new road, as it was the main road to serve the newly developed Queenstown housing estate. It ran through Queenstown's first two neighbourhoods, namely SENTOSA BLAKANG MATI ARTILLERY BARRACK Located at Gunner Lane, off Artillery Road, of present-day Sentosa, Blakang Mati Artillery Barrack was built in 1904. The former British stronghold was named after the island where it was established. Pulau Blakang Mati, which means "behind death" in Malay, would be renamed as Sentosa in 1970 as a redevelopment project to turn the islandSINGAPORE 1972
Singapore 1972. “ I visited Singapore for the first time during the summer of 1972, as part of a longer trip that also took me to Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia. At that time Singapore was a fairly new country, as it had gained independence from Malaysia on August 9,1965.
ROYAL NAVAL KRANJI WIRELESS STATION 1960S royal naval kranji wireless station 1960s. By Remember Singapore | Published July 26, 2013 | Full size is 550 × 434 pixels. accommodation barracks for the radio station crew at Kranji 1937. royal naval kranji wireless station entrance 1970s. Bookmark thepermalink .
NOSTALGIC COLOURED PHOTOS OF FORMER CHONG PANG VILLAGE The old Westhill Estate, located at Sembawang Road 13 ½ milestone, was established by Lim Chong Pang in the 1930s on his father’s former rubber plantation. Divided into several plots of land, he leased them out to the Indian labourers who were hired by the British in their construction of the naval base at Sembawang. THE ONCE MYSTERIOUS BEDOK AND WOODLANDS FLATS The Once Mysterious Bedok and Woodlands Flats. Singaporeans always love a good ghost story. And Block 611 of Bedok Reservoir Road provided just that 30 years back. People have always been curious of vacant houses, including Housing and Development Board (HDB) flats. One or two empty units may be normal, but not for the entire block. SELETAR CAMP & OLD LAMP POSTS Seletar Camp became operationally ready in 1928, as part of the British's tactical defence of Singapore in the northern part of the island. The swampy lands were filled in the 1920s, with British planner C. E. Wood placed in charge for the construction of an airbase. In 1929, the Seletar Airbase was officially opened,functioning
THE COLONIAL BUNGALOWS AND “COUNTRY” ROADS AT SEMBAWANG A reminder of Singapore's colonial past, there are more than 400 colonial houses, or sometimes known as the black and white houses, still standing in different parts of Singapore. One large cluster of Singapore's colonial houses are located at the northern side, near Sembawang Shipyard. The others are distributed at Seletar and Portsdown vicinity as JURONG HILL OBSERVATORY TOWER Not many people are aware that there is a 60m-tall Jurong Hill, originally known as Bukit Peropok, situated beside the Jurong Bird Park. Entering via Jalan Ahmad Ibrahim, one can walk up the gentle slope and access the 18m-tall three-storey spiral Jurong Hill Observatory Tower that is standing on top of the hill. A $200,000 FROM VILLAGES TO FLATS (PART 3) From Villages to Flats (Part 3) – The Traditional Shophouses. Shophouses are commonly found in many historic cities and towns of the Southeast Asian countries, but the shophouses in Singapore and Malaysia are more similar in their architectural styles and designs, largely due to the two nations’ historical links. WALKING DOWN THE MEMORY LANE OF MARGARET DRIVE Margaret Drive was named after Princess Margaret (Margaret Rose, 1930-2002), the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II. Constructed in the mid-fifties, Margaret Drive was simply known by the locals as the new road, as it was the main road to serve the newly developed Queenstown housing estate. It ran through Queenstown's first two neighbourhoods, namely SENTOSA BLAKANG MATI ARTILLERY BARRACK Located at Gunner Lane, off Artillery Road, of present-day Sentosa, Blakang Mati Artillery Barrack was built in 1904. The former British stronghold was named after the island where it was established. Pulau Blakang Mati, which means "behind death" in Malay, would be renamed as Sentosa in 1970 as a redevelopment project to turn the islandSINGAPORE 1972
Singapore 1972. “ I visited Singapore for the first time during the summer of 1972, as part of a longer trip that also took me to Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia. At that time Singapore was a fairly new country, as it had gained independence from Malaysia on August 9,1965.
ROYAL NAVAL KRANJI WIRELESS STATION 1960S royal naval kranji wireless station 1960s. By Remember Singapore | Published July 26, 2013 | Full size is 550 × 434 pixels. accommodation barracks for the radio station crew at Kranji 1937. royal naval kranji wireless station entrance 1970s. Bookmark thepermalink .
NOSTALGIC COLOURED PHOTOS OF FORMER CHONG PANG VILLAGE The old Westhill Estate, located at Sembawang Road 13 ½ milestone, was established by Lim Chong Pang in the 1930s on his father’s former rubber plantation. Divided into several plots of land, he leased them out to the Indian labourers who were hired by the British in their construction of the naval base at Sembawang.REMEMBER SINGAPORE
Posted on May 5, 2021 by Remember Singapore. The popular MacDonald’s outlet at Ridout Tea Garden may be closing this end of 2021. Many Singaporeans expressed a pity when the news was released not long ago, as this unique MacDonald’s with a picturesque setting has become a prominent landmark in the vicinity since 1989.REMEMBER SINGAPORE
remember the good old days The name Seah Im, to many Singaporeans, may ring a bell when they think of that popular hawker centre opposite of Harbourfront that serves delicious duck porridge, nasi goreng ayam and curry rice. It is Seah Im Road, however, a short road located off Telok Blangah Road, that gives the hawker centre its name. SELETAR CAMP & OLD LAMP POSTS Seletar Camp became operationally ready in 1928, as part of the British's tactical defence of Singapore in the northern part of the island. The swampy lands were filled in the 1920s, with British planner C. E. Wood placed in charge for the construction of an airbase. In 1929, the Seletar Airbase was officially opened,functioning
REMEMBER SINGAPORE
The idea to turn Sembawang Hot Spring into a recreation spot started a century ago. Back then, there were already suggestions to make use of the only natural hot spring on mainland Singapore and convert it to a hydropathic establishment, garden, spa resort or BUKIT BROWN CEMETERY Estimated to house 100,000 tombs in a vast land size of about 0.86 square kilometers, Bukit Brown Cemetery has been abandoned since its closure in 1973. It was opened in 1922 by the Municipal Council (Municipal Council oversaw the supplies of water, electricity, gas, maintenance of roads, lighting and other administrative things inSingapore before
SINGAPORE EN-BLOC FLATS Singapore En-Bloc Flats. The Selective En-Bloc Redevelopment Scheme, or SERS, was first launched in 1995 by HDB (Housing and Development Board). The objective is to select flats in the older housing estates, usually more than 25 years old, for redevelopment purposes. Residents of the selected flats are usually compensated at market values andSINGAPORE 1970S
The Disappearance of the Historic Ellenborough Street. Posted on June 15, 2020 by Remember Singapore. Ellenborough Street was laid as the road to the Ellenborough Market, built in 1845. Both were named after Lord Ellenborough, Edward Law (1790-1871), who served as the Governor-General of India between 1842 and 1844. SENTOSA BLAKANG MATI ARTILLERY BARRACK Located at Gunner Lane, off Artillery Road, of present-day Sentosa, Blakang Mati Artillery Barrack was built in 1904. The former British stronghold was named after the island where it was established. Pulau Blakang Mati, which means "behind death" in Malay, would be renamed as Sentosa in 1970 as a redevelopment project to turn the islandSINGAPORE 1972
Singapore 1972. “ I visited Singapore for the first time during the summer of 1972, as part of a longer trip that also took me to Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia. At that time Singapore was a fairly new country, as it had gained independence from Malaysia on August 9,1965.
SINGAPORE TRIVIA: A TV WORLD AT TUAS Little known to many, there is a Television (TV) World at the end of Tuas, situated just beside the Tuas Second Link checkpoint. Looking like a rundown theme park from the outside, it was mainly used by the Television Corporation Of Singapore (TCS) in the nineties as the production venue of local period dramas.. Occupying a land size equivalent to about four football fields, the TV World wasREMEMBER SINGAPORE
Posted on May 5, 2021 by Remember Singapore. The popular MacDonald’s outlet at Ridout Tea Garden may be closing this end of 2021. Many Singaporeans expressed a pity when the news was released not long ago, as this unique MacDonald’s with a picturesque setting has become a prominent landmark in the vicinity since 1989. FROM VILLAGES TO FLATS (PART 3) From Villages to Flats (Part 3) – The Traditional Shophouses. Shophouses are commonly found in many historic cities and towns of the Southeast Asian countries, but the shophouses in Singapore and Malaysia are more similar in their architectural styles and designs, largely due to the two nations’ historical links. SENTOSA BLAKANG MATI ARTILLERY BARRACK Located at Gunner Lane, off Artillery Road, of present-day Sentosa, Blakang Mati Artillery Barrack was built in 1904. The former British stronghold was named after the island where it was established. Pulau Blakang Mati, which means "behind death" in Malay, would be renamed as Sentosa in 1970 as a redevelopment project to turn the islandPALLADIUM THEATRE
Emerald Hill – A Gem at Orchard. Posted on February 26, 2021 by Remember Singapore. The beautiful Emerald Hill area today was originally a jungle when the British first arrived at Singapore. The trees were cleared between 1819 and 1836 to provide fuel for the boiling of gambier leaves. After decades of exploitation, Emerald Hill.
WALKING DOWN THE MEMORY LANE OF MARGARET DRIVE Margaret Drive was named after Princess Margaret (Margaret Rose, 1930-2002), the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II. Constructed in the mid-fifties, Margaret Drive was simply known by the locals as the new road, as it was the main road to serve the newly developed Queenstown housing estate. It ran through Queenstown's first two neighbourhoods, namely FLASHBACK 30 YEARS AGO… SINGAPORE IN 1986 The country’s budget also improved from a $1.25-billion deficit in 1985 to a $500-million deficit in 1986. Overall, Singapore posted a modest 1.8% GDP growth in 1986. The recovery was confirmed when a year later, its economic growth jumped to more than 8%. The 1985 recession, however, remained as the only time Singapore’s economy contracted A WALK THROUGH THE OLD NEIGHBOURHOOD Mention Jalan Kayu, and most Singaporeans will think of the delicious crispy roti prata. Indeed, the two large roti prata shops at Jalan Kayu, perhaps more popular and famous than the ones at Upper Thomson Road and Clementi Road, have become the representative names for this old road and neighbourhood. Jalan Kayu literally means "RoadHURRICANE HOUSE
Grand Mansions, Bungalows and Villas of the Past. Posted on February 8, 2012 by Remember Singapore. The grand mansions and villas of yesteryear might not match the likes of the modern houses owned by the rich and famous today at Nassim Road, Ridley Park, Bukit Timah or Sentosa Cove, but they certainly had their charms in . NOSTALGIC COLOURED PHOTOS OF FORMER CHONG PANG VILLAGE The old Westhill Estate, located at Sembawang Road 13 ½ milestone, was established by Lim Chong Pang in the 1930s on his father’s former rubber plantation. Divided into several plots of land, he leased them out to the Indian labourers who were hired by the British in their construction of the naval base at Sembawang. SINGAPORE TRIVIA: A TV WORLD AT TUAS Little known to many, there is a Television (TV) World at the end of Tuas, situated just beside the Tuas Second Link checkpoint. Looking like a rundown theme park from the outside, it was mainly used by the Television Corporation Of Singapore (TCS) in the nineties as the production venue of local period dramas.. Occupying a land size equivalent to about four football fields, the TV World wasREMEMBER SINGAPORE
Posted on May 5, 2021 by Remember Singapore. The popular MacDonald’s outlet at Ridout Tea Garden may be closing this end of 2021. Many Singaporeans expressed a pity when the news was released not long ago, as this unique MacDonald’s with a picturesque setting has become a prominent landmark in the vicinity since 1989. FROM VILLAGES TO FLATS (PART 3) From Villages to Flats (Part 3) – The Traditional Shophouses. Shophouses are commonly found in many historic cities and towns of the Southeast Asian countries, but the shophouses in Singapore and Malaysia are more similar in their architectural styles and designs, largely due to the two nations’ historical links. SENTOSA BLAKANG MATI ARTILLERY BARRACK Located at Gunner Lane, off Artillery Road, of present-day Sentosa, Blakang Mati Artillery Barrack was built in 1904. The former British stronghold was named after the island where it was established. Pulau Blakang Mati, which means "behind death" in Malay, would be renamed as Sentosa in 1970 as a redevelopment project to turn the islandPALLADIUM THEATRE
Emerald Hill – A Gem at Orchard. Posted on February 26, 2021 by Remember Singapore. The beautiful Emerald Hill area today was originally a jungle when the British first arrived at Singapore. The trees were cleared between 1819 and 1836 to provide fuel for the boiling of gambier leaves. After decades of exploitation, Emerald Hill.
WALKING DOWN THE MEMORY LANE OF MARGARET DRIVE Margaret Drive was named after Princess Margaret (Margaret Rose, 1930-2002), the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II. Constructed in the mid-fifties, Margaret Drive was simply known by the locals as the new road, as it was the main road to serve the newly developed Queenstown housing estate. It ran through Queenstown's first two neighbourhoods, namely FLASHBACK 30 YEARS AGO… SINGAPORE IN 1986 The country’s budget also improved from a $1.25-billion deficit in 1985 to a $500-million deficit in 1986. Overall, Singapore posted a modest 1.8% GDP growth in 1986. The recovery was confirmed when a year later, its economic growth jumped to more than 8%. The 1985 recession, however, remained as the only time Singapore’s economy contracted A WALK THROUGH THE OLD NEIGHBOURHOOD Mention Jalan Kayu, and most Singaporeans will think of the delicious crispy roti prata. Indeed, the two large roti prata shops at Jalan Kayu, perhaps more popular and famous than the ones at Upper Thomson Road and Clementi Road, have become the representative names for this old road and neighbourhood. Jalan Kayu literally means "RoadHURRICANE HOUSE
Grand Mansions, Bungalows and Villas of the Past. Posted on February 8, 2012 by Remember Singapore. The grand mansions and villas of yesteryear might not match the likes of the modern houses owned by the rich and famous today at Nassim Road, Ridley Park, Bukit Timah or Sentosa Cove, but they certainly had their charms in . NOSTALGIC COLOURED PHOTOS OF FORMER CHONG PANG VILLAGE The old Westhill Estate, located at Sembawang Road 13 ½ milestone, was established by Lim Chong Pang in the 1930s on his father’s former rubber plantation. Divided into several plots of land, he leased them out to the Indian labourers who were hired by the British in their construction of the naval base at Sembawang. SINGAPORE TRIVIA: A TV WORLD AT TUAS Little known to many, there is a Television (TV) World at the end of Tuas, situated just beside the Tuas Second Link checkpoint. Looking like a rundown theme park from the outside, it was mainly used by the Television Corporation Of Singapore (TCS) in the nineties as the production venue of local period dramas.. Occupying a land size equivalent to about four football fields, the TV World wasREMEMBER SINGAPORE
Posted on May 5, 2021 by Remember Singapore. The popular MacDonald’s outlet at Ridout Tea Garden may be closing this end of 2021. Many Singaporeans expressed a pity when the news was released not long ago, as this unique MacDonald’s with a picturesque setting has become a prominent landmark in the vicinity since 1989.REMEMBER SINGAPORE
The idea to turn Sembawang Hot Spring into a recreation spot started a century ago. Back then, there were already suggestions to make use of the only natural hot spring on mainland Singapore and convert it to a hydropathic establishment, garden, spa resort or SELETAR CAMP & OLD LAMP POSTS Seletar Camp became operationally ready in 1928, as part of the British's tactical defence of Singapore in the northern part of the island. The swampy lands were filled in the 1920s, with British planner C. E. Wood placed in charge for the construction of an airbase. In 1929, the Seletar Airbase was officially opened,functioning
JURONG HILL OBSERVATORY TOWER Not many people are aware that there is a 60m-tall Jurong Hill, originally known as Bukit Peropok, situated beside the Jurong Bird Park. Entering via Jalan Ahmad Ibrahim, one can walk up the gentle slope and access the 18m-tall three-storey spiral Jurong Hill Observatory Tower that is standing on top of the hill. A $200,000 10 LEGENDS AND MYTHS OF SINGAPORE Singapore’s myths, legends depicted in latest stamp issue. ChannelNewsAsia 01 Oct 2014. SINGAPORE: The Palembang prince that would coin the city-state’s name, and the swordfish attack that defined the Redhill and Bukit Merah area will be celebrated in SingPost’s upcoming Myths and Legends stamp issue. In a press release on Wednesday (Oct 1), SingPost said the set of eight stampsSIGLAP BLOCKS
Siglap Blocks. There are four low-rise blocks of public housing, not more than five storeys high, at the junction of East Coast Road and Siglap Road. These flats were built in 1963 by the Housing and Development Board (HDB), one of their first public housing, for the affected residents of THE COLONIAL CHARMS OF WESSEX ESTATE’S BLACK AND WHITE Even as the rapid development of the one-north biomedical, media and other engineering industries creep towards its doorstep, a walk around Wessex Estate, off Portsdown Road, still makes one feel he has travelled back in time. Wessex Estate's clusters of colonial-style black and white houses were mostly built in the 1930s and 1940s. Madeup
ROYAL NAVAL KRANJI WIRELESS STATION 1960S royal naval kranji wireless station 1960s. By Remember Singapore | Published July 26, 2013 | Full size is 550 × 434 pixels. accommodation barracks for the radio station crew at Kranji 1937. royal naval kranji wireless station entrance 1970s. Bookmark thepermalink .
A FORGOTTEN PAST
Not many Singaporeans remember this history, but there was a Vietnamese refugee camp that had existed for almost two decades at 25 Hawkins Road of Sembawang . In 1975, North Vietnam invaded the south and captured Saigon, reuniting the country under communist rule. It spelt the end of the Vietnam War, but it also caused EXPLORING THE RUINS OF SYONAN JINJA AT MACRITCHIE During the Japanese Occupation, the Japanese constructed two of their sacred sites in Singapore. One was the Syonan Chureito at the top of Bukit Batok Hill, while the other was the better-known Syonan Jinja at MacRitchite Reservoir. The Syonan Jinja - its name means "Light of the South Shrine" - was a Shinto shrine builtREMEMBER SINGAPORE
Posted on May 5, 2021 by Remember Singapore. The popular MacDonald’s outlet at Ridout Tea Garden may be closing this end of 2021. Many Singaporeans expressed a pity when the news was released not long ago, as this unique MacDonald’s with a picturesque setting has become a prominent landmark in the vicinity since 1989. FROM VILLAGES TO FLATS (PART 3) From Villages to Flats (Part 3) – The Traditional Shophouses. Shophouses are commonly found in many historic cities and towns of the Southeast Asian countries, but the shophouses in Singapore and Malaysia are more similar in their architectural styles and designs, largely due to the two nations’ historical links. SENTOSA BLAKANG MATI ARTILLERY BARRACK Located at Gunner Lane, off Artillery Road, of present-day Sentosa, Blakang Mati Artillery Barrack was built in 1904. The former British stronghold was named after the island where it was established. Pulau Blakang Mati, which means "behind death" in Malay, would be renamed as Sentosa in 1970 as a redevelopment project to turn the islandPALLADIUM THEATRE
Emerald Hill – A Gem at Orchard. Posted on February 26, 2021 by Remember Singapore. The beautiful Emerald Hill area today was originally a jungle when the British first arrived at Singapore. The trees were cleared between 1819 and 1836 to provide fuel for the boiling of gambier leaves. After decades of exploitation, Emerald Hill.
WALKING DOWN THE MEMORY LANE OF MARGARET DRIVE Margaret Drive was named after Princess Margaret (Margaret Rose, 1930-2002), the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II. Constructed in the mid-fifties, Margaret Drive was simply known by the locals as the new road, as it was the main road to serve the newly developed Queenstown housing estate. It ran through Queenstown's first two neighbourhoods, namely FLASHBACK 30 YEARS AGO… SINGAPORE IN 1986 The country’s budget also improved from a $1.25-billion deficit in 1985 to a $500-million deficit in 1986. Overall, Singapore posted a modest 1.8% GDP growth in 1986. The recovery was confirmed when a year later, its economic growth jumped to more than 8%. The 1985 recession, however, remained as the only time Singapore’s economy contracted A WALK THROUGH THE OLD NEIGHBOURHOOD Mention Jalan Kayu, and most Singaporeans will think of the delicious crispy roti prata. Indeed, the two large roti prata shops at Jalan Kayu, perhaps more popular and famous than the ones at Upper Thomson Road and Clementi Road, have become the representative names for this old road and neighbourhood. Jalan Kayu literally means "RoadHURRICANE HOUSE
Grand Mansions, Bungalows and Villas of the Past. Posted on February 8, 2012 by Remember Singapore. The grand mansions and villas of yesteryear might not match the likes of the modern houses owned by the rich and famous today at Nassim Road, Ridley Park, Bukit Timah or Sentosa Cove, but they certainly had their charms in . NOSTALGIC COLOURED PHOTOS OF FORMER CHONG PANG VILLAGE The old Westhill Estate, located at Sembawang Road 13 ½ milestone, was established by Lim Chong Pang in the 1930s on his father’s former rubber plantation. Divided into several plots of land, he leased them out to the Indian labourers who were hired by the British in their construction of the naval base at Sembawang. SINGAPORE TRIVIA: A TV WORLD AT TUAS Little known to many, there is a Television (TV) World at the end of Tuas, situated just beside the Tuas Second Link checkpoint. Looking like a rundown theme park from the outside, it was mainly used by the Television Corporation Of Singapore (TCS) in the nineties as the production venue of local period dramas.. Occupying a land size equivalent to about four football fields, the TV World wasREMEMBER SINGAPORE
Posted on May 5, 2021 by Remember Singapore. The popular MacDonald’s outlet at Ridout Tea Garden may be closing this end of 2021. Many Singaporeans expressed a pity when the news was released not long ago, as this unique MacDonald’s with a picturesque setting has become a prominent landmark in the vicinity since 1989. FROM VILLAGES TO FLATS (PART 3) From Villages to Flats (Part 3) – The Traditional Shophouses. Shophouses are commonly found in many historic cities and towns of the Southeast Asian countries, but the shophouses in Singapore and Malaysia are more similar in their architectural styles and designs, largely due to the two nations’ historical links. SENTOSA BLAKANG MATI ARTILLERY BARRACK Located at Gunner Lane, off Artillery Road, of present-day Sentosa, Blakang Mati Artillery Barrack was built in 1904. The former British stronghold was named after the island where it was established. Pulau Blakang Mati, which means "behind death" in Malay, would be renamed as Sentosa in 1970 as a redevelopment project to turn the islandPALLADIUM THEATRE
Emerald Hill – A Gem at Orchard. Posted on February 26, 2021 by Remember Singapore. The beautiful Emerald Hill area today was originally a jungle when the British first arrived at Singapore. The trees were cleared between 1819 and 1836 to provide fuel for the boiling of gambier leaves. After decades of exploitation, Emerald Hill.
WALKING DOWN THE MEMORY LANE OF MARGARET DRIVE Margaret Drive was named after Princess Margaret (Margaret Rose, 1930-2002), the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II. Constructed in the mid-fifties, Margaret Drive was simply known by the locals as the new road, as it was the main road to serve the newly developed Queenstown housing estate. It ran through Queenstown's first two neighbourhoods, namely FLASHBACK 30 YEARS AGO… SINGAPORE IN 1986 The country’s budget also improved from a $1.25-billion deficit in 1985 to a $500-million deficit in 1986. Overall, Singapore posted a modest 1.8% GDP growth in 1986. The recovery was confirmed when a year later, its economic growth jumped to more than 8%. The 1985 recession, however, remained as the only time Singapore’s economy contracted A WALK THROUGH THE OLD NEIGHBOURHOOD Mention Jalan Kayu, and most Singaporeans will think of the delicious crispy roti prata. Indeed, the two large roti prata shops at Jalan Kayu, perhaps more popular and famous than the ones at Upper Thomson Road and Clementi Road, have become the representative names for this old road and neighbourhood. Jalan Kayu literally means "RoadHURRICANE HOUSE
Grand Mansions, Bungalows and Villas of the Past. Posted on February 8, 2012 by Remember Singapore. The grand mansions and villas of yesteryear might not match the likes of the modern houses owned by the rich and famous today at Nassim Road, Ridley Park, Bukit Timah or Sentosa Cove, but they certainly had their charms in . NOSTALGIC COLOURED PHOTOS OF FORMER CHONG PANG VILLAGE The old Westhill Estate, located at Sembawang Road 13 ½ milestone, was established by Lim Chong Pang in the 1930s on his father’s former rubber plantation. Divided into several plots of land, he leased them out to the Indian labourers who were hired by the British in their construction of the naval base at Sembawang. SINGAPORE TRIVIA: A TV WORLD AT TUAS Little known to many, there is a Television (TV) World at the end of Tuas, situated just beside the Tuas Second Link checkpoint. Looking like a rundown theme park from the outside, it was mainly used by the Television Corporation Of Singapore (TCS) in the nineties as the production venue of local period dramas.. Occupying a land size equivalent to about four football fields, the TV World wasREMEMBER SINGAPORE
Posted on May 5, 2021 by Remember Singapore. The popular MacDonald’s outlet at Ridout Tea Garden may be closing this end of 2021. Many Singaporeans expressed a pity when the news was released not long ago, as this unique MacDonald’s with a picturesque setting has become a prominent landmark in the vicinity since 1989.REMEMBER SINGAPORE
The idea to turn Sembawang Hot Spring into a recreation spot started a century ago. Back then, there were already suggestions to make use of the only natural hot spring on mainland Singapore and convert it to a hydropathic establishment, garden, spa resort or SELETAR CAMP & OLD LAMP POSTS Seletar Camp became operationally ready in 1928, as part of the British's tactical defence of Singapore in the northern part of the island. The swampy lands were filled in the 1920s, with British planner C. E. Wood placed in charge for the construction of an airbase. In 1929, the Seletar Airbase was officially opened,functioning
JURONG HILL OBSERVATORY TOWER Not many people are aware that there is a 60m-tall Jurong Hill, originally known as Bukit Peropok, situated beside the Jurong Bird Park. Entering via Jalan Ahmad Ibrahim, one can walk up the gentle slope and access the 18m-tall three-storey spiral Jurong Hill Observatory Tower that is standing on top of the hill. A $200,000 10 LEGENDS AND MYTHS OF SINGAPORE Singapore’s myths, legends depicted in latest stamp issue. ChannelNewsAsia 01 Oct 2014. SINGAPORE: The Palembang prince that would coin the city-state’s name, and the swordfish attack that defined the Redhill and Bukit Merah area will be celebrated in SingPost’s upcoming Myths and Legends stamp issue. In a press release on Wednesday (Oct 1), SingPost said the set of eight stampsSIGLAP BLOCKS
Siglap Blocks. There are four low-rise blocks of public housing, not more than five storeys high, at the junction of East Coast Road and Siglap Road. These flats were built in 1963 by the Housing and Development Board (HDB), one of their first public housing, for the affected residents of THE COLONIAL CHARMS OF WESSEX ESTATE’S BLACK AND WHITE Even as the rapid development of the one-north biomedical, media and other engineering industries creep towards its doorstep, a walk around Wessex Estate, off Portsdown Road, still makes one feel he has travelled back in time. Wessex Estate's clusters of colonial-style black and white houses were mostly built in the 1930s and 1940s. Madeup
ROYAL NAVAL KRANJI WIRELESS STATION 1960S royal naval kranji wireless station 1960s. By Remember Singapore | Published July 26, 2013 | Full size is 550 × 434 pixels. accommodation barracks for the radio station crew at Kranji 1937. royal naval kranji wireless station entrance 1970s. Bookmark thepermalink .
A FORGOTTEN PAST
Not many Singaporeans remember this history, but there was a Vietnamese refugee camp that had existed for almost two decades at 25 Hawkins Road of Sembawang . In 1975, North Vietnam invaded the south and captured Saigon, reuniting the country under communist rule. It spelt the end of the Vietnam War, but it also caused EXPLORING THE RUINS OF SYONAN JINJA AT MACRITCHIE During the Japanese Occupation, the Japanese constructed two of their sacred sites in Singapore. One was the Syonan Chureito at the top of Bukit Batok Hill, while the other was the better-known Syonan Jinja at MacRitchite Reservoir. The Syonan Jinja - its name means "Light of the South Shrine" - was a Shinto shrine builtREMEMBER SINGAPORE
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* The Forgotten Former Schools at Pasir Panjang * Old School National Day’s Memorabilia * The Former Changkat Changi Schools at Changi Road 10th Milestone* Dose of Nostalgia
* A Brief Past of Ridout Tea Garden and its Popular MacDonald’s * Reminiscing the Days of Steamboats, Bowling and Arcade at MarinaSouth
* Looking for Bits and Pieces of Old Seletar * Walking Down the Memory Lane of Margaret Drive * Reminiscences of the Old Beauty World * The Idyllic Days of Changi Creek and Villages * Bras Basah Complex, Singapore’s City of Books * Tuas of Yesteryears – A Fishing Village and Seafood Restaurants * From Hock Lam’s Beef Noodles to Funan’s Computers * Traditional Provision Shops – Can They Stand the Test of Time? * Enter a World of Advertisement in Old Singapore (Part 1) * “Rediscovering” My Childhood Toys * A Different Chinese New Year Celebration * 100 Things We Love About The 80s (Part 2) * 100 Things We Love About The 80s * Our Green Heritage * Singapore’s Heritage Tree Series – Broad-Leafed Mahogany* A Forgotten Past
* A Forgotten Past – The Noah’s Ark of Pasir Panjang * The Red Butterfly – Girl Terrors of the Sixties * A Singapura Mystery – The Queenstown Shooting 1972 * A Forgotten Past – A Bank Run Incident in Singapore * A Forgotten Past – Two Decades of Chaos * A Forgotten Past – ‘Prison on Fire’ at Pulau Senang * A Forgotten Past – The Curious Case of Lim Yew Hock * A Forgotten Past – A German Deity at Ubin * A Forgotten Past – The Prisoners of Conscience * A Forgotten Past – A Zoo at Punggol * A Forgotten Past – The Last Royal Palace of Singapore * A Forgotten Past – The Days When Singapore Mafia Ruled Europe * A Forgotten Past – Vietnamese Boat People in Singapore* Sense of History
* Searching for the Remaining Old Flood Gauges in Singapore * Jalan Benaan Kapal – A Forgotten Chapter in the History of Singapore’s Ship Repair Industry * The History of Singapore’s Night Soil Bucket System * The Old Gates at Jalan Selimang and the Legacy of the Former Cycle& Carriage Chairman
* From Old Woodlands to New * A Short History of Tampines Road – Busy Junction, Customs Station and Illegal Alcohol * Toa Payoh Rise’s Past and Present * A Brief Jewish History in Singapore * Flashback 30 Years Ago… Singapore in 1986 * “Hello, Hello” The Rise and Decline of Singapore’s PublicPayphones
* _Mata.Mata_: History of The Singapore Police * Haze – A Burning Issue For Four Decades * You’ve Got Mail… Singapore’s Former/Old Post Offices * 4D, Mahjong and _Chap Ji Kee_.. History of Gambling in Singapore * Burgers, French Fries and Diet Coke* Urban Exploration
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THE FORGOTTEN FORMER SCHOOLS AT PARRY AVENUE Posted on May 18, 2021 by Remember Singapore Parry Avenue came into existence after the war but its surrounding areas were still largely undeveloped in the early fifties. The Singapore Rural Board, in 1949, prohibited pig rearing activities near Parry Avenue as it was developed as a residential area. After the mid-fifties, a network of minor roads was constructed, branching off the main Yio Chu Kang Road. Back then, a section of Chuan Hoe Avenue was called Japanese Cemetery Road, named after the cemetery in the vicinity. Parry Avenue
was further extended in the sixties. Parry Avenue Boys’ and Girls’ Schools, and Parry Government Chinese Middle School By the late fifties, numerous new primary schools were established by the Ministry of Education (MOE) to provide primary education for the growing population born after the war. At Parry Avenue were three new primary schools – Parry Avenue Boys’ School, Parry Avenue Girls’ School, and the Chinese-stream Parry Government Chinese Primary School (also known as Parry Government Chinese School, Parry Chinese School or Parry Government Chinese Middle School). They were catered to provide educational needs to the population living at Jalan Hwi Yoh, Yio Chu Kang Road, Upper Serangoon Road, Seletar Hills and Jalan Kayu. The national level of primary education remained low in the fifties. In 1958, the Education Ministry announced on the newspapers to request parents to seek admission for their children to the published list of government schools with vacancies. Parry Avenue Boys’ and Girls’ Schools were two of the schools with many vacancies. Both schools were also affiliated. It meant that the sibling of a student at Parry Avenue Boys’ School could claim affiliation and register to study at Parry Avenue Girls’ School, and vice versa. The Parry Avenue Boys’ School and Girls’ School were also among the first selected English-stream primary schools in the sixties to provide Tamil classes to the Tamil students. Tamil as the second language was continued to be offered at both schools till the eighties. The other second languages were Chinese and Malay. Both Parry Avenue Boys’ and Girls’ Schools were excellent in track and field, competing regularly in the Serangoon District Singapore Combined Primary School Sports in the sixties and had won medals in the relays, hurdles and high jumps. Its large field was often selected as the hosting venue of annual athletic meets. Both schools also won certificates of merit, along with 10 other schools, in 1968 in an inter-school cleanliness competition organised by the Singapore Tourist Association (STA), where a total of 517 schools in Singapore participated. In 1980, Parry Avenue Girls’ School was part of the 12-school choir at the Singapore Festival of Choirs held at Victoria Theatre, where they presented to the audience a range of songs made up of both Asian and Western folk melodies, such as Sarinande, Di-Tanjong Tanjong, Hallelujah Chorus, Holla Hi Holla Ho and Tiratomba. Towards the end of the performance, the 20 best singers from the 12 schools also combined to sing “Let there be peace on Earth” and “Harmony”. Parry Primary School The boys’ and girls’ schools of Parry Avenue and Parry Government Chinese Middle School were merged in 1981 to become Parry PrimarySchool.
In the same year, the new Parry Primary School was selected, along with Broadrick Primary School and three secondary schools (Anglican High, Chinese High and Nanyang Girls’ High), to be part of a pilot project for full-day school. This meant that the schools would operate on a five-day week from 730am to 230pm (for lower primary), 730am to 310pm (for upper primary) and 730am to 320pm (for secondary). The students would then carry out their extra-curricular activities (ECA) for an hour after their classes. Saturdays would be left entirely free. The Ministry of Education hoped that this scheme would keep the students in school under the guidance of their teachers. On the other hand, they would be able to have more time with their families duringthe weekends.
However, many teachers began to seek transfer out of Parry and Broadrick Primary Schools. Teaching in a full-day school meant they would spend lesser time with their families. This was because many teachers were mothers themselves. The students were also observed to be restless, tired or sleepy by the afternoons. Hence, by December 1983, the Education Ministry decided to switch the pilot project’s full-day schools back to the half-day, double-session mode. In 1983, Parry Primary School was the first non-mission school in Singapore to start a Boys’ Brigade as ECA for its students. In 2007, Parry Primary School, due to dwindling student enrollment, was merged with Xinghua Primary School at Hougang Avenue 1. Xinghua Primary School has a long history dated back to 1930 when it was founded as Sing Hua School at Lim Tua Tow Road. It was relocated to Hougang and renamed as Xinghua in 1984. In 2000, Xinghua Primary School had a brief temporary relocation to Parry Avenue. Another school, Charlton Primary School at Aroozoo Avenue, was also merged with Xinghua Primary School in 2003. Parry Secondary School The fourth school at Parry Avenue was Parry Secondary School. It was established in 1967 (but was officially opened on 3 July 1968 by Sia Kah Hui, then-Parliamentary Secretary to the Labour Minister). Parry Secondary School was opened at the same period with two other new government secondary schools in Singapore – Toh Tuck Secondary School at Toh Tuck Road and Changkat Changi Secondary School at Jalan Tiga Ratus, off Changi Road. Between the late sixties and the early seventies, when the National Service was still at its infancy, due to a lack of training centres, Parry Secondary School was utilised to provide basic police training course for the Vigilante Corps. Parry Secondary School proved itself as a contender in badminton, regularly participating in the Serangoon district badminton championships against other secondary schools. Its students also took part in inter-secondary school track and field events, such as high jumps, as well as football competitions. The secondary school shared the large field with its neighbouring primary schools. Parry Secondary School’s Art Society and Home Economics Club made the headlines in 1978 when they held a “Art and the Home” exhibition at the Toa Payoh Library, showcasing their elegant and practical design works in home accessories. They would later take part in another art exhibition in 1980 at the National Museum YoungPeople’s Gallery.
The premises of Parry Secondary School was used several times for Singapore’s General Elections. In the 1972 election, it was one of the 10 nomination and votes-counting centres. The electoral division it represented was made up of Jalan Kayu, Nee Soon, Punggol, Sembawang, Serangoon Gardens and Upper Serangoon. It was subsequently used again as a nomination and polling centre in the 1976, 1980 and1984 elections.
The Education Ministry introduced in 1972 the “instant school” scheme to Parry Secondary School and three other secondary schools (Monk’s Hill Secondary School, Rangoon Road Secondary School and Chai Chee Secondary School). It was due to an unexpected surge in the number of primary school students passing the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE). In 1971, 47,000 or 53% of the students passed PSLE. The number increased to 53,000 or 62% a year later. To accommodate the additional 6,000 students, the four secondary schools had to hold additional classes at their respective primary schools – Parry Secondary School/Parry Government Chinese Primary School, Monk’s Hill Secondary School/Bukit Tunggal Malay School, Rangoon Road Secondary School/Joo Avenue Primary School and Chai Chee Secondary School/Siglap Malay School. The new secondary one students would take their English, second languages and mathematics classes at the primary school premises, while making the trips back to their secondary schools’ labs and workshops for the science and technical lessons. This issue was gradually eased after Singapore built more secondary schools in the seventies. In 1976, Parry Secondary School celebrated its 10-year anniversary, attended by guest-of-honour Sia Kah Hui, the former Minister of State(Labour).
The eighties saw a significant population shift to the new towns. Also, due to dwindling student enrollment, in 1984, Parry Secondary School and Hwi Yoh Secondary School were merged to form Peicai Secondary School. The new secondary school’s name, picked by the Education Ministry, aimed to reflect the histories of the two merged schools – Parry was “Pei Li” in Chinese, and Hwi Yoh was “Xi Cai”. Hence, the two names combined to form “Pei Cai” which means “nurture of talents”. The new Peicai Secondary School was established in 1984 at the former premises of Hwi Yoh Secondary School, whereas Parry Secondary School officially walked into history. The campus of Parry Secondary School was then taken over by Rosyth School, which was located along thenearby Rosyth Road.
Established in 1956, Rosyth School became one of Singapore’s four primary schools to host the Gifted Education Program in the mid-eighties. Due to this, its old school buildings at Rosyth road were unable to accommodate the rising number of students. At Parry Avenue, Rosyth School operated for 17 years before it shifted again to Serangoon North Avenue 4 in 2001. The former Parry schools were no longer in operation, but their premises at Parry Avenue still exist. The school buildings are currently left vacant, while the large school field is occasionally used by the nearby residents for dog walking. Published: 18 May 2021Posted in General ,
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A BRIEF PAST OF RIDOUT TEA GARDEN AND ITS POPULAR MACDONALD’S Posted on May 5, 2021 by Remember Singapore The popular MacDonald’s outlet at Ridout Tea Garden may be closing this end of 2021. Many Singaporeans expressed a pity when the news was released not long ago, as this unique MacDonald’s with a picturesque setting has become a prominent landmark in the vicinity since 1989. The Ridout Tea Garden’s history began even earlier as Queenstown Japanese Garden. It was 1970 when a small Japanese garden was first built at its current location. A typical Japanese-style garden or park was not new in Singapore. Alkaff Lake Gardens was built by the wealthy Alkaff family in the 1920s as the first Japanese garden in Singapore. It lasted until 1949 when it was sold, with the site redeveloped over the years to become Sennett Estate. A larger and better known Japanese Garden was created at Jurong in the late sixties and officially openedin 1973.
Queenstown Japanese Garden became a popular leisure venue for the nearby residents, with occasional events such as photographic competitions organised by the Queenstown Community Centre. It also consisted of 23 shops that sold a wide variety of consumer products such as furniture, sports equipment, clothes, electronic goods as well as food and beverages. One eatery, called Queen’s Garden Restaurant, offered both Western and Chinese cuisines. The Queenstown Japanese Garden, however, was destroyed in a fire in June 1978. Almost all the shops had gone up in smokes, resulting in an estimated total cost of $1 million in damages. Only the electronic goods shop, stocked with $200,000 worth of equipment at the time of the disaster, was fortunately spared. It, however, could not survive for long as much of the garden was in ruins. With the crowds gone, the shop was the last to move out of the garden. In 1980, the Housing and Development Board (HDB) decided to rebuild the area with another garden. $500,000 was pumped into the project, which aimed to construct another park with the popular Japanese vibe. The building – formerly occupied by the shop spared from the fire disaster – was reworked and converted into a new single-storey tea house designed with a double-slope roof and installed with wooden and plexiglass sliding doors. A pond with beautifully landscaped gardens, footpaths and bridges was also created. Unlike the former Queenstown Japanese Garden, there would be no shops for the new garden. Instead it was to be leased out to private operators as two unique eating places that could accommodate about 300customers.
Named Ridout Tea Garden, after the nearby Ridout Road, the change of name signified the birth of a brand new place of interest as well as to avoid confusion with the Japanese Garden at Jurong. The name origin of Ridout Road came from Major General Sir Dudley Ridout (1866-1941), the British commanding officer of the Malaya Command in the 1910s and1920s.
When it was opened in 1980, the concept of Ridout Tea Garden was well-received but the crowds commonly seen at the former Queenstown Japanese Garden were absent, likely due to the lack of shopping amenities. There were some snack kiosks but it was a stark contrast compared to its popular past in the seventies. Hence, in 1981, Kentucky Fried Chicken was invited to set up an outlet at Ridout Tea Garden, where the authority hoped that the popular fast food could attract the crowds to return. In 1983, Ridout Tea Garden was one of the several filming locations for the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation’s (SBC) six-episode Army Series drama, which told the stories of eight young men enlistedin the
Singapore Armed Forces (SAF). MacDonald’s eventually replaced Kentucky Fried Chicken at Ridout Tea Garden in 1989, and, after going strong for 32 years, is currently one of Singapore’s oldest MacDonald’s outlets, after the closure of the other decades-old outlets at Marine Cove and King Albert Park in 2012 and 2014 respectively. Today, the oldest MacDonald’s restaurant in Singapore is the one at People Park’s Complex, which opened since 1979. Ridout Tea Garden’s Macdonald’s shares the premises with two other tenants – a Thai restaurant named Bobo (but was closed in 2020) and Far East Flora, a plant nursery. To many, when it eventually closes, this unique MacDonald’s will be a place made up of many fond memories. A common place where students spent hours doing their homework. Where early office-goers grabbed their breakfasts. And where friends met for suppers. Also not forgetting the football fans who crowded here to cheer for their teams during the late night live telecast of the World Cup matches in 2010. Published: 5 May 2021Posted in Exotic ,
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SINGAPORE’S HERITAGE TREE SERIES – BROAD-LEAFED MAHOGANY Posted on April 21, 2021 by Remember Singapore Launched on 17 August 2001, the Heritage Tree Scheme advocates the conservation of the old mature trees in Singapore that have beautified the country’s landscapes and served as green landmarks for decades. Open to the public, anyone can nominate trees to be considered asheritage trees
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as long as the trees have a girth (trunk circumference) of more than 5m and have perceived values in botanical, social, historical, cultural and aesthetical aspects. Till date, a total of 263 trees in Singapore have been given the heritage tree statusby
the National Parks Board (NParks). One of the heritage trees is the broad-leafed mahogany (scientific name: _swietenia macrophylla)._ Introduced to Malaya and Singapore from Central and South America in 1876, the broad-leafed mahogany, a native from Honduras, has been a popular roadside tree. It possesses a dense crown of dark glossy leaves, and can grow up to 30m tall. Its small flowers are greenish-yellow in colour and have a faint scent. The fruits are large brown woody pods of about 10 to 15cm long. When ripe, they split open to release dozens of flat winged seeds. The broad-leafed mahogany’s densely-grained timber is highly valued for the manufacturing of furniture, panelling and musical instruments. Its fruits are also sometimes used as native medicine for diabetestreatment.
A total of nine broad-leafed mahoganies with heritage tree status can be found at Seletar Airport (five), Tanglin (one) and Sentosa (three). The ones at Seletar were planted when the Seletar West Camp was developed in the 1930s. While they had probably provided the shade along the passageway for the British servicemen in the past, they are now the shade trees at the Singapore Youth Flying Club premises. The Seletar broad-leafed mahoganies were endorsed as one of Singapore’s heritage trees in 2003. Besides the broad-leafed mahogany, there are also the African mahogany (scientific name: _khaya nyasica; _introduced to Singapore in the late seventies) and West Indices mahogany (scientific name: s_wietenia mahogani_) trees in Singapore. Published: 21 April 2021Posted in Exotic |
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A FORGOTTEN PAST – THE NOAH’S ARK OF PASIR PANJANG Posted on April 12, 2021 by Remember Singapore Once located at Pasir Panjang Road 7¼ milestone (formal address was 189 West Coast Road), the zoo, dubbed as the Noah’s Ark of Pasir Panjang, was opened during the Chinese New Year period in 1957 by Tong Seng Mun (born 1920), a wildlife dealer and owner of Chop Wah On, Singapore’s oldest medical oil company located at Pagoda Street. Chop Wah Oh was established by Tong Chee Leong, Tong Seng Mun’sfather, in 1916.
After his studies, Tong Seng Mun worked at Singapore’s police department. In 1942, he quitted his job to inherit his father’s medical oil company. A dealer and avid collector of wild animals, he even kept a tiger cub named Margaret at Chop Wah Oh, which led to a humorous incident in the sixties.
Tong Seng Mun would later realise his dreams of his own zoo opened at Pasir Panjang in the fifties. Occupying a size of 2 hectares (20,000 square metres), the Pasir Panjang zoo, facing the sea, was named Singapore Miniature Zoo and housed many large animals such as sun bears, lions, panthers, camels, tapirs, penguins, orangutans, birds of paradise and 50 tanks of tropical fish. It even had a baby rhinoceros and a baby elephant. A 90kg sea lion was specially imported from Holland in 1956 for the zoo. Costing a grand $3,000, the sea lion was also featured at Singapore Aquarists Society’s fish exhibition held at the HappyWorld stadium.
The Singapore Miniature Zoo was opened daily from 9am to 7pm, and charged admission fees of 50c and 20c for adults and children respectively. In 1958, more than a year after the zoo was opened, it was almost forced to close down due to debts. With his pet shop business in England running into issues, Tong Seng Mun incurred a $3,500 debt that nearly saw his zoo’s animals auctioned off for repayments. Tong Seng Mun eventually managed to settle his debt and continue the Singapore Miniature Zoo. Tong Seng Mun also faced some pressure from the World League of Animal Lovers International, which deplored the cruel treatment of monkeys being shipped overseas. Many of the animals were often found dead at the end of the long shipments. Tong Seng Mun proposed several points, including veterinary checks, sufficient food, issuing of import and export permits and registration of animal dealers by the government, to improve the wildlife trades. The Singapore Miniature Zoo operated for nearly 10 years and was a popular attraction along Pasir Panjang until it was eventually closed in the sixties, affected by the new regulations of internationalwildlife trade.
Before the establishment of the Singapore Zoo at Mandai in 1973, Singapore had several private zoos that were opened to the public. Local Chinese businessman Hoo Ah Kay’s Whampoa Gardens had a menagerie-like collection of animals in the mid-19th century. Between 1875 and 1905, there was a miniature zoo at the Singapore Botanic Gardens, consisted of orangutans, a tiger, leopard, emu and slothbear.
Indian merchant William Basapa opened a zoo at Punggol in 1928, but itwas closed
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destroyed during the Second World War. The Tampines zoo, opened in 1954, boasted of various wildlife such as crocodiles, leopards, tapirs, snakes and the large, flightless cassowaries. Another Punggol zoo was started by Chan Kim Suan and his brothers in 1963. It lasted until the early seventies as the last private zoo in Singapore. When interviewed by the Free Press in 1957, Tong Seng Mun explained that his life ambition was to get the Singapore government interested in establishing a permanent zoological garden for the colony. Although his own zoo was closed in the sixties, he remained passionate in thewildlife.
In the sixties, there were feedbacks from the public and experts regarding a state-run zoo in Singapore. Different views were discussed and debated, such as the zoo’s educational value to the people, whether it would be a boost to the country’s tourism, and the possible high costs of operation and maintenance. Some also opined that caged animals were a cruel act. The experienced Tong Seng Mun was later engaged as the consultant for Van Kleef Aquarium (1955-1991), Jurong Bird Park (opened in 1971) and the Singapore Zoo (opened in 1973). In 2014, the Tong family donated many digital copies of the former Singapore Miniature Zoo photographs to the National Archives of Singapore. Published: 12 April 2021Posted in Historic
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SEARCHING FOR THE REMAINING OLD FLOOD GAUGES IN SINGAPORE Posted on March 28, 2021 by Remember Singapore Located at the junction of Cambridge Road and Carlisle Road, this old one-metre flood gauge serves as a reminder of the frequent floods that occurred in this vicinity especially in the seventies. Such flood gauges were installed at many low-lying areas in Singapore in the past, as a means to record the depths of the waters and the severity of the floods. Not many are left standing today. Another one can be found along Commonwealth Avenue, near the MRT station, but its wooden frame and markings are in relatively poor conditions as compared to the Cambridge Road one. In tropical Singapore, rainfall is plentiful and thunderstorms are common. On average, it rains 167 days a year (a rainy day is defined when the total daily rainfall reaches at least 0.2mm), with Novembers and Decembers receiving the largest amount of rainfall. According to the National Environment Agency (NEA), between 1981 and 2020, the annual rainfall in Singapore averaged 2166mm.
The wet climate means that Singapore has always been affected by floods. The particularly bad ones occurred, on records, in 1935, 1954, 1955, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1974, 1978, 1980, 1984, 1985, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2010, 2011 and 2013. The flooding often caused disruption of services, power failures, traffic congestions, damaged properties, and, in the worst scenarios, loss of lives. For example, one of the worst floods in Singapore’s history occurred on 11 December 1969, a Hari Raya holiday. Incessant heavy rains led to many parts of Singapore to become severely flooded, with water depths almost at the waist’s level. Electricity and telephone lines were cut, whereas farms were drowned and poultry swept away. There were several deaths, caused by the landslides and fallen trees. The government launched Operation Rehabilitation, made up of food distributions, rent subsidies and other aids to the affected residents and farmers to help them resume their lives and work back to normal. Major clean-ups were also carried out to remove piles of debris accumulated during the floods. Another flood disaster happened on the early morning of 7 September 1974. Three hours of torrential rain led to a 38mm accumulation of rainfall, recorded by the Paya Lebar meteorological station. The low-lying Jalan Besar and Rochor areas were hit badly – at one stage, the floods there were almost 2 feet (61cm) deep. Many houses at Cambridge Road, Geylang Serai and Bukit Timah were flooded, forcing their residents to move out temporarily. Hundreds of cars at the downtown and city areas were stranded, with huge traffic jams reported during the morning peak hours. In December 1978, thunderstorms again caused disastrous flooding at the areas from Bishan to Potong Pasir. This time, the floods claimed seven lives, thousands of pigs and poultry and destroyed large areasof farms and crops.
Since the early seventies, almost $2 billion had been invested to improve Singapore’s drainage infrastructure. A drainage master plan was drawn in the mid-seventies by the Ministry of Environment. Major diversion canals were constructed. A large canal, for instance, was constructed at Ulu Pandan in 1970 as part of the anti-flood scheme. New towns and housing estates developed in the seventies were also designed with better drainage networks. By the late eighties, things had significantly improved. Further enhancements were carried out after 2000. The Marina Barrage, opened in 2008, is equipped with pumps to flush out the water into the sea during thunderstorms. In many of newer buildings, detention tanks and retention ponds were also installed to slow down the flow of water, hence preventing the overloading of the drainage network within a short period of time. The Public Utility Board (PUB) has also installed water level sensors and CCTVs at numerous canals and drains,
providing the public with quick updates of possible flash floods. Today, flash floods still occur due to sudden surge of rainfalls, but the waters tend to subside quickly. These new advanced devices are a stark contrast as compared to the old flood gauges that were once found in the different parts of Singapore. Published: 28 March 2021 Posted in General | Tagged Bishan , Bukit TimahRoad , Cambridge
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EXPLORING THE REMNANTS OF KAY SIANG BUNKERS Posted on March 10, 2021by
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The Kay Siang Bunkers have been hidden in the small forested area between Kay Siang Road and Margaret Road for decades. Probably built in the 1940s by the British as storage places for ammunition and other supplies, there are a total of three bunkers, designed with double doors for reinforced protection against impacts and bombings. These bunkers might be supporting facilities for the nearby Buller Camp at Alexandra Road, a former British military camp in this vicinity. The Alexandra Road area was heavily damaged during the Second World War when the British’s Normanton oil depot was set on fire in an attempt to stop the Japanese from advancing. The desperate bet failed as the thick smoke engulfed the nearby villages instead. When the enemies took over the place, they brutally massacred the remaining residents in the villages. It was unknown whether or how the bunkers served their purposes during the war. After the war, the Kay Siang bunkers were presumably forgotten and graduallyconsumed by nature.
In the early fifties, Buller Camp, along with the villages, farms, cemeteries and swamps in the vicinity, was demolished and cleared by the Singapore Improvement Trust (SIT) for the development of a new Queenstown housing estate. Margaret Drive was constructed as the mainroad
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the new Princess Estate. Despite the development, the Kay Siang Bunkers remained undisturbed. The surrounding area around the bunkers saw some changes over the decades. Several schools, such as Hua Yi Government Chinese Middle School, Tanglin Girls’ School, Strathmore School and Kay Siang School, emerged around the bunkers and its forested home in the late fifties and sixties. Some students of these schools might have discovered and explored the bunkers. Townsville Institute was established in the late eighties, occupying the former site of Hua Yi Government Chinese Middle School. It had a stadium built just a stone away from the bunkers. The campus later became the headquarters for the Movement For The Intellectually Disabled. By the late 2000s, the premises, except the stadium, were torn down. A new Housing and Development Board (HDB) cluster of flats named Skyparc was developed. On the opposite side of Kay Siang Road are some of the pre-war colonial houses, built and used by the British likely in the 1930s. Most of the houses have been used as exclusive private residencestoday.
Note: Interested explorers of Kay Siang Bunkers need to watch out for safety as the decades-old buildings, especially the remaining façade of the first bunker, may be structurally unstable. Published: 10 March 2021Posted in Historic
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EMERALD HILL – A GEM AT ORCHARD Posted on February 26, 2021 by Remember Singapore The beautiful Emerald Hill area today was originally a jungle when the British first arrived at Singapore. The trees were cleared between 1819 and 1836 to provide fuel for the boiling of gambier leaves. After decades of exploitation, Emerald Hill became a barren wasteland, and was leased in 1837 to William Cuppage (1807-1872), who was originally a postal clerk in Singapore in the early 1830s and had worked his way up to become the Acting Postmaster-General in 1856. In 1845, William Cuppage was granted the permanent ownership of Emerald Hill, where he planted vast nutmeg plantations and built two villas for himself called Erin Lodge and Fern Cottage. The nutmegs, however, failed in the 1860s due to diseases and falling prices. When Cuppage died in 1872, he left the plantations to his three daughters. One of Cuppage’s son-in-law Edwin Koek, a lawyer and Municipal Commissioner, purchased the estate. Both Cuppage Road and Koek Road were named after William Cuppage and Edwin Koekrespectively.
In the following decades, Emerald Hill had changed ownership several times. In 1900, the estate was purchased by local Chinese businessmen Seah Boon Kang and Seah Eng Kiat, who then carved up the land into smaller lots and sold them to individual owners who built the first terrace houses and shophouses at Emerald Hill. Many of these early terrace houses of Emerald Hill were designed in Georgian and Regency styles, with added touches of Chinese Baroque elements especially in their façades, wall ornaments and ceramic floor tiles. The Emerald Hill of the early 20th century soon became a residential enclave for the wealthy local Chinese and Peranakan businessmen and their families. During this period, a typical Emerald Hill terrace house would cost about $3,000. It was a bustling place then, where many rickshaws and horse drawn carriages plied the roads. The Orchard Road Market, situated between Cuppage Road and Koek Road,was the go-to place
for the Emerald Hill residents to get their fresh produce and groceries. There was also the Singapore Cold Storage that catered mainly to the European residents living in the Orchard area. Opening in 1905 at the site of present-day Centrepoint, it was Singapore’sfirst supermarket.
A railway bridge also once existed near Emerald Hill. Known as the Orchard Road Railway Bridge, it was part of the railway system between Tank Road and Woodlands Jetty. In 1932, the Tank Road Station and Orchard Road Railway Bridge were subsequently demolished after the railway line was diverted to the Keppel Road Station. The increasingly crowded Emerald Hill saw more street hawkers moving into the area to sell food and other stuff. The poor hygienic conditions of the hawkers and street eventually led to a typhoid outbreak in 1934, affecting as many as 11 adults and 13 school children, some of whom died. In 1921, the Municipal Commission agreed to convert Emerald Hill Road into a public street. Six years later, Hullet Road, a short street connecting Emerald Hill Road to Cairnhill Road, was properly paved and also declared a public street. In 1937, Cairnhill Road was extended at its northern end to link up with Emerald Hill Road. The road extension was named Cairnhill Circle. To the local residents, Emerald Hill Road was fondly known as _tang leng tiam yia yee hang_ (“Tanglin Cinema Street” in Teochew). The cinema referred to the Pavilion Theatre (previously known as Palladium Theatre) that operated between 1914 and 1971 near Emerald Road Hill. The location of the cinema today is occupied by Orchard Gateway. In 1925, the Singapore Chinese Girls’ School moved from Hill Street to the Orchard area, where its new $65,000 campus was located in the parcel of land bounded by Orchard Road, Emerald Hill Road, Cairnhill Road and Hullet Road. The Singapore Chinese Girls’ School was founded in 1899 as an all-girls Peranakan school. To support its relocation plan, Dr Lim Boon Keng, one of the co-founders of the school, agreed to sell his parcel of land at Orchard to the government, which subsequently exchanged it with the Singapore Chinese Girls’ School’s HillStreet premises.
The Singapore Chinese Girls’ School stayed at the Emerald Hill area until 1994 when it moved to Dunearn Road. Its old school campus was then taken over by Chatsworth International School in 1998. The Second World War impacted Emerald Hill just like any other places in Singapore. After the war, the wealthy Straits Chinese’s exclusive residential enclave had lost its upper class shine; the terrace houses and shophouses had become dilapidated and some were left vacant. Robberies and house break-ins were rampant at Emerald Hill in thefifties.
During the post-war period in the late 1940s, supplies of the basic necessities were extremely tight. In 1946, hundreds had to queue along Emerald Hill Road to get their milk at the Singapore Cold Storage, where the controlled quota was fixed at nine tins of condensed milkper person.
Some of the more prominent former residents of Emerald Hill Road were former Municipal Commissioners Seow Poh Leng and Chin Chye Fong (1892-1965). There were also Heng Pang Kiat, a Justice of Peace, and Chan Sze Jin (1886-1948), a Straits-born Chinese lawyer and member of Executive and Legislative Councils. More than 500 people attended Chan Sze Jin’s funeral when the procession left his Emerald Hill Road house on 27 September 1948. The _Tai Suah Ting_ cemetery at the Orchard area was exhumed and cleared in the mid-fifties. Orchard, due to its excellent location and close proximity from the city area, gradually became a bustling place, with C.K. Tang Department Store opening in 1958. Supermarkets, malls and hotels began filling up Orchard from the sixties to the eighties. Despite the rapid pace of development, Emerald Hill remained a hidden and quiet sanctuary from the increasing busy main streets. In 1982, the century-old Orchard Road Market was demolished to make way for the further development of Orchard Road into a shopping belt. Peranakan Corner, at the junction between Emerald Hill Road and Orchard Road, was renamed Peranakan Place and was leased out by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) to a private entity for the promotion of Peranakan culture to both locals and tourists. In 1985, URA announced the plan of an Emerald Hill Conservation Area to be established at a cost of $2.2 million, inclusive of the restoration cost for some of the terrace houses. In the late eighties, a section of Emerald Hill Road, the short stretch that led to its junction with Orchard Road, was pedestrianised and closed off to vehicular traffic. Likewise, part of the neighbouring Cuppage Road was also converted into a pedestrianwalkway.
The Emerald Hill area was officially gazetted for conservation by URA on 7 July 1989, together with Peranakan Place and Cuppage Terrace. Most of Emerald Hill’s terrace houses were designated for private residential usage, except for a few that were granted for commercialpurposes.
While the owners were required to maintain the front façades of the housing units, in order not to compromise the overall aesthetics of the Emerald Hill’s stretch of conserved terrace houses, they were allowed to add extensions at the rear of their units to create more spaces. These extensions, however, were not allowed to be taller thanthe front façades.
Emerald Hill and Peranakan Place are part of the Orchard Road’s Heritage Trail today. Published: 26 February 2021Posted in General ,
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THE COLOURFUL LANDMARK OF SELEGIE ARTS CENTRE Posted on January 20, 2021 by Remember Singapore Tucked in the corner of Selegie Road and Prinsep Street, the three-storey wedge-shaped building is an eye-catching landmark, largely due to its odd shape and rows of window panes painted in bright cheerful colours. The formal address of this building is 30 Selegie Road, and it was likely built in the late 19th century or early 20th century as part of the row of shophouses along Prinsep Street. According to the Newspapers Archives of Singapore, the junction of Selegie Road and Prinsep Street used to have many _jinricksha_ (rickshaw) pullers, coolies and a public latrine. In the eighties, the building housed a popular _kopitiam_ at its first floor, serving delicious Indian rojak, banana leaf curry, tandoori chicken and kebabs. There was even a small yogurt bar in the coffeeshop. By the early nineties, Prinsep Street’s row of aging shophouses, affected by the urban renewal plan, were torn down. The unique wedge-shaped building was fortunately preserved, escaping the demolition plan. However, it was in a poor dilapidated state. In 1994, the National Arts Council (NAC) moved in to house several of the local arts groups, giving the pale-yellow building a new lease of life and a new name called the Selegie Arts Centre. Tenders were opened and the public was invited to set up cafes and art retail shops such as bookshops, art materials shops and music shops. The Selegie Arts Centre, since 1995, also houses the Photographic Society of Singapore as well as the Loke Wan Tho Gallery, which displays the former Cathay Organisation founder and cinema magnate’s award-winning photographs taken in the fifties. As part of the Waterloo Street Arts Belt, the Selegie Arts Centre is managed under the NAC’s Arts Housing Scheme,
which was implemented in 1985 as an effort to provide artists and arts groups in Singapore affordable spaces to carry out and develop their works, so as to contribute to an active Singapore arts scene. Besides the Waterloo Street Arts Belt, NAC also works with the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) in the designation of the Chinatown and Little India Arts Belts. Under the housing scheme, the old shophouses and disused warehouses at Chinatown and Little India are leased to many arts groups, where they help to revitalise and rejuvenate the buildings and areas. The other arts institutions and campuses around the Selegie vicinity include the Singapore Art Museum (Bras Basah Road), Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) (Bencoolen Street), Lasalle College of Arts (McNally Street), Stamford Arts Centre, Sculpture Square and Singapore Calligraphy Society (Waterloo Street). Published: 20 January 2021 Posted in General | Tagged Arts Housing Scheme, Loke Wan Tho
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THE END OF LORONG 3 GEYLANG NEIGHBOURHOOD Posted on January 6, 2021by
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The Lorong 3 Geylang terrace houses, 191 of them, had their 60-year leases ended on 31 December 2020. Began in 1960, the houses held on for six decades and eventually became Singapore’s first residential units to have met the expiry of their leases. By January 2021, all the housing units have since been vacated and taken over by the Singapore Land Authority (SLA). It is expected that the small housing estate will be redeveloped for future residential purposes. Before the sixties, Lorong 3 Geylang, running perpendicular at the start of Sims Avenue and Geylang Road, led to two villages – Kampong Koo Chye (sometimes spelt as Khoo Chye or Kuchai) and Kampong Hock Soon. Largely made up of wooden houses on stilts along one of the tributaries of Kallang River, Kampong Koo Chye was better known as it hit the news headlines in the late fifties due to a fire disaster. Fires were major concerns in the fifties. Kampong Bugis and Kampong Tiong Bahru were destroyed by large fires in 1951 and 1959 respectively. Geylang’s Lorong 1 and Lorong 3 were also sites of two notorious fire disasters in the late fifties – the lorong 1 fire consumed a small village, whereas the much larger Kampong Koo Chye at Lorong 3 was burnt down in 1958. 5 April 1958 was the fateful day for Kampong Koo Chye. A huge fire swept through 200-plus wooden huts, resulting in five deaths and 79 injuries. 379 families with 2,000 residents were rendered homeless overnight. It was Qing Ming Festival then, and a lit joss stick was believed to have carelessly dropped and caused the flames to start spreading rapidly in the strong winds. Four fire engines were quickly deployed and 300 men, made up of firefighters and the locals, fought the fire for almost three hours before the inferno could be brought under control. But by 430pm, most of the houses had been burnt to ashes. Only an evening downpour stopped the fire from spreading to a nearby Lee Rubber factory, where 3,000 tonnes of rubber were stored. It was then Singapore’s worst post-war fire disaster. In the aftermath, many residents were seen trying to salvage their charred belongings in the smouldering wreckage of their former homes. Voluntary organisations and social welfare workers arrived to help out with the food, clothing and medical distribution. More than 2,000 homeless people were temporarily housed at Geylang English School. Some of the residents managed to seek refuge with their relatives atother _kampongs_.
To assist the victims affected by the disaster, the Singapore City Council pledged $100,000 to a newly set-up relief fund. A further $200,000 was collected through donations from the public and various organisations. The Singapore government, under Chief Minister Lim Yew Hock, contributed to the fund by matching the donation amount dollar to dollar. Much of the funds went to help the victims as well as the construction of a number of low-cost low-rise houses in the vicinity. The houses – their construction would eventually cost $900,000 – were rapidly built by the Singapore Improvement Trust (SIT). Slightly more than 200 double-storey housing units were completed by 1960. Located at the end of Lorong 3 Geylang, the new residential estate – its land were acquired from private owners – was named Lorong Tiga Estate (_tiga_ is three in Malay). Contracted with 60-year leases, each house was available for $5,000 with installment plans offered. 1,300 residents from the Kampong Koo Chye fire disaster had chosen to move into Lorong Tiga Estate. For the others, more than 100 families shifted to the SIT flats at Kallang and Queenstown. The rest decided to return to the rebuilt Kampong Koo Chye. Lorong Tiga Estate was made up of 14 blocks, numbered Block 3 to 16. The blocks consist of five to 13 housing units. The Housing and Redevelopment Board (HDB) took over SIT in 1960, including all of its existing residential leases. In the seventies, Kallang River and its tributaries were aligned, lengthened and canalised. New roads in Upper Boon Keng Road, Geylang Bahru and Kallang Bahru were built, serving the up and coming Kallang and Geylang Bahru industrial estates. Kampong Koo Chye walked into history by the mid-seventies, while new HDB flats were developed near Lorong Tiga Estate, including two HDB point blocks (Block 38 and 39) that were built beside the estate in 1976. Fast forward to 60 years later, in 2020, the leases of the Lorong Tiga Estate houses finally came to an end. Before they were vacated, most owners had already moved out. At the end of 2020, only 40 housing units were still occupied by their owners. 16 had been converted for religious purposes, while 135 were used as dormitories for foreignworkers.
Most of the HDB flats carry a 99-year lease. In the past two decades, many older flats underwent the Selective En-Bloc Redevelopment Scheme(SERS) and
were demolished and replaced by new public housing. However, there are many other old flats that do not fall under the SERS. The flats at Stirling Road, for example, were built in 1968 and are currently one of the oldest batches of flats in Singapore. Tens of thousands more were built in the seventies. It will be a major challenge when the clock starts ticking towards the lease expiry of these flats. Published: 6 January 2021 Posted in General | Tagged Geylang Bahru, Geylang Bahru
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BIDDING FAREWELL TO DAKOTA CRESCENT FLATS Posted on December 2, 2020 by Remember Singapore Dakota Crescent and its low-rise flats were built by the Singapore Improvement Trust (SIT) in 1958, two years before the formation of the Housing and Development Board (HDB). It was then known as the Old Kallang Airport Estate, a massive $2,250,000 housing project prided by SIT to be “_one of the most pleasant and easily accessible suburbs in the colony, served by first class road and frequent bus services_“.
Abdul Hamid bin Haji Jumat (1916-1978), the Minister for Local Government, Lands and Housing officiated the opening of the housing estate with a commemorative plaque in July 1958. Old Airport Road was constructed as the main road leading to the housing estate, connected to a small network of minor roads named Jalan Satu, Jalan Dua, Jalan Tiga, Jalan Empat, Jalan Lima and Jalan Enam (“_one_” to “_six_” in Malay). Blocks of one-, two- and three-room flats were developed on both sides of Old Airport Road, where the Dakota Crescent blocks had even block numbers. The flats on the other side of road were assigned odd block numbers. Old Kallang Airport Estate and Old Airport road were named after the defunct civilian airport located a short distance away, in which its operations were ceased in 1955. Dakota Crescent was named after Dakota DC-3, an American transport plane that once commonly did its landings at Kallang Airport. In 1946, one Dakota DC-3, belonged to the Royal Air Force (RAF), crashed at Kallang Airport in a thunderstorm. All of its passengers perished in the disaster. Residents and shopkeepers started moving into Dakota Crescent in 1958. The rental of the one-room flats were $25 per month, but increased to $40 by the early sixties. The first shops, meanwhile, were available for lease at a monthly fee of $125 to $150. In 1959, around 4,000 residents from Kampong Tiong Bahru were temporarily housed at the vacant flats after their attap and timber houses were destroyed in abig fire.
The new housing estate faced several issues in the early days. It had no public phone booths – the residents urged the Singapore Telephone Board to install one so they could get in touch with the police in times of emergency. The lifts were unreliable – one of the flats’ lift was jammed and trapped a family of nine until they were freed by the SIT’s lift operators. Street lights were installed in 1962, but only along the main Old Airport Road – the roads of Dakota Crescent, Jalan Satu, Jalan Dua and Jalan Tiga were still in the darkness at night. Other requests by some of the early residents included carparks and additional Singapore Traction Company’s bus services to the city area. Other than the lack of public amenities, the early Old Kallang Airport Estate was also plagued by frequent criminal activities such as thefts, robberies and clashes between rivaling secret society members. In the early sixties, the nearest police station was located more than 6km away. The roads were also lined with street hawkers in the sixties, causing traffic obstruction and choked drains filled withgarbage.
Despite the tough conditions, the community spirit within the estate was strong. In 1968, Old Kallang Airport Estate came in second as the nation’s cleanest estate competition organised by HDB, after hundreds of participating residents spent the morning sweeping and washing the corridors and staircases. The blocks at Dakota would win another “cleanest blocks” contest in 1995. In 1969, the small strip of land in front of Block 36 also topped HDB’s gardeningcompetition.
The popular Old Airport Road hawker centre was added to the estate in 1973, housing some of the street hawkers. The nearby Mountbatten Adult Education Board (AEB) Centre, in the seventies, provided numerous courses for the residents’ personal development and upgrading. In the early eighties, many one-room flats within the Old Kallang Airport Estate were torn down, replaced by new high-rise blocks of three- and four-room flats. At Dakota Crescent, the HDB blocks of 58, 60 and 62 were built in 1983. Schools were also built at the estate. Broadrick Secondary School and Maju Secondary School were officially opened in 1969 (In 1996, Broadrick Secondary School and Maju Secondary School were merged to form the new single-session Broadrick Secondary School). Mountbatten Primary School was merged in the eighties from Mountbatten English Primary School and Mountbatten Government Chinese Primary School (in 2001, it amalgamated with Fowlie Primary School and Haig Boys’ School to form Tanjong Katong Primary School). Another big change came in the 2000s when almost half of the Dakota Crescent flats were torn down to make way for new condominiums. The old Block 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42 SIT flats were replaced by Dakota Residences, completed in 2010. The space left behind by the demolition of Block 44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54, 56, 70 and 72 is now occupied by the Waterbank at Dakota. On the other side of Old Airport Road, only Block 13 and 21 of the original Old Kallang Airport Estate development remain till this day. In 2015, the government announced that Dakota Crescent would be slated for redevelopment under Mountbatten’s estate renewal plans. A Save Dakota Crescent group has since been formed to raise their concerns to the authority, pushing for the estate to be conserved and re-purposed for other uses. Their concerns were discussed in the parliament inOctober 2016.
The Ministry of National Development (MND) decided that Dakota Crescent’s central cluster of six flats and the iconic dove playground would be conserved and refurbished for civil and community uses, while the remaining nine blocks would be demolished and have their sites redeveloped. By end of 2017, almost 95% of Dakota Crescent’s 400 households had moved out. Many of them were longtime residents of Dakota Crescent, who grew up in the neighbourhood and had lived there for more than half a century. Some of the residents chose to move the nearby CassiaCrescent.
The demolition project of the Dakota Crescent flats was put on hold in the first half of 2020 due to the Covid-19 circuit breaker enforcement. It has since resumed in late November 2020, and it is finally time to bid farewell to the 62-year-old SIT flats. Published: 02 December 2020Posted in General ,
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