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10 Most Recent Articles
- Before Sengkang, There Were Plans for a Seletar New Town April 30, 2026
- Chye Kay Village – History, Memories and Remnants… March 31, 2026
- Searching for the Forgotten Military Insignia Plaques of Gillman Barracks January 30, 2026
- The Christmas Light-Up at Orchard Road, Since 1984 December 24, 2025
- Nostalgic Coloured Photos of Singapore’s Roadside Durian Stalls December 10, 2025
- When Soviet-Made Cars Roamed Singapore Roads October 30, 2025
- The Past, Present and Future of Standalone Public Libraries in Singapore September 29, 2025
- Those Years When We Brushed Our Teeth Together August 31, 2025
- Singapore’s Most Recognisable Logos, Then and Now (Part 1) July 31, 2025
- Stirling Road and Singapore’s Oldest HDB Flats June 30, 2025
Archive of Articles
100 Things We Love About the 80s
Our Favourite Playgrounds of Yesteryears
From Kampongs to Flats
Singapore Campaigns of the 70s/80s
Old Places in Singapore
- Ang Mo Kio Merlions
- Atbara House
- Beach Road Army Market
- Bukit Brown Cemetery
- Bukit Merah SAFRA Clubhouse
- Bukit Purmei Keramat Bukit Kasita
- Bukit Timah Nature Reserve
- Bukit Timah Turf Club
- Capitol Theatre/Building
- Central Fire Station
- Changi Commando Barrack
- Commonwealth Avenue Food Centre
- Customs Operations Command Building
- Dakota Crescent Provision Shop
- Dover Road Pelican Playground
- Ellison Building
- Esplanade Park
- Former Beach Road Police Station
- Former CID Headquarters
- Former Communicable Disease Centre (CDC)
- Former National Aerated Water Company
- Former Paya Lebar Police Station
- Former Sun Yat Sen Villa
- Geylang Serai Malay Village
- Ghim Moh Bus Terminal
- Haw Par Villa
- Hougang Rainbow Flat
- Istana Woodneuk
- Jalan Bahar Dragon Kiln
- Japanese Cemetery Park
- Jinrikisha Station
- Jurong Hill Observatory Tower
- Jurong West Nantah Arch
- Kallang National Stadium
- Kampong Lorong Buangkok
- Kampong Silat SIT Flats
- Karikal Mahal
- Katong Park Guard Sculptures
- Keppel Hill Reservoir
- Kim Keat Dinosaur Playground
- Lim Chu Kang Pier
- Lorong Chuan Overhead Bridge
- MacAlister Terrace
- MacPherson Mamak Shop
- Marine Parade Sea Breeze Lodge
- Marsiling Underpass
- Maxwell Chambers & Maxwell Chambers Suites
- Mount Sophia Tower House
- Nee Soon Post Office
- Neo Tiew Estate
- Old Bus Stops/Street Name Signage
- Old Changi Hospital
- Old Kallang Airport
- Old Tan Tock Seng Hospital
- Pasir Panjang Fort/Labrador Battery
- Pearl’s Hill Police Operational Headquarters
- People’s Park Complex
- Portsdown, Seletar & Sembawang Colonial Houses
- Pulau Ubin
- Punggol Matilda House
- Queenstown/Queensway Cinema
- Rochor Centre Coloured Flats
- Seletar Camp & Old Lamp Posts
- Sembawang Hill Estate Taxi Service Stand
- Sembawang Hot Spring
- Sentosa Blakang Mati Artillery Barrack
- Sentosa Fort Serapong
- Siglap Blocks
- Simei Beauties’ Portraits
- Singapore En-Bloc Flats
- Singapore Railway
- Sungei Road Thieves’ Market
- Taman Jurong “H-Shaped” JTC Flats
- Tan Swee Hoe’s Legacies at Batu Pahat and Singapore
- Tanglin Barracks
- Tanglin Hill Brunei Hostel
- Tanjong Pagar Railway Station
- Tiong Bahru Bird Singing Corner
- Toa Payoh Dragon Playground
- Tuas Television World
- Upper Seletar Reservoir
- Upper Serangoon Shopping Centre
- Upper Thomson Secondary & Other Abandoned Schools
- View Road Mental Hospital
- Whampoa Dragon Fountain
- Woodlands Camps/Kranji Army Barracks
- Yan Kit Swimming Complex
- Zion Road Blue Flats
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Jurong Stadium Gone Under the Wrecking Ball
Completed in 1973, the old Jurong Stadium was meant to be part of the sports and recreational amenities for a rapidly developed Jurong town in the late sixties and early seventies. Managed by the Jurong Town Corporation (JTC), the stadium … Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged Football Association of Singapore, Geylang Stadium, Jalan Besar Stadium, Jurong, Jurong Stadium, Jurong Town Corporation, Medo Coffee, National Day, National Day Parade, National Football League, Ovaltine League, Queenstown Stadium, Registry Of Vehicles, S-League, Sinchi Football Club, Singapore 1970s, Singapore 1980s, Singapore Armed Forces, Taman Jurong, Toa Payoh Stadium
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A Siglap Tale of Kee Sun Avenue and Seaside Villa
Kee Sun Avenue today is a small quiet road leading to private semi-detached houses located between Upper Changi Coast Road and Marine Parade Road. Almost a hundred years ago, this was home to an exquisite seaside villa owned by local … Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged Asiatic Petroleum Company, Ching Kee Sun, East Coast Reclamation, Industrial and Commercial Bank, Japanese Occupation, Justice Of Peace, Kee Sun Avenue, Kee Sun Drive, Kee Sun Road, Marine Parade Road, Overseas Chinese Association, Second World War, St Andrew's Autism School, St Andrew’s Community Hospital, St Andrew’s Orthopaedic Hospital, Syonan Chureito, Tay Lian Teck, Tay Lian Teck Drive, Tay Lian Teck Road, Upper Changi Coast Road, Upper East Coast Road
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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 various parts of Singapore. One large cluster of Singapore’s colonial houses is located at the … Continue reading
Posted in General, Historic
Tagged Admiralty Road West, Auckland Road, Bermuda Road, Canada Road, Commonwealth, Delhi Road, Falkland Road, Fiji Road, First World War, Goodwood Hill, Her Majesty’s Naval Base, His Majesty’s Naval Base, HMS Sembawang, Home TeamNS, Housing And Development Board, Jamaica Road, Kowloon Road, Llyod Leas Estate, Madras Road, Naval Base Road, Nepal Park, Ottawa Road, Rochester Park, Second World War, Seletar Air Base, Sembawang, Sembawang Naval Base, Sembawang Shipyard, St. Helena Road, St. John's Road, Sungei Sembawang, Sussex Estate, Terror Club, The Turning Point, Wellington Road, Wessex Estate
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15 February Commemoration and the Civilian War Memorial
Every year, on this date of 15 February, the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCCI) will organise the war memorial service in commemoration of the civilian victims of the Japanese Occupation (1942-1945). It is also the Total Defence … Continue reading
From Old Woodlands to New
The Woodlands of the early 20th century was an entirely rural area, filled with forest and mangrove swamps with clusters of attap huts, rubber plantations and farms. Over at Malaya, across the Straits of Johore, all that its residents could … Continue reading
Posted in Historic
Tagged Admiralty MRT Station, Admiralty Road West, Ang Mo Kio, Bukit Timah Expressway, Causeway Point Shopping Centre, Gambas Avenue, Housing And Development Board, Jalan Ulu Sembawang, Jalan Wak Selat, Johor Bahru, Kampong Lorong Fatimah, Kampong Melayu, Kampong Sin Min, Kampong Sungei Mandai Kechil, Kampong Wak Selat, Kranji, Kranji Road, Lorong Gambas, Mandai Tekong Village, Marsiling, Marsiling MRT Station, Marsiling Road, Naval Base Railway, North-South Line, Old Woodlands Town Centre, Public Works Department, Second World War, Sembawang Naval Base, Sembawang Shipyard, Singapore 1970s, Singapore 1980s, Singapore Bus Services, Singapore Mass Rapid Transit, Singapore Naval Base, Telok Blangah, The Causeway, Thomson-East Coast Line, Trans Island Bus Services, Woodgrove, Woodlands, Woodlands Bus Interchange, Woodlands Civil Centre, Woodlands Immigration And Customs Checkpoint, Woodlands MRT Station, Woodlands North MRT Station, Woodlands Regional Bus Interchange, Woodlands Regional Library, Woodlands Road, Woodlands South MRT Station
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Sembawang Hot Spring’s Long-Awaited Rejuvenation
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, … Continue reading
Posted in Exotic
Tagged Fraser And Neave, Gambas Avenue, Ministry Of Defence, Ministry Of National Development, Salitar Hot Spring, Seah Eng Keong, Second World War, Seletar Hot Spring, Seletaris, Sembawang Air Base, Sembawang Hot Spring, Sembawang Hot Spring Park, Singapore Hot Spring Limited, Singapore Tourism Board, Vichy Water, Zombun
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The Fate of Old New Town Secondary School
Opposite of Margaret Drive, at the junction of Queensway and Commonwealth Avenue (previously was a roundabout called Queen’s Circus), lies the former campus of New Town Secondary School. Established in 1965, the same year as Singapore’s independence, the school was … Continue reading
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Tagged Assumption English School, Baharuddin Vocational School, Benjamin Sheares, Clementi Town Secondary School, Commonwealth Avenue, Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus, Dover Road, Hua Yi Secondary School, Jek Yeun Thong, Lee Kuan Yew, Margaret Drive, New Town Secondary School, Queen's Circus, Queenstown, Queensway, Queensway Secondary School, Saint Theresa's Convent School, Singapore 1960s, Tanglin Integrated Secondary School, Tanglin Secondary School, Tanglin Technical Secondary School
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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 … Continue reading
Posted in General, Nostalgic
Tagged Alexandra Canal, Birkhall Road School, Church Of Our Saviour, Commonwealth Avenue Food Centre, Commonwealth Avenue Wet Market, Dawson Hawker Centre, Duchess Estate, Former Queenstown Polyclinic, Golden City Theatre, Golden Crown Restaurant, Housing And Development Board, Hua Yi Government Chinese Middle School, Hua Yi Primary School, Jalan Penjara, Kay Siang Primary School, Lee Kong Chian Gardens School, Lee Kuan Yew, Margaret Drive, Margaret Drive Hawker Centre, Margaret Drive Secondary School, Margaret Rose, Masjid Jamek, Mohamed Khir Johari, Princess Estate, Princess Margaret, Princess Margaret Estate, Queenstown, Queenstown Bowl, Queenstown Branch Library, Queenstown Cinema, Queenstown Combined Clinic, Queenstown Mall, Queenstown Primary School, Queenstown Public Library, Queenstown Remand Prison, Queenstown School, Queenstown Secondary School, Queensway, Queensway Cinema, Rainbow Centre Margaret Drive School, Singapore 1960s, Singapore 1970s, Singapore 1980s, Singapore Improvement Trust, SkyResidence @Dawson, Strathmore School, Tah Chung Emporium, Tanglin Boys' School, Tanglin Girls' School, Tanglin Halt, Tanglin Road, The Fisherman Of Christ Fellowship, Townsville Institute, Urban Redevelopment Authority, Venus Theatre
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The Remaking of Jalan Kayu’s Church of The Epiphany
The familiar old white building of the Church of The Epiphany, located off the roundabout outside the former Royal Air Force (RAF) Seletar (later Seletar Camp) main gates, had been demolished. An Anglican church at Jalan Kayu, the Church of … Continue reading
Posted in Religious
Tagged Abundant Grace Presbyterian Church, Church Of The Epiphany, Group Captain R.W.G. Freer, Jalan Kayu, Jalan Kayu Bus Terminal, Jalan Kayu Primary School, Jalan Kayu Village, Lorong Thanggam, Reverend C.K. Sansbury, Royal Air Force, Royal Air Force Seletar, Second World War, Seletar, Seletar Camp, Sengkang New Town, Tampines Expressway
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