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- Looking for Bits and Pieces of Old Seletar
- The Old Forgotten Tombstone of Jane Buyers at Lower Seletar Reservoir
- The Once Mysterious Bedok and Woodlands Flats
- A Military History of Singapore’s Pillboxes
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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
- 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 Mama 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 Signs
- 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
- 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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Tag Archives: Tanglin Halt
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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Closure (Partial) of Tanglin Halt Close
The loop made up of Tanglin Halt Road and Tanglin Halt Close was once the witness of the rise of Singapore’s earliest light industrial development program. When the iconic 10-storey Tanglin Halt flats were built in the early sixties (they … Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged Commonwealth Avenue, Commonwealth Drive, Great Malaysia Textile, Jurong Town Corporation, Lee Kah Ngam, Nippon Paint, Roxy Electric Industries, Sekisui Malaysia Company, Setron Televisions, Sheng Hou Enterprises, Tanglin Halt, Tanglin Halt Close, Tanglin Halt Industrial Estate, Tanglin Halt Road, Van Houten Chocolate
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A Singapura Mystery – The Queenstown Shooting 1972
It was a sunny Sunday noon, like any other normal weekends in Singapore. Yet a tragic case happened and shocked the Singapore society; an unsolved case that still baffles many till this day, even after 43 years. On 17 September 1972, at around … Continue reading
Posted in Historic
Tagged Chan Chee Chan, Queen's Circus, Queenstown Shooting, Singapore 1970s, Tanglin Halt
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Singapore Trivia: The Tembusu Tree and 5-Dollar Note
If you visit the Botanic Gardens via the Tanglin gates, you may have notice the iconic Tembusu tree and find it familiar. That is because the tree, with its signature low stretching branch, is used as a motif on our current … Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged Botanic Gardens, Orchid Series, Portrait Series, Singapore Dollar Notes, Tanglin Halt, Tembusu Tree
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Tanglin Halt – Where the Trains used to Pass by
Tanglin Halt. This was where the trains used to pass by, exchanging key tokens with the station master in order to receive the authority to enter the correct tracks. Express trains from Kuala Lumpur used to stop regularly at Tanglin … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural, Historic
Tagged chup lau chu, Church of the Blessed Sacrament, SIT Flats, Sri Muneeswaran Temple, Tanglin Halt
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Have a Cup of Kopi…. with Butter
It was a warm and humid afternoon. There were few customers in this old kopitiam tucked away at the ground floor of one of the old HDB flats at North Bridge Road. The sleepy neighbourhood had seen several changes in … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural, Nostalgic
Tagged Chin Hin Eating House, Coffee With Butter, Heap Seng Leong, Kopi Gu You, Kopitiam, North Bridge Road, Tanglin Halt
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From Villages to Flats (Part 2) – Public Housing in Singapore
The history of the public housing in Singapore is largely divided into two sections: The Singapore Improvement Trust’s (SIT) period and the Housing and Development Board’s (HDB) era. Two minor players that had also contributed in the building of public … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural, Historic
Tagged Albert Street, Ang Mo Kio, Artisan Dwellings, Bras Basah, Build and Sell Scheme, Build-to-Order, Bukit Ho Swee Fire, Butterfly Block, Changi Village, Chinatown, Commonwealth Close, Dakota Crescent, Design, Dover Estate, Dutch's Corner, Executive Condominium, Forfar House, Four Leaf Clover Flat, HDB Executive Maisonettes, HDB Terrace House, Hong Lim Park, Housing And Development Board, Housing and Urban Development Company, Jurong Town Corporation, Kampong Java, Kampong Silat, Lakeview Estate, Lim Kim San, Margaret Drive, Marine Parade, Neo Tiew, Pinnacle@Duxton, Potong Pasir, Princess Elizabeth Estate, Princess Margaret Estate, Provision Shop, Public Housing, Redhill Close, Rochor Centre, Selegie House, Singapore Improvement Trust, Strathmore and Dawson, Taman Jurong, Tanglin Halt, Tiong Bahru, Toa Payoh, Upper Pickering Street, Void Deck, Yung Kuang Road, Zion Road
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