Please note that registration for the event is closed as all spaces made available have been taken up.
The Singapore Land Authority (SLA) has kindly granted permission for a series of guided State Property visits, “Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets”, the seventh of which will be to the former View Road Lodge – best known perhaps for its time as the View Road (Mental) Hospital.
View Road Lodge in January 2011.
As a branch of Woodbridge Hospital (now the Institute of Mental Health) that operated from 1975 to 2001, View Road Hospital was used to house and treat recovering patients from Woodbridge. Many of View Road’s patients were in fact well enough to find work in day jobs outside of the hospital, which also operated a laundry, a cafe and a day-care centre with patients’ help.
Thought to have been completed just prior to the outbreak of war in late 1941, it is also known that the building was put to use as accommodation for Asian policemen (with the Naval Base Police Force) and their families from the end of the 1950s to around 1972. During this time, the Gurdwara Sabha Naval Police – a Sikh temple, operated on the grounds. As View Road Lodge, the building was re-purposed on two occasions as a foreign workers dormitory.
The visit will also include a rare opportunity to have a look at an above ground bomb-shelter that had been constructed as part of the complex in 1941.
Rimau “Bomb-Proof” Office, 1941 (National Archives UK).
The details of the visit are as follows:
Date : 21 October 2017
Time : 10 am to 12 noon
Address: 10 View Road Singapore 757918
Participants should be of age 18 and above.
Kindly register only if you are able to make the visit by filling the form in below.
Registrations will close when the event limit of 30 registrants has been reached or on 14 October 2017 at 2359 hours, whichever comes first.
More on the property : Rooms with more than a view
Further information on the series / highlights of selected visits:
- Guided tours of best kept secrets in S’pore (Sunday Times, 23 July 2017)
- Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets (LAND – SLA Newsletter, September 2017)
- Old Changi Hospital Visit on 9 September 2017
- Former Beach Road Police Station visit on 7 October 2017
Filed under: Changing Landscapes, Discovering Singapore's Best Kept Secrets, Forgotten Buildings, Forgotten Places, Military Sites, Reminders of Yesterday, Sembawang, Singapore, State Property Visits
