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The Quadrant, built as a temporary Oversea Chinese Bank HQ
There has been much mystery over the origins of The Quadrant at 19 Cecil Street. Identified in Gretchen Liu’s wonderful compilation of images charting Singapore’s progress over the year’s, Singapore: A...
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The Russian Navy’s Viking ship
Thanks to an invitation that Russia’s military attaché to Singapore extended to the Singapore Maritime Heritage Interest Group, I was able to have a look on board the Russian guided missile cruiser,...
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The STD hospital at Tanglin and a world renowned allergist
The relative isolation of Loewen by Dempsey Hill within the former Tanglin Barracks is a clue to how its buildings might originally have been used, as a military hospital that was known as Tanglin...
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Bearing a burden through the streets of Singapore
Chetty (or Punar) Pusam / Thaipusam With a greater proportion of folks in Chinatown preoccupied its dressing-up for the Chinese New Year on Sunday, a deeply-rooted Singaporean tradition that took place...
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Parting Glances: old Singapore’s last place of healing
Those familiar with Moulmein Road in the days of Moulmein Green would remember the old Middleton Hospital and its iconic gatehouse. The landmark entrance-way stood for over 70 years before “progress”...
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Extortion on Club Street
The pain of the darkest of times that descended upon Singapore 77 years ago is still found in the hearts of many. That comes as no surprise, tens of thousands disappeared in the first weeks of the...
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Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets is back for SG Heritage Fest
There will be three Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets guided visits to look forward to this March. Being held as part of Singapore Heritage Festival 2019, the visits will focus on sites used by...
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127 years old, but not over the hill
A last look at a 127 year old former “House on the Hill” a.k.a. “Tower House”, before it becomes part of a residential development known as “Haus on Handy”: Perched on the brow of the hill we know as...
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Parting Glances: the cylinder on Pearl’s Hill
A last look at Pearl Bank Apartments, a Chinatown landmark and a celebrated modern building. The time has come to bid farewell to Pearl Bank Apartments, that cylinder-shaped apartment block sticking...
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Golden Bell and the intended Anglo-Chinese College on Mount Faber
Much has been told of Golden Bell (mansion). Built in 1910 as Tan Boo Liat’s stately hilltop residence at Pender Road, an air of romance and some mystery perhaps, surrounds the place. It has quite a...
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The ghosts of Kallang’s past
Like ghosts, a familiar pair of figures from Kallang’s past have made a reappearance. The pair, fibreglass replicas of the Merdeka Bridge Monument lions, were unveiled this afternoon at Stadium Roar as...
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Memoirs of Nanyang – a Nanyin Musical
It is wonderful what Siong Leng Musical Association is doing to help keep memories and culture alive not just through their promotion of Nanyin (南音) – “music from the South”, but also through their...
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Going, going, gone … the tiger of Short and Selegie
A building that has long marked the corner of Short Street and Selegie Road, the former “Tiger Balm Building”1, is no more. Topped once by a tiger as a mark of its association with the Haw Par Brothers...
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The Owkang Chicken Sellers
Unforgettable memories of the sights and smells of buying Fresh Chicken and Other “Chicken” Memories. A guest post by Edmund Arozoo, once of Jalan Hock Chye and now of Adelaide Images do stir up...
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Discovering 5 Kadayanallur Street (2019)
The 2019 edition of Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets, a series of State Property Visits that has been organised with the support of the Singapore Land Authority (SLA) starts this June with a...
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Discovering Old Changi Hospital (2019)
Update : Registration has closed as of 7.06 pm 1 July 2019 More on the series: Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets The disused buildings of the former Changi Hospital have, since the hospital’s...
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A chance to paint the Padang red
The Bicentennial year brings the National Day Parade back home to the Padang, which on the evidence of the previews being held, will paint the area around the Padang red. Even if you have missed out...
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The Kreta Ayer Heritage Gallery
A peek at the wonderful little pocket of joy that Kreta Ayer Heritage Gallery is. Located at the at the Kreta Ayer Community Club, the 100 sq. m gallery opens today (14 July 2019). An effort by the...
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Discovering the former View Road Hospital (2019)
Registration for the event has closed as of 7.40 pm on 15 July 2019. More on the series, which is being organised in collaboration with the Singapore Land Authority (SLA): Discovering Singapore’s Best...
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Discovering the former CDC
Update: Registration closed as of 7.05 pm, 22 July 2019 as all spaces have been taken up. Further information on the series, which is being organised in with the support of the Singapore Land...
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