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My mum, Doris, and
brother Philip at Tiger Balm Gardens
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A drink before going
home
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Entrance to the War
Memorial, Kranji
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Inside the War
Memorial, Kranji
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The Cenotaph, Kranji
War Memorial
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Changi
Beach 1964 |
Changi
Beach 1964 |
Singapore Harbour 1964 |
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The Sultan of
Johore’s Palace – Johore Bahru - 1964
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Traditional Lion Dance |
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School Trip to
Fraser & Neave bottling plant - 1964
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Fraser & Neave
Warehouse - 1964
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School Visit to The
Straits Times - 1964
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Our rented house 27
Merryn Road - 1965
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Front
garden 1965 |
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Side
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27 Merryn Road –
lounge - very 1960s – (1963)
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Our amah – Ah Yong
(27 Merryn Road – 1965)
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My grandmother,
Ah Yong and my mother. Taken in the garden of 27 Merryn Road in
January 1967 when my gran came out to stay for a month
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My grandmother (died
1983). Taken at Paya Lebar airport in January 1967 on her way back
to UK after her month’s stay
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My brother Philip
and the family cat. Affectionately known as ‘the cat’
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My mother with ‘the
cat’ at Prince George’s Park
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Me with our dog
Jeannie in garden of 17 Prince George’s Park circ Jan 1965.
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Dave Keech. We
used to play golf at the Dover Road course. He lived in the next
road to Merryn Road
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Carol Andrews –
Paya Lebar Airport – 1965.
The first and only real love of my life.
Where is she now?
My brother Philip is on the left of the picture.
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Angela Postles –
Singapore Swimming Club 1966.
She was my steady girlfriend for 7 years. We travelled back from
Singapore together on the S. S. Oronsay in 1967, continued to see
each other in UK, and eventually married in 1973.
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Angela Postles
again. Sadly we split up in
1978 and were divorced in 1979. At the time she was a Civil Servant
in the Estate Duty Office in Shepherd’s Bush.
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Terry Hale (died in
Australia 2005). Barbara Webb
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Terry Hale at
Singapore Swimming Club 1966
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David Prosser,
English teacher and my Form Tutor in Belvoir House while in Lower 6th.
Gave up teaching for acting after…
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a part in Pretty
Polly alongside Hayley Mills, when it was filmed in Singapore in
1966/7
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???, Gerry
Hawkridge and Bejoy Moktan showing off in the form room - summer
1966
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Gerry and myself and
two unnamed members of the form group
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Duke of Edinburgh’s
visit to St. John’s 1966 – his helicopter
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Hall and Arts Block
right background
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The science
block from across the fountain but where are the students??
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Another view of
the Science block
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School Hall from
vicinity of Tuck Shop and Prefect’s Room. At this spot was where I
first listened to The Byrds Mr Tambourine Man in July 1965 - now a
McGuinn fan for life
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Another view of the
School Hall
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Staircase to the
biology labs. Phil Crawshaw pushed me down here one Friday in May
1965 into Carol Andrews who was stunned that my reaction was to ask
her on our first date.
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Street scene
Singapore circ 1965
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Another street
scene. My mother and father bottom left
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