Thanks to Alan Cottrell for
sharing these photos of his time in Singapore. Alan was in
Singapore from 1963 to 1967. |
![Alan Cottrell](../Alan_Cottrell/alan_cottrell_small.jpg)
This is me aged 14 years 2 months taken at the same time
as the next photo of my brother just after arriving in Singapore in May
1963. |
![Stephen Philip Cottrell](../Alan_Cottrell/philip_stephen_cottrell_small.jpg)
Stephen Philip Cottrell
b.
December 1951
d.
February 1991 |
![Tanglin Guest House](../Alan_Cottrell/tanglin_guest_house_small.jpg)
The Tanglin Guest House, where we first stayed when we
arrived in Singapore |
![Tanglin Guest House](../Alan_Cottrell/tanglin_guest_house2_small.jpg) |
![17 Prince Georges Park](../Alan_Cottrell/17_prince_georges_park_small.jpg)
Our first 'Quarters' in Singapore - 17 Prince George's
Park - just below The Gap and Kent Ridge. |
![17 Prince Georges Park](../Alan_Cottrell/17_prince_georges_park2_small.jpg) |
![](../Alan_Cottrell/17_prince_georges_park_front_garden_small.jpg) |
![](../Alan_Cottrell/17_prince_georges_park_front_porch_small.jpg)
Front porch - my dad had 3 of these Volvos while we were
in Singapore, as well as an MG TD |
![Front Room](../Alan_Cottrell/17_prince_georges_park_front_room_small.jpg)
Front room |
![Dinning Room](../Alan_Cottrell/17_prince_georges_park_dinning_room_small.jpg)
Dinning room |
![Patio](../Alan_Cottrell/17_prince_georges_park_patio_small.jpg)
Patio |
![Looking up at Kent Ridge](../Alan_Cottrell/looking_up_kent_ridge_small.jpg)
Looking up at Kent
Ridge from the front garden of 17 Prince George’s Park. I used to
climb up there to my mate Michael Clarke’s house. Saved about a mile
walking!!
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![Alexandra Grammar School entrance](../Alan_Cottrell/alex_grammar_entrance_small.jpg)
My
first school in Singapore (May 1963 – June 1964) Alexandra Grammar
School entrance at the bottom of the notorious hill.
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![Alexandra Grammar School buildings 1963](../Alan_Cottrell/alex_grammer_1963_small.jpg)
Pasir Panjang Junior School buildings 1963 |
![Alexandra Grammar School building 1963](../Alan_Cottrell/alex_grammer_1963_no2_small.jpg)
Pasir Panjang Junior School buildings 1963 |
![Charles Allcock](../Alan_Cottrell/charles_allcock_small.jpg)
My
brother's best mate at Bourne School 1964, I believe his name to be
Charles Allcock - but I'm not sure.
Andrew Cole has indentified this
photo as being of him.
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![Pasir Panjang Junior School 1963](../Alan_Cottrell/pasir_panjang_junior_school_1963_small.jpg)
My
brother Philip’s first school in Singapore (May 1963 – June 1963)
Pasir Panjang Junior School
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![Barbeque held at Dover Road pool](../Alan_Cottrell/dover_road_pool_small.jpg)
Barbeque
held at Dover Road pool
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![Family outing at The Gap 1964](../Alan_Cottrell/family_outing_1964_small.jpg)
Family outing at
The Gap 1964 – Self in foreground, Chris Wall to my right
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![View from The Gap overlooking Prince George's Park and Pasir Panjang](../Alan_Cottrell/view_from_the_gap_small.jpg)
The view from The
Gap overlooking Prince George’s Park and Pasir Panjang.
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![Pasir Panjang Power Station](../Alan_Cottrell/pasir_panjang_power_station_small.jpg)
The view from my
bedroom window at Prince George’s Park – looking across Pasir
Panjang Power Station and the islands in the Straits of Singapore
beyond.
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![The Gap hill climb races](../Alan_Cottrell/gap_hill_climb_races_small.jpg)
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![Charles 'Spud' Leavey 1964](../Alan_Cottrell/fishing_ponds_seletar_1964_small.jpg)
Charles ‘Spud’
Leavey, Fishing Ponds at Seletar 1964
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![General view of the Fishing Ponds at Seletar 1964](../Alan_Cottrell/fishing_ponds_seletar_1964_no2_small.jpg)
General view of the
Fishing Ponds at Seletar 1964
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![](../Alan_Cottrell/fishing_ponds_seletar_1964_no3_small.jpg)
Another view of the
Fishing Ponds at Seletar 1964
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![Chris Wall 1964](../Alan_Cottrell/chris_wall_small.jpg)
Chris Wall – a mate
from 1964 – 1966 before he went to Hong Kong. Used to play guitar
with The Pagans (I think). Taken at The Gap 1964.
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![The Gully-Gully Man - taken at The Gap 1964](../Alan_Cottrell/the_gully-gully_man_1964_small.jpg)
The Gully-Gully man
– Taken at The Gap 1964.
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![](../Alan_Cottrell/the_gully-gully_man_1964_no2_small.jpg) |
![](../Alan_Cottrell/the_gully-gully_man_1964_no3_small.jpg) |
![](../Alan_Cottrell/the_gully-gully_man_1964_no4_small.jpg) |
![](../Alan_Cottrell/the_gully-gully_man_1964_no5_small.jpg) |
![](../Alan_Cottrell/the_gully-gully_man_1964_no6_small.jpg)
He’s
put his snakes away now and doing his magic
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![Traditional Malay Dancing.](../Alan_Cottrell/traditional_malay_dancing_small.jpg)
Traditional Malay
dancing
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![](../Alan_Cottrell/traditional_malay_dancing_2_small.jpg) |
![](../Alan_Cottrell/traditional_malay_dancing_3_small.jpg) |
![](../Alan_Cottrell/traditional_malay_dancing_4_small.jpg) |
![](../Alan_Cottrell/traditional_malay_dancing_5_small.jpg) |
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