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Thanks to Paul Cook for this photo of Singapore Swimming Club and the next photo of Queens Road .

Queens Town

Queens Town.  Paul also submitted a photo of Bourne School which can be seen on the Bourne School Page

1960's Outram Park Hock Lee Bus Station

1960s Outram Park Hock Lee Bus Station

1968 National Day Parade along North Bridge Road

1968 National Day Parade along North Bridge Road

Bugis Street

Bugis Street

The following 5 scans of 60's street map of central Singapore showing notable buildings.

Cathay Jurong Drive-in Cinema

Cathay Jurong Drive-in Cinema

Open from July 1973 until 1985. An interesting picture from Jeffery Abdullah.

Jacks Cola Restaurant

Jacks Cola Restaurant

also known as

"The Cola Bar"

Thanks to Kenny Symmons for this photo.

My thanks to Peter Chan for the following four photos

This photo was taken around 1963 in Chun Tin Road, Bukit Timah.  The Halfway House Nightclub and Restaurant is nearby.  I also remember travelling on the Green Bus into Singapore City and back quite often.

TV Tower on top of Butik Batok Hill.  This was a transmission station for TV broadcast throughout Singapore from 1963.  Butik Batok is next to the old Ford Motor Company.  The TV Tower was recently closed down this year (2006) by its owners.

Cold Storage 1969

Cold Storage facing Orchard Road 1969

Fitzpatrick Supermarket 1969

Fitzpatrick Supermarket 1969

Thanks to John Hyde for the following nine photos.  John was in Singapore from '69 to 1971 with 3 Cdo Bde Air Sqn RM. and his wife was with 4 Coy WRAC at Tanglin Barracks.  All photos were taken in 1969, except the last one which was taken in 2009.

Cenotaph

Collyer Quay

Collyer Quay

Collyer Quay

Keppel Harbour

Paya Lebar Airport

Raffles Place

Raffles place

Raffles Place

4th Oct 1969 4th Oct 2009

St. George's Garrison Church

John Hyde said in his email "My wife and I recently returned to Singapore for our 40th wedding anniversary and had our photo taken outside the Church prior to attending the service.  Padre Philip Sinden made us most welcomed and invited us up to say a few words as an encouragement to all the married people in our midst!  We managed, just, as we were a bit choked up as you can imagine.

I was with 3 Commando Brigade RM and Sue was with 4 Company WRAC from 68 until 71."

 

Thanks to Johnny Ho for the following two photos of the shops on the Serangoon Garden Estate, sent to him by his friend Derek Lehrle and taken in the early 60s.  Also for photos of the Opera Estate.

Serangoon Garden Shops

Serangoon Garden Shops

Behind these modern terrace shop houses about 1 km away were the old wood and zinc kampong house (villages).  I used to go fishing with Bobby (Robert Holroyd) in one of  the commercial fishing ponds (still remember its called Redmire) that dotted the farmland of Serangoon Gardens.

See also Serangoon Gardens 2006

Serangoon Garden Shops

Serangoon Garden Shops

Opera Estate

Opera Estate

Opera Estate is now a very well developed private residential area.
The streets there are all named after famous operas e.g. Figaro Street...
Where once stood wood and zinc houses, pigs and chickens, you now find
expensive design 3-storey bungalows and terrace houses.
Siglap and Opera Estate are places where the well-heeled congregate.

Woo Mon Chew Road

Woo Mon Chew Road is the entrance to the Opera Estate.

Thanks to Maureen Upfield for the following two photos
My brother Michael Upfield,
having his haircut in our garden  at 72 Braemar Drive Serangoon.
The photograph was taken around 1961-1964.

Charles and Michael Upfield.  Photo taken about the same period.

My thanks to Marilyn Jenner for this photo.  Her father is on the front in the middle.  He used to be a lecturer at the School of Gurkhas, teaching both in Singapore and in Hong Kong in the 60's.

     

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