Thanks to Paul Cook for this
photo of Singapore Swimming Club and the next photo of Queens Road . |
Queens Town. Paul also submitted
a photo of Bourne School which can be seen on the
Bourne School Page |
1960s Outram Park Hock Lee Bus Station |
1968 National Day Parade along North
Bridge Road |
Bugis Street |
The following 5 scans of 60's street map of central
Singapore showing notable buildings. |
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Cathay Jurong Drive-in Cinema
Open from July 1973 until 1985. An interesting
picture from Jeffery Abdullah. |
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.
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Cold Storage facing Orchard Road 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 |
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." |
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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
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 |
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.
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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.
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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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