Memories of Singapore

Photos and Images submitted to the Memories of Singapore website


Last additions - Bill Johnston
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The beginning of Scotts Road205 viewsThe beginning of Scotts Road, taken from the same viewpoint. Today it is all high-rise blocks on both sides.Jan 18, 2014
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Looking down Orchard Road towards CK Tang271 viewsLooking down Orchard Road towards CK Tang (on the left), taken from Liat Towers, the stubby block which housed Donald Moore Galleries after it moved from its original premises in Clemenceau Avenue. It's amazing that there are no high-rise buildings along the length of this part of Orchard Road; compare it with today! Orchard Road was two-way traffic in the 1960s, something present-day Singapore children find hard to believe - as, also, that policemen wore short trousers then!Jan 18, 2014
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My daughter192 viewsMy daughter demonstrating the state-of-the-art child safety seat of the 60s in Singapore! Made of wicker, it simply hooked over the bench seat in the front of my Standard Vanguard without straps, anchors or anything else!

Maybe some of the others who look at this web site will remember something similar.
Jan 18, 2014
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Collyer Quay207 viewsCollyer Quay during the evening rush hour. The inevitable VW Beetle and a Mercedes, but in those days nearly all other cars were British.Jan 18, 2014
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Change Alley213 viewsThe grubby entrance to Change Alley from Collyer Quay. Nowadays the Alley, though still bearing the name, is a disappointing air-conditioned thoroughfare with smart shops and offices lining the sides.Jan 18, 2014
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The Lido Cinema258 viewsThe Lido Cinema at the junction of Orchard and Scotts Road. The present Lido, at the top of the atrium of another shopping centre, is reached by a number of vertiginous escalators - all made by Schindler, as I noticed when I came out of the auditorium with a hushed audience after seeing Schindler's List!Jan 18, 2014
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Wessex News Board289 viewsAs each of the 27 Changi Bus Co (later, military buses) drew up at the steps to the school, children read my message board updated daily with vital information and frivolous drawings. (Someone else photographed the board and the picture appeared on the back of Tommy Atkins's Children, a history of army children's schools.Jan 14, 2014
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There goes the Duke of Edinburgh!222 viewsThere goes the Duke of Edinburgh! He came to Singapore in 1965 or 1966 and, though he visited the 'rivals' at Alexandra Junior School, his entourage didn't stop as it passed Pasir Panjang. Jan 14, 2014
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swimming gala281 viewsHere, in colour, is an earlier swimming gala held before the Dover Road complex was finished. This is the pool at Gillman Barracks, which actually gave the spectators a better view of everythingJan 14, 2014
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The school swimming team315 viewsThe school swimming team after a success at Dover Road pool.Jan 14, 2014
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The school in the background now is Tanglin Trust235 viewstaken in 2009 by Bill Johnston.

The school in the background now is Tanglin Trust, a very large, now all age, private school.
Jan 14, 2014
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223 viewsTaken in 2009 a photo of one of the three storey flats on the Wessex Estate, that were once married quarters for British Servicemen and their families.Jan 14, 2014
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