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A morning by the strait
Photographs taken at dawn on 11 Aug 2026 at Sembawang Park – one of the best spots in Singapore to catch the sunrise. There are also a couple of views of the North Wall and North Pier of Seatrium’s...
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Discovering the old Sikh Barracks
Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets Exploring the Past, Reimagining the Future of Singapore’s Historical State Properties Tours in Collaboration with the Singapore Land Authority (SLA)...
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The lingering soul of The English House
The English House, Marco Pierre White’s rather eccentrically embellished dining establishment at Mohamed Sultan Road may have shut its doors early last year, but its soul hasn’t left the pair of...
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Discovering Command House
Next on Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets #SLASecretSpaces is a visit to the former Command House on 25 July 2026.Designed by Frank W. Brewer and completed in 1938 as Flagstaff House, the...
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Discovering Adam Park
Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets Exploring the Past, Reimagining the Future of Singapore’s Historical State Properties Held in collaboration with the Singapore Land Authority (SLA),...
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Discovering a Sembawang Arts and Crafts Inspiration
Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept SecretsExploring the Past, Re-imagining the Future of Singapore’s Historical State Properties Discovering a Sembawang Arts and Crafts Inspiration20 Dec 2025 The...
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Singapore’s Modern CBD: a Sea of Change
Trinity Church as viewed through Wall Street. The view of the former Telok Ayer Market, at the end of the narrow passage formed by the backs of the towering structures of Robinson Road and Shenton...
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C H Malan’s Tanglin Oval, a legacy ruined
The invasion of futsal cages across the so-called Tanglin Oval is quite a horrifying sight. Surely, the old Tanglin Barracks cricket ground deserves better, having had a place in history as...
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A window into a gas lit past
As well as having the power to evoke a deep sense of longing in us for places we can no longer see, old photographs can be windows into the past, and provide us with clues to life beyond what the...
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The Girls of Jalan Saksama
I just uncovered this gem, from an interview that I conducted in 2014 with three sisters, Neng Atini Roslan, Danilah Roslan and Siti Dahlia Roslan. The Girls of Jalan Saksama, as I called the sisters,...
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Identifying the house that Taylor Swift’s mum grew up in
Singapore was caught up in Taylor Swift fever with the American pop sensation in town for a six-concert Singapore leg of her sixth tour. There was also much excitement over Swift’s Singapore...
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The sun sets on northern Singapore’s last fishery port
Senoko Fishery Port, which has its roots in the Teochew run fish businesses of the old Kangkar fishing village at the end of Upper Serangoon Road, has less than two weeks before it shuts for good....
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Cashin House, “The Pier” reborn
The Pier, which was last the home of lawyer and sportsman Howard Cashin and his wife Lily in 2009, has been reborn. Sensitively rebuilt with salvageable elements such as roof and floor tiles, bricks,...
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A lone tomb, a memory of Syonan Shipyard, and their links to Keppel House
Much has been made about the “mysterious” solitary Japanese tomb sitting on the southern slopes of Mount Faber. The tomb, which could be thought of as a memorial to a painful time in Singapore’s...
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The case of the missing beach
Street names in Singapore often hold clues to the past. Names such as “Telok Ayer Street” and “Beach Road” for example, provide an indication of where the city’s original shoreline might have been....
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The old man of the strait, and a last reminder of Kampong Kranji
Singapore seems to have had quite a number of burial sites laid out across swampy grounds. Examples include the since drained old Malay cemetery at Kampong Gelam on the banks of the Rochor River, the...
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Dragon on fire
The fire of the dragon of Sar Kong was seen again last evening, making a reappearance on the streets around its lair at the Mun San Fook Tuck Chee temple. The temple introduced the fire dragon dance...
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The hidden remains of Sentosa’s big WW2 guns
Do note:The photographs of the remains of Connaught Battery contained in this post were taken during a recent recce accompanied by a member of Sentosa’s staff. Do note that the area in which the...
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More Windows into the Past: The gilt-decorated domed mansion that depleted...
Another set of photographs from the Harrison Forman collection offering a peak into Singapore’s past is one that contains views, in complete colour, of a famous but long demolished mansion and its...
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A window into the past: W J Garcia and Singapore’s first piano factory
Photographs freeze moments in time, moments that may never again be seen, or even ones with a tale or two to tell. A photograph with a tale to tell is one that belongs to a collection of photographs...
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