Update (20 Jul 2018, 12.30 pm)
Registration has closed as all 40 slots have been taken up. Do look out for the next visit in the series – registration will open on a Friday two weeks before the visit date. More information at Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets is back.
The third visit in the 2018 “Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets” series of State Property Visits, which the Singapore Land Authority is supporting, is to No. 10 Hyderabad Road. The property, which is now wonderfully repurposed as the Singapore campus of the S P Jain School of Global Management (who are also hosting and supporting the visit), features a set of buildings that may seem vaguely familiar to some. The buildings, the oldest on the campus, feature tropicalised classical façades and can be found replicated across several former British military camps across Singapore dating back to the 1930s. Built as officers’ messes as part of the wave of military barracks upgrading and construction works of the era, this one at Hyderabad Road was put up for the same purpose by the officers of Gillman Barracks.
The British military pull-out in 1971 saw the building handed over to the Singapore government. The Dental Health Education Unit moved in in 1973 and then the Institute of Dental Health (IDH) – when the Dental Education Unit was incorporated into it in 1975. It was during this time that the campus’ six-storey learning centre and hostel was put up for use as a central facility for the training of dental therapists, nurses, dental assistants and technicians. Outpatient dental health clinics were also set up in the building.
The buildings of the former officers’ mess is now used by S P Jain as an administration building as well as as “hotel” for visiting faculty and features 20 very comfortable rooms as well as a beautifully decorated lounge and banquet hall. There are also staff rooms, discussion rooms, a music room, a chill-out lounge and a library in the buildings – which participants can hope to see.
Details of the visit and registration link:
| Location | : | 10 Hyderabad Road, Singapore 119579 |
| Date | : | 4 August 2018 |
| Time | : | 10 to 11.45 am |
| Registration | : | https://goo.gl/forms/goZZravHJk4hDrnx1 |
More on 10 Hyderabad Road:
More on Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets:
- On SG Magazine 5 July 2018
- 11 Best Tours of Singapore – TimeOut Singapore 11 Apr 2018
- 5 Guided Walking Trails To Discover Previously Inaccessible Corners Of Singapore – TheSmartLocal 28 Nov 2017
- Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets – LAND Sep 2017
- Guided tours of best kept secrets in S’pore – The Straits Times 23 Jul 2017