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Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets during the Singapore Heritage Festival
The Singapore Heritage Festival will see a repeat of three State Property guided visits from last year’s “Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets” series. Organised with the support of the Singapore...
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The passing of an old neighbourhood
Old HDB neighbourhoods are a joy. Their many reminders of a gentler age, some found in old shops and kopitiams in which time seems to have left well behind, extend a welcome clearly absent in the brave...
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Parting Glances: the boxing gym at Farrer Park
The Farrer Park Boxing Gym, the home of Singapore boxing and its stable, is hanging up it gloves after half a century. Its premises, which it moved into in 1968 after another had burned down, has long...
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The forest that will be making way for the “Forest Town”
One of the things that I quite dearly miss are the seemingly long road journeys of my childhood to the far flung corners of Singapore. The journeys, always an adventure, provided an opportunity to the...
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A new light at the end of the old railway tunnel
Looking quite good is the “new” railway tunnel along the abandoned and largely forgotten old Jurong railway line. The original tunnel was one of three built as part of an industrial line in the early...
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Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets is back
First of 2018 visits will be to the former Naval Base housing area in Sembawang Details of Visit: Date : 2 June 2018 Time : 10 am to 11.45 am Registration: https://goo.gl/forms/bcdJ8nlccdtBiqSo1...
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The hospital at Mount Erskine and what may now be Singapore’s oldest lift
Rather nondescript in appearance, the building at 5 Kadayanallur Street conceals a wealth of little secrets. Last used as the corporate offices of a department store in Singapore, there are few who...
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A Dutch flavoured corner in the former Chasseriau Estate
With what could be described as Dutch gables prominently displayed, the pair of houses right at end of Watten Estate Road gives the area a distinct feel. The houses are what remain of a cluster of six....
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Discovering 5 Kadayanallur Street
Next on the Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets series of State Property Visits, being organised with the support of the Singapore Land Authority (SLA), is to No. 5 Kadayanallur Street on 7 July...
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The Sembawang sport and community hub
Standing at the top of the southeastern-most hill in the former Naval Base for much of its 78 years in existence, Old Admiralty House is set to part with the quiet isolation that it was intended to...
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Discovering 10 Hyderabad Road
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...
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Discovering Keys’ Dutch-gabled houses
Next in the Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets series of guided State Property visits brings us to two delightful houses (one of which will be opened) designed by Major P. H. Keys. Major Keys...
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The best views of the western Singapore Strait
From its perch by the sea, the block of flats that sits on an elevation next to the former Pasir Panjang ‘A’ Power Station provides what has to be the best views of the western Singapore Strait....
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(Re)Discovering Old Changi Hospital
Registration is closed as all slots have been taken up Look out for next visit in the series to the Garrison Churches of Tanglin on 3 Nov 2018. As this is a repeat of last year’s visit, it would be...
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Parting glances: the “mini cantonment” with a view
The time has come to bid farewell to Normanton Park, a housing estate with a military past in more ways than one. Built on part of the site of the Admiralty’s former Normanton Oil Depot, the estate...
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Dark clouds on the northern horizon
I have long thought of the Sembawang area as a final frontier, and a last part of modern Singapore in which much of yesterday remains to be discovered. Progress is however eating away at these remnants...
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Pilgrimage to an isle of legends
The southern isles of Singapore are steeped in myths, legends and traditions. While most seem to lie buried in the sands that have expanded them, one that lives on is the pilgrimage to Pulau Tembakul –...
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Journeys of faith and devotion from Kampong Gelam
An insightful exhibition featuring the journeys of faith that Hajj pilgrims take in both body and in spirit, ‘Undangan ke Baitullah: Pilgrims Stories from the Malay World to Makkah’, was launched...
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A glimpse of Seletar’s past – the Ralph Charles Saunders Collection
The generous donation of more than 1,400 images on photographic slides from the Ralph Charles Saunders Collection – of Singapore and Malaya (and maybe a few of Lima) taken in the late 1950s – made the...
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Serendipity in the garrison church
Places take on a greater meaning when we are made aware of the associations they have had; with people who have passed through them, or with their connection with significant events of our past....
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