Remember Singapore

For decades, the Spooner Road flats had been a small, quiet and sleepy housing estate.

When the Port of Singapore Authority (PSA) successfully applied for the New York-based World Trade Centre Association in 1971, there were plans to build Singapore’s own World Trade Centre.

In 1981, the National Library introduced plans to build branch libraries at seven existing and upcoming new towns, including Ang Mo Kio, Bedok, Geylang East, Jurong, Hougang, Tampines, Woodlands and Yishun (However, the Hougang, Tampines and Yishun librar…

Many drivers and cyclists would fondly remember the long, straight and scenic Changi Coast Road with rows of trees by its sides.

A Peranakan gem had previously stood at 26 Mangis Road for almost a century.

The concept of a new town called Seletar was made known by the Housing and Development Board (HDB) in the early eighties.

Between 1908 and 1911, in the midst of a booming rubber industry, the British government freed up 2,000 acres of forested lands at the north of Sungei Seletar for the cultivation of rubber plantations.

At a small forested slope inside Gillman Barracks, between Block 37 and 38, quietly lie two forgotten stone military insignia plaques that previously belonged to the Middlesex Regiment and Loyal Regiment, two of British’s infantry battalions stationed in…

By the 1930s, the Singapore Cold Storage and retail establishments at Orchard Road were already popular among the British and other Europeans for their Christmas shopping.

Although Singapore does not have an official national fruit, durian is arguably the favourite fruit among Singaporeans.

From the seventies to nineties, cars that roamed Singapore roads were largely imported from countries such as Australia (Holden), Czechoslovakia (Skoda), France (Citroen, Peugeot, Renault), Germany (Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Audi, Opel, Volkswagen), Italy (Fiat,