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Lee Kuan Yew's Walkabout at Princess Elizabeth Estate 1963
Nineteen Sixty-three was a tumultuous year both for me and for Singapore.For me, I was still in primary school learning my ABCs and Times Table. Yes, in my time, children hardly ever attended...
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One Million Views
Today, 8 March 2020, marks a milestone for my Princess Elizabeth Estate blog here.Total viewership to this blog has passed the 1,000,000 views mark.I started blogging back in 2007 when a colleague...
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1924 map of Hillview area.
Recently, I was chatting with a friend about the old Singapore-Woodlands Railway, aka the Tank Road-Kranji Railway of 1903. This railway ran past Hillview along Upper Bukit Timah Road. I mentioned I...
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Factories around P.E.E. #12 - Central Oil Refinery
The factory along Hillview Avenue.Green Bus service No. 5 about to turn towards (Princess) Elizabeth Drive.The Central Oil Refinery was built in 1951. It was one of the four original enterprises that...
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Factories around P.E.Estate #13 - Malayan Textile Mill
After all these years describing the various former companies located at Hillview, you would think that Malayan Textile Mill would be on top of the list. It being one of the original four...
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Hillview as seen from Upper Bukit Timah 1957.
Source: National Archives of Singapore/British Royal Air Force Collection.Here is a picture that is worth a thousand words! Colorised from an old RAF Sqn 81 aerial survey photo taken in 1957, this is...
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The Railway lines at Hillview
In my previous article that I posted in July regarding the Hillview factories along Upper Bukit Timah Road, a lot of interest was centred on the two railway lines that ran past Hillview. These were,...
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Dairy Farm @Bukit Timah in 1963
Going through the archives, I found an amazing old black & White photo that many people might have dismissed because it was improperly labelled. It had been labelled as 'Indian milk cows. Malaya...
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Malayan Guttas Vintage Photographs
Malayan Guttas Ltd was a pioneer factory at Hillview, Bukit Timah. Many of you may never have heard of this company, unless perhaps, you once lived nearby around Hillview or you might have known of...
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The Ford Motor factory - Japanese Occupation 1942-1945.
Though this is not directly related to Hillview nor Princess Elizabeth Estate, since both were created only after the surrender of the Japanese Army in 1945, the Ford Motor factory has featured...
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The sarabat stalls at Hillview Road
A sarabat stall is basically a makeshift coffee stand, in days gone by.Unlike an itinerant or travelling hawker, the sarabat stall was usually rooted temporarily at the same spot for a period. It would...
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Photos from ex-residents (#23) - Gerald Cheah BK.
For many of us who grew up in Princess Elizabeth Estate, the primary school at Princess Elizabeth Drive was a big part of growing up there in our early school life.Gerald Cheah Beng Kin moved with his...
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Hillview Haunted House - Exclusive Photos Part 1
I first wrote about the Hillview haunted house back in 2012. Since then, I have updated this blog with more related articles (links to those articles are below)This so called Hillview Mansion was...
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Hillview Haunted House - Exclusive Photos Part 2.
This is the second instalment from the photo collection of Lester Yeong on the infamous Hillview House at Jalan Dermawan.For those who missed the 1st instalment of exclusive photos, you can view them...
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The hidden waterfall at Bukit Batok
There is a beautiful cascading waterfall at Bukit Batok.Most people would not even see it when it is in plain sight.There is a magical secret to this!Many of you may have noticed that even whilst we...
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Dam burst at Bukit Gombak!
On the evening of 15 July 2021, newsfeed and videos started trending on social media about a strange incident at Bukit Batok West Ave 5 beside the Gombak Stadium. Muddy water was gushing out at a...
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The Singapore Quarry and the Chia Eng Say connection.
This article was written back in July 2011 and I transferred it here from my other travel blog as some readers have been enquiring about the Singapore Quarry and rather than re-directing them away....
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The Battle of Bukit Batok
Hello everyone. it has been quite a while since I did a post here and I do apologise for this.I have been working on a video production all about the Battle of Bukit Batok.I have also received many...
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A rare vintage photo of Hillview!
While doing some follow-up research after publishing my video on the Battle of Bukit Batok (previous article), I happened to come across a vintage photo on the Australian War Memorial photo collection...
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The beginnings of Rail Mall & Fuyong Estate.
Unless you have been following my blog, or lived in the area in the past, you may not be aware that the Rail Mall at Upper Bukit Timah Road started off life as quarters for rubber plantation...
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Inside views of 'The Haunted House'.
Since first writing about the infamous Hillview Mansion on Bukit Gombak in 2012, I've added about another half a dozen more articles related to it. The last two being exclusive exterior photos of the...
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World War Two battles around Hillview.
When World War Two descended onto Singapore in early 1942, the area that was to become Hillview in the future was still 'undeveloped' in the sense that we understand development today. Located in the...
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Hillview Avenue was almost a railway track !
When I was preparing a sketch map for my previous post, I searched for one that would show the hills and relief of the area around Hillview. I found an old 1924 map and used that as an overlay for my...
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The Hillview Circus
One of the earliest construction from the development of the Hillview area, and in fact, the last surviving original feature today is the Hillview Circus. The circus*, or more commonly called a...
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Hello everyone,It has been too long since I last focused on this blog and for that I do apologise.These past months I have been busy with my video project which I had put off for quite a while as...
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