A serviceman’s account of Singapore in 1959

Posted by noelbynature under Food, Heritage Sites and Trails, Lifestyle, National History
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This gem from youtube entitled HMS Centaur shows us Singapore in 1959, with many familiar names and locations - although they look totally different today!

I found the observation about streets specialising only in one kind of product (fish and lanterns) quite interesting - does anybody know where these streets were? They remind me a little of the ‘36 Lanes’ in Hanoi’s Old Quarter - where historically each street specialised in selling one kind of product (some of which still persist on to today). I didn’t realise we might have had an equivalent in Singapore.

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