The colourful streets of Selegie and Mackenzie

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Jerome revisits some of the colourful buildings, streets and back alleys along Selegie and Mackenzie road - places that he used to visit in childhood.

With Little India not too far away, plenty of good food on every corner, and plenty of historic buildings, little wonder that there’s much to remember around here.

The area around Rex was also interesting to me. On Selegie Road – we could see the tallest school building in Singapore, all ten storeys of it, which belonged to Selegie School. Being used to walking up to classrooms from Assembly class by class in rows of two, I often wondered how pupils could do that with the lifts. Next to the school building was Selegie House – a complex of HDB blocks of flats with shops and restaurants below – passing by, I always noticed the sign at the foot of the block closer to Selegie School with the words “Gomez Curry”. Gomez was known for some of the hottest curries around Singapore. My parents mentioned that Gomez had moved there from nearby Sophia Road where he had first set up shop – operating out of a car garage, with a long table from which he sold his curries!

Another one of the places remembered by Jerome is the Ellison building, which we also featured here recently. Read about Jerome’s memories of Selegie and Mackenzie roads here.

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