Peter continues on his tour of Bedok Corner in the old days – when the sea front ended at the Bedok Canal Connector and the land after that was reclaimed under the East Coast Land Reclamation Project.

Phase 1 of the East Coast Land reclamation Project stopped exactly at the canal between the Laguna National Golf & Country Club and Bedok Camp 1. By 1969, the seafront bungalows such as Bedok Rest House, the property of the Sultan of Pahang, the block of flats (now a part of the East Coast Medicare Center), and a zinc-roofed motor workshop stood facing the sea.

By 1972 when I was in Bedok Camp 1, there was no more sea in front of those seafront bungalows. Phase 4 of the land reclamation project from Bedok Corner had reached Tanah Merah Besar Road, leaving the sea off Nicoll Drive still intact.

Find out how the Bedok Corner landscape changed in Good Morning Yesterday.

Tags: Bedok Corner, East Coast Reclamation Project