Thursday, May 24, 2012

Don’t be distracted by the toilet

Posted by noelbynature

In Edward’s third part of his reflections about 1960s life in the Sembawang Hills Estate, he talks about the newly-built home that he moved into. He starts off commenting about the toilet, and moves off the the other features of the house such as the plumbing, ventilation and parking.

pt3b-squatting-toilet

Edward remembers:

When we first moved into Sembawang Hills Estate in 1958, the newly built homes had the old style “squatting” toilet. It wasn’t until about 10 years later that we installed the modern toilet, which allowed users to be comfortably seated while “doing their business”.

But what other state-of-the art features were there in a 1960s home? Read more about Edward’s Sembwang Hills Estate house in Good Morning Yesterday.

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