Still on the subject of roundabouts, Chun See talks about the area around the Holland Road Roundabout, in particular, the Farrer Road area where he lived in during the 1960s and 1970s.
After our home at Lorong Chuan was acquired by the government under the Land Acquisition Act, we moved to an HDB apartment here in 1974. At that time, we heard that the HDB (Housing and Development Board) was introducing a new type of flat called a Five-room point block flat.…
The first ones were being built at Bendemeer Road. The price was about $28,000. We applied but were unsuccessful. The second batch was being built at Farrer Road and we succeeded this time, but the price has gone up by a whopping 25% to $35,500. In case you think that was ‘peanuts’, I would like to put things in perspective. The compensation that we got from the government for our home in Lorong Kinchir – including the land, house, fruit trees .. everything – was only slightly more than $7,000. I seem to recall that there was some kind of balloting process. I am not sure if we got some priority because we were being evicted from our kampong.
Read more about Farrer Road in Good Morning Yesterday.
Tags: Farrer Road, Holland Drive Roundabout, 1960s Singapore
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