Capitol Theatre – Then and Now

James reminisces of the heyday of Capitol Theatre in his latest post. “Once it was Singapore’s grande dame of cinemas, a destination for three generations of movie-lovers eager to see the latest Hollywood flicks.” Read James Seah’s post on Capitol Theatre. Tweet(function() { var po = document.createElement(‘script’); po.type = ‘text/javascript’; po.async = true; po.src = [...]

Railway memories

7 Jun 2011

Dear great-great-great-grandchildren,

Today, I have this urge to write to all of you about my excursions to the Bukit Timah Railway Station and various parts along the KTM railway tracks on 4 Jun 2011. I do not know if you would ever experience these places like I did?

Fort Serapong

Chances are, you’ve never heard of Fort Serapong, much less know where it is. But its ruins still stand today, in an overgrown state, much like how Angkor was when it was first discovered some 200 years ago. Joy Loh visited Fort Serapong earlier this year, and writes about the armaments of the fort: Serapong [...]

iremember goes to Toa Payoh on 30 Mar!

  “iremember goes to Toa Payoh” is the first of a series of outreach initiatives to the heartlands island-wide. At this carnival we will be premiering two local short films by Singapore film-makers Tan Pin Pin and Wee Li Lin. They were commissioned as part of the Singapore Memory Singapore’s efforts to showcase memories via [...]

A reminder of the wartime past

Our collective memory of the wartime tends to be skewed towards the military rather than the civilian – many of our heritage sites from the war are forts, battle sites and other military installations. That’s why the Tiong Bahru Air Raid shelter is so refreshing – because it hits closer to home since there are [...]