#Discovering Singapore&039;s Best Kept Secrets

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Discovering the former Kallang Airport

Discovering the former Kallang Airport

A Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets visit organised with the support of the Singapore Land Authority (SLA).

More information on the series of State Property visits can be found at this link: Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets.

Constructed on land reclaimed from the swampy Kallang, Rochor and Geylang river estuary, Kallang Aerodrome had the reputation of being “the peer of any in…

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Discovering 5 Kadayanallur Street (2019)

Discovering 5 Kadayanallur Street (2019)

The 2019 edition of Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets, a series of State Property Visits that has been organised with the support of the Singapore Land Authority (SLA) starts this June with a revisit to No. 5 Kadayanallur Street.

Two(2) sessions are being held on 22 June 2019 (a Saturday), each lasting 45 minutes.

Each session is limited to 25 participants.

Participants must be of ages 18…

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Discovering 10 Hyderabad Road

Discovering 10 Hyderabad Road

Information on where and when the visit will take place, and also how to register, please click here.

The third visit in the 2018 “Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets” series of State Property Visits, which the Singapore Land Authority is supporting, is to No. 10 Hyderabad Road. The property, which is now wonderfully repurposed as the Singapore campus of the S P Jain School of Global…

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Discovering 5 Kadayanallur Street

Discovering 5 Kadayanallur Street

Next on the Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets series of State Property Visits, being organised with the support of the Singapore Land Authority (SLA), is to No. 5 Kadayanallur Street. The visit is limited to 40 participants of ages 18 and above. Registration (limited to 40 participants of ages 18 and above) may be made by filling the form at this link (please click).

More information:

Th…

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When Kallang counted among the world's best airports

When Kallang counted among the world’s best airports

Changi Airport today has the reputation of being one of the world’s foremost airports. It wasn’t however the first airport in Singapore to win that accolade. Singapore’s very first civil airport, Kallang Airport, was in fact thought of by no less a personality as Amelia Earhart as the “peer of any in the world” when she flew into it on 20 June 1937 — just eight days after it had opened.

The…

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Discovering the former Kallang Airport (a repeat visit on 21 Sep 2019)

Discovering the former Kallang Airport (a repeat visit on 21 Sep 2019)

A Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets visit organised with the support of the Singapore Land Authority (SLA).

More information on the series of State Property visits can be found at this link: Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets.

Constructed on land reclaimed from the swampy Kallang, Rochor and Geylang river estuary, Kallang Aerodrome impressed Amelia Earhart enough for her to…

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Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets: Visit a former power station There are some gems of spaces and structures that belong to the State. Locked away behind locked gates and with "No Trespassing" signs prominently displayed, they are hidden away from most of us.

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Tanglin's 1884 garrison chapel?

Tanglin’s 1884 garrison chapel?

There is little doubt that The White Rabbit, an exclusive dining destination in the former Tanglin Barracks, occupies a building that was built as a small church. The only question is when. Little does seem to have been documented about the building, or its history other than the fact that it was used in the post-British military pull-out era as a chapel — the Ebenezer Chapel — for two different…

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The Eastern Extension Telegraph Company's Estate on Mount Faber

The Eastern Extension Telegraph Company’s Estate on Mount Faber

Some of you would probably have read the news about the possibility of a heritage trail in the Pender Road area in the Straits Timesover the weekend. The trail involves the estate containing five wonderfully designed houses that were erected by the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company’s relatively junior engineering staff in the early 1900s. The company, which was part of a group established by…

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By popular demand, a second opportunity to discover the former CDC

By popular demand, a second opportunity to discover the former CDC

Note: This visit is a repeat of the one held on 3 Aug 2019 and as such, opened only to those who were not provided with a place for the earlier visit.

Places would be allocated only to the first 25 eligible registrants. Unsuccessful registrants would be placed on the waiting list.

Successful registrants will be notified by email by 9 Aug 2019.

Further information on the series, which is being…

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Discovering the former CDC

Discovering the former CDC

Further information on the series, which is being organised in with the support of the Singapore Land Authority (SLA), can be found at this link: Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets.

The move made by Tan Tock Seng Hospital’s former Communicable Disease Centreor CDC to the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) in December 2018 and its handover to SLA, provides an opportunity to…

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Discovering the former View Road Hospital (2019)

Discovering the former View Road Hospital (2019)

More on the series, which is being organised in collaboration with the Singapore Land Authority (SLA): Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets.

No. 10 View Roadis perhaps best known as the former View Road Hospital, a branch of Woodbridge Hospital (now the Institute of Mental Health) until the early 2000s. The hospital housed and treated patients undergoing rehabilitation with many finding…

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Discovering the former View Road Hospital (2019)

Discovering the former View Road Hospital (2019)

More on the series, which is being organised in collaboration with the Singapore Land Authority (SLA): Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets.

No. 10 View Roadis perhaps best known as the former View Road Hospital, a branch of Woodbridge Hospital (now the Institute of Mental Health) until the early 2000s. The hospital housed and treated patients undergoing rehabilitation with many finding…

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Discovering Old Changi Hospital (2019)

Discovering Old Changi Hospital (2019)

The disused buildings of the former Changi Hospital have, since the hospital’s colsure in 1997, been the subject of persistent rumours that stem from a misunderstanding of the buildings’ wartime history.

The hospital, which began its life as RAF Hospital, Changi, was among the most highly regarded in the RAF medical service. It boasted of some of the best facilities, and the environment it…

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The STD hospital at Tanglin and a world renowned allergist

The STD hospital at Tanglin and a world renowned allergist

The relative isolation of Loewen by Dempsey Hill within the former Tanglin Barracks is a clue to how its buildings might originally have been used, as a military hospital that was known as Tanglin Military Hospital. Established at the end of the 1800s in what were attap roofed barrack-like buildings, it served as the military’s main medical facility for its European contingent of troops on…

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The Quadrant, built as a temporary Oversea Chinese Bank HQ

The Quadrant, built as a temporary Oversea Chinese Bank HQ

There has been much mystery over the origins of The Quadrant at 19 Cecil Street. Identified in Gretchen Liu’s wonderful compilation of images charting Singapore’s progress over the year’s, Singapore: A Pictorial History 1819-2000, as having been built for the Kwangtung Provincial Bank, it turns out that it was for another Chinese bank – the Oversea Chinese Bank – for which it was erected for.

The…