Bras Basah area in the 1970s

0: Row of book and sporting goods shops

Row of shophouses which contained several bookshops (most moved to Bras Basah Complex in the early 1980s) and sporting goods shops which area was well known for.

1: Former Gaol (Jail) / CYMA

2: Beng Swee Place

Beng Swee Place on PICAS

3: Rendezvous Nasi Padang Restaurant

Best Nasi Padang!Rendezvous

4: Cathay Photo

Cathay Photo on Bras Basah

5: Sarabat Stalls

6: SJI School Field

SJI Field

7: Old National Library

Old National Library

8: MPH

MPH as seen from the junction of Queen Street and Stamford Road

9: Eu Court

Demolished for road widening and replaced by Stamford Court (ugly)

10: Former RGS

RGS on Queen Street

11: Former Catholic High School

12: Former Catholic High School

Photos from Alumini

13: Former Stamford College

Stamford College - a private college popular with private 'O' Level candidates and also for Diploma courses occupied the place where Oxford Hotel stands today.

14: Former Stamford CC

Former Stamford CC

15: Sea of Candlelight

A procession is held to commemorate Good Friday in the traditions of the Iberian peninsula - St. Joseph's Church was administered by the Portuguese Mission from Macau. The section of Queen Street behind St. Joseph's Church turns into a sea of candlelight each Good Friday.

16: Former St Anthony's Convent

St. Anthony's Convent

17: Former St Anthony's Boys School

St. Anthony's Boys' School

18: Empress Hotel

19: Former Middle Road Church

Was used as a car workshop in the 1970s

20: Registry of Vehicles

Mention of it

21: POSB HQ

POSB HQ

22: Row of Sign Craft Shops

Row of signcraft shops

23: Middle Road Hospital

(Treatment of skin conditions and STDs) - started life as the Doh Jin Hospital in 1940s

24: Dhoby Ghaut (street)

Kirk Terrace and some memories of Dhoby GhautDhoby Ghaut and some more memories

25: Old YMCA Building

26: Bras Basah Green

27: Catholic Centre

Catholic Centre at corner of Bras Basah Road and Queen Street

28: Row of Shophouse

29: Victoria Building

Corner shop was the Central Medical Hall and had a display of lab instruments and labware.

30: Red House Bakery

31: Shanghai Bookstore

Victoria Street Memories

32: Victoria Restaurant

Rare Air-Conditioned Chicken Rice placeVictoria Restaurant

33: Hotel New HongKong

34: Bethesda Hall

Bethesda Hall on Bras Basah

35: Jubilee Theatre

Jubilee on PICAS (1950)

36: Odeon Theatre

37: Holloway Lane

Holloway Lane

38: Shanghai Furniture Makers

39: Original Satay Club

The Satay Club in the 1960s and early 1970s was at Hoi How Road (up to 1972) before moving to Esplanade

40: Raffles Institution

Raffles Institution

41: CHIJ

CHIJ in its early days (photo)

42: St Nicholas Girls'

On PICAS

43: Coffee Shop

We referred to it as "Smokey's" for some reasonVictoria Street Memories

44: Makan Place

45: US Embassy / USIS

US Embassy on Hill Street

46: Saga Seed Tree

47: Methodist Book Room

48: ACS Primary

Now National ArchivesACS Coleman Street

49: CPIB

50: Corner Coffee Shop / Mayfair Hotel

Good Char Kway Teow and Ngoh Hiang + Mayfair Hotel

51: SJI Garden and Fountain

The garden in front of the main building

52: SJI Toilet Block (Demolished)

Sealed up second level said to be haunted

53: Anderson Building

54: SJI Science Labs

55: SJI School Library

56: SJI Assembly Courtyard

Courtyard in SJI where assembly was held

57: SJI 2104 Scout Den

58: SJI Guava Tree and Fish Pond

59: Original 100 Steps

One Hundred Steps to Heaven

60: Waterloo Street

Many of the buildings looked quite dilapidated in the 1970s/1980s.

61: Middle Row Shophouse

Middle Road Shophouse

62: Victoria Street Shophouses

Victoria Street Shophouses

63: Victoria Street / Bain Street

Victoria Street / Bain Street shophouses

64: Junction of Stamford Road and Beach Road

Junction of Stamford Road and Beach Road

65: Alhambra Cinema

Alhambra Cinema

66: Cathay Building

The original Cathay Building

67: SJI Chapel (2nd Level)

SJI Chapel

68: St. Joseph's Institution (SJI)

St. Joseph's Institution (SJI)

69: Junction of Victoria Street and Bras Basah Road

Junction of Victoria Street and Bras Basah Road

70: Queen Street

Queen Street

71: Middle Road scene

Middle Road

72: North Bridge Road

North Bridge Road

73: Orchard Road near Dhoby Ghaut

Orchard Road near Dhoby Ghaut

74: CHIJ Field behind chapel

Now a sunken courtyard

75: National Showroom and Billboard

Towering BillboardNational Billboard

76: Bencoolen Street

Bencoolen Street

77: Salmon's Maternity Home

Salmon's Maternity Home at 110 Prinsep Street

78: Hill Street

Hill Street

79: Eu Villa

Eu Villa

80: Mercantile Institution

Mercantile Institution was a private school and one of the first schools to restart classes after the war ended. Many boys who had their school interrupted by the war enrolled here before transferring to public schools when those restarted some years after the war ended. 'Mercantile' was often mispronounced as something that sounded like "makan tahi", which in Malay means 'eat shit'.

81: Polglase Bridge

Bridge over the then open Stamford Canal

82: The bend on Stamford Road

The bend on Stamford Road

83: Hill Street Centre

Hill Street Centre

84: View of the mouth of the Stamford Canal

View to the mouth of the Stamford Canal

85: Soon Chong Leong Building

Soon Chong Leong Building

86: Cashin Street

Cashin Street

87: Shophouses on Middle Road

Shophouses on Middle Road

88: Former Tao Nan School

Former Tao Nan School

89: A&W on Dhoby Ghaut

Tuesdays were Coney days ... only days as a schoolboy that I could afford to dine at A&W

90: The view up the wall

The retaining wall was one of the last things associated with the view of Eu Villa from Wilkie / Sophia Road to disappear - having been brought crashing down in 2010.

91: Rex backlanes

Well known for food!Backlanes around Rex Cinema

92: The tiger on Short Street / Selegie Road

The former Tiger Balm building

93: SJI Brothers' Quarters and Canteen

(Demolished) The Tuckshop was on the ground floor of the building that housed the Brothers' Quarters

94: North Bridge Road (1966)

North Bridge Road (1966) ... wall of Raffles Institution seen on left of the picture.

95: Stamford Road Memories

Memories of Stamford Road

96: Queen Street Memories

Queen Street Memories

97: Victoria Street Memories

Victoria Street Memories

98: Waterloo Street Memories

Waterloo Street Memories

99: Church of Sts. Peter and Paul

Church was referred to as the "Chinese Church"

100: Swee Kee Chicken Rice

Home of Hainanese Chicken Rice on Middle Road - Swee Kee at 51 Middle Road

101: St. Joseph's Church

St. Joseph's Church (Portuguese Mission) – Memories connected with Queen Street

102: Noordin Lane

A lost lane between Waterloo and Bencoolen Streets.