tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post6414603756882762441..comments2024-03-28T15:13:45.925+08:00Comments on Good Morning Yesterday: Ex-British Servicemen visit Good Morning YesterdayUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-8674799763865525352012-01-07T07:46:48.819+08:002012-01-07T07:46:48.819+08:00I am posting several Singapore postcards on EBAy w...I am posting several Singapore postcards on EBAy which many are real photos if anyone is interested. Many old views such as Malay Kampongs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-21389604350169964182008-09-11T16:19:00.000+08:002008-09-11T16:19:00.000+08:00Icemoon why not Hill 117?Like to try another one? ...Icemoon why not Hill 117?<BR/><BR/>Like to try another one? What was on the grounds of the present SAF School of Signals in Jalan Teck Whye?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-86942097300764759992008-09-11T16:03:00.000+08:002008-09-11T16:03:00.000+08:00No military vehicle can access the the hilly area ...No military vehicle can access the the hilly area south of Cho Chu kang Road although the hills were closer to Choa Chu Kang. <BR/><BR/>During my NS days in the early 70s when we did outdoor training, the "ration truck" must always enter from Jurong Road. So Hong Kah Road was the only way to get inside. Hong Kah Road was a short metalled road; once inside you travel on dirt track. <BR/><BR/>On foot you can walk on Cho Chu kang and turn into BULIM to head south. I remember the brick-making factory called Jurong Brickworks if I am not wrong was there. One of the hills was our point to collect instructions for the next part of the journey in "Ex. Red Beret". After this point you walk inside the Hong kaj area heading westwards to cross Jalan Bahar into a small metalled road that now leads into NTU and then head northwards in the direction of SAFTI MI before ending just before the fence behind Charlie Company. Charlie Company is now School of Military Intelligence and is located south of this bridge that links old SAFTI to SAFTI - bdlg is still there on the right.<BR/><BR/>S Icemoon you suspect Hill 140?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-16181569795412070332008-09-11T10:54:00.000+08:002008-09-11T10:54:00.000+08:00I think I found out where the Roger Hatchy photo w...I think I found out where the Roger Hatchy photo was taken. If not, the clues should be sufficient for the oldies to pinpoint it down to the hill. Read it in my blog.Icemoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08174805596607457468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-21114121424996121282008-09-05T17:33:00.000+08:002008-09-05T17:33:00.000+08:00The photo that Roger-Hatchey put up shows a ridge....The photo that Roger-Hatchey put up shows a ridge. If you zoom in closely, you can see the radar station. This is the back of Bukit Gombak from the Choa Chu Kang side. Then somewhere between the ridge and the gun is a small village. That one is the Tengah Village which was between RAF Tengah and Keat Hong Camp. I think there is a SHELL staiton there (last few decades) and in the same place today. Opposite is the new SAF Logistic (???) or Singapore Police Training School. Behind the police training school was the old BULIM area, the Chinese cemetery and brick manufacturing factory at Hong Kah.<BR/><BR/>From other photos that Ken and friends took, some of them were taken right of the air strip facing Johore, north of Tengah Village.<BR/><BR/>I checked the photos that Ken mentioned which came from RAF 63 Sqdn, the location is definitely Chestnut Drive. In fact I can see an abandoned bungalow house (in one of the photo) at the junction of Chestnut Drive and Chestnut Crescent - house #44 today which was once my uncle's house.<BR/><BR/>Wah this is so exciting trying to find old places.<BR/><BR/>The ones that belong to Ken's unit at Tengah is a surprise because I never knew there were AA guns in/around Tengah when I was small boy. So the only think I can recognize is the ridge.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-54017518163851026642008-09-04T10:50:00.000+08:002008-09-04T10:50:00.000+08:00Frankly, I wouldn't have believd that that photo b...Frankly, I wouldn't have believd that that photo by Roger Hatchy was taken in Spore. Didn't know that we had such a long 'mountain' range. On the other hand, until I joined <A HREF="http://goodmorningyesterday.blogspot.com/2006/08/jog-down-memory-lane.html" REL="nofollow">Safti</A>, I never knew Spore had so many high hills.Lam Chun Seehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01762020157703342970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-23221924315241227322008-09-04T05:57:00.000+08:002008-09-04T05:57:00.000+08:00"The New CHPQ on pg 5" of that web site - was repl..."The New CHPQ on pg 5" of that web site - was replaced by the SMU's Computer Science faculty (corner of Bencoolen Street and Bras Basah Road). In that photo, it has Cathay Cinema in the background. In front of that MP was the former Waterloo Street which connected Bras Basah Road to Stamford Road. Now is a part of SMU's garden.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com