tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post2593445207722571651..comments2024-03-28T15:13:45.925+08:00Comments on Good Morning Yesterday: Schools @ Tiong BahruUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-1359442470169581882012-06-24T18:09:07.229+08:002012-06-24T18:09:07.229+08:00No lah CS. It's that Yong Nguk LIn whom many ...No lah CS. It's that Yong Nguk LIn whom many call him to be the 6 million dollar man, not the bionic man but the man who "wasted" govt money with his crazy park n ride scheme.peternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-82455396954584975582012-06-24T14:34:05.353+08:002012-06-24T14:34:05.353+08:00Without checking, I would say that the Fringe Car ...Without checking, I would say that the Fringe Car Park / CBD idea was from Yeo Ning Hong. So now we have 3 different answers. Haha. Strange how time plays tricks with our memories.Lam Chun Seehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01762020157703342970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-84613317996607203622012-06-24T11:56:13.534+08:002012-06-24T11:56:13.534+08:00I thought Fringe carpark was the idea of the then ...I thought Fringe carpark was the idea of the then Minister Yong York Lin? Yes, I can recall that the little brickhouse is the depot office for City Shuttle Bus Service.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09221540735500778742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-46775552631908304612010-05-06T17:34:29.788+08:002010-05-06T17:34:29.788+08:00I grew up in Bt Ho Swee Estate. The heavy vehicle ...I grew up in Bt Ho Swee Estate. The heavy vehicle park was one of several fringe carparks at which motorists were encouraged to leave their car and then take buses to their workplaces. I think the litle brick building was used by the carpark wardens as a rest area and to store supplies. BTW the fringe carpark idea came from S. Dhanabalan. Never worked, though. This particular one used to flood whenever it rained heavily.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-13629382500567924202009-09-01T10:09:40.847+08:002009-09-01T10:09:40.847+08:00Kar Heng. Thanks for the invitation. I suppose it ...Kar Heng. Thanks for the invitation. I suppose it is extended more to some of the readers here like Peter and Victor than to me. TB is really not my 'territory'. Never lived here, or worked here except for those King's Theatre days. <br /><br />Nowadays, only go there ocassionally for lunch with my PSB friends. Very difficult to find parking :(Lam Chun Seehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01762020157703342970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-64339999400941877962009-08-31T22:45:42.274+08:002009-08-31T22:45:42.274+08:00Hi, may I invite u to join us at TBSS group at
ht...Hi, may I invite u to join us at TBSS group at<br /><br />http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=50842525103<br /><br />Thanks<br /><br />Regards<br />Kar HengKar Henghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01004722561609674099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-52183222050893498782009-02-27T14:43:00.000+08:002009-02-27T14:43:00.000+08:00HiI had my secondary education at Tiong Bahru Seco...Hi<BR/><BR/>I had my secondary education at Tiong Bahru Secondary School from 1969 - 1972, ie the same site where SEAB is now. I remember that one of my classmate stays in the school compound. Her father is a jaga of the the school and the whole family stays with him in a small house just after the school main gate. There is Delta Circus <BR/>Primary School on the left. Across<BR/>the road are Bukit Ho Swee Secondary School and Bukit Ho Swee<BR/>Technical School.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-77209892771770411902009-02-26T13:56:00.000+08:002009-02-26T13:56:00.000+08:00Hi, chanced upon your blog and read this entry. My...Hi, chanced upon your blog and read this entry. My grandparents used to run a stall in the canteen of Delta Circus school till the late 80s (name of school may have changed by then). <BR/><BR/>My grandfather would pick me up after my Nursery classes at YWCA, Outram Road and bring me over to the stall. <BR/><BR/>I remember sitting behind the stall on little stools watching my grandmother selling food to the hungry students while I eat.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for bringing me back down on memory lane!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-43658466982836347212008-12-19T16:06:00.000+08:002008-12-19T16:06:00.000+08:00chun see, i went to the same car-park (entrance fr...chun see, i went to the same car-park (entrance from alexandra rd) to have a look at the old building, with bird nest ferns and trees growing on its roof. where delta house now stands was the s'pore steam laundry. could the old building be the old sub-station? the newer structure next to it is a sub-station for the alexandra incinerator.yghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07054865524193859788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-70889698943362314432008-11-27T22:30:00.000+08:002008-11-27T22:30:00.000+08:00Chun See,There were 2 such bdlgs and form a part o...Chun See,<BR/>There were 2 such bdlgs and form a part of the sewerage farm. The one in your photo was a store house facing Delta House. The other was nearer to Henderson Road. In-between were the round sewerage tanks.<BR/><BR/>Have u heard the word "septic tank". I often heard this word used to describe the concrete tanks built in the housing estate to collect all the human waste before sending it to the sewerage works; something like pooling together all the human waste from the different households.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-12082299873002726662008-11-14T20:52:00.000+08:002008-11-14T20:52:00.000+08:00Hey. None of you able to tell me what that buildin...Hey. None of you able to tell me what that building is?Lam Chun Seehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01762020157703342970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-61415902912405497902008-11-09T21:48:00.000+08:002008-11-09T21:48:00.000+08:00I have just added a 1981 map showing those 2 schoo...I have just added a 1981 map showing those 2 schools. But I don't remember seeing that food centre near the road junction.Lam Chun Seehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01762020157703342970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-52417977218610442892008-11-09T16:11:00.000+08:002008-11-09T16:11:00.000+08:00Although I lived in a landed property, I was broug...Although I lived in a landed property, I was brought up as a "farm boy". It was my duty every morning to walk around the garden to look for dog-shit. I had to collect them and dumped into one corner of our garden to dry them in the sun. I used watering can to "wash" the dog-shit prior to sunning. Once sunned and hardened I had to mix them with black soil. The end-result = plant fertilizer which was used for our fruit trees - chiku, rambutan and papaya. The harvested fruits had such sweet flavour but I am not sure whether it was due to the man-made fertilizer or not. So I was not terrified by the stench from those sewerage treatment plants. There used to be one at Ulu Pandan in Clementi West Estate, behind Clementi Park. Not sure whether still there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-29728246696085980522008-11-08T23:10:00.000+08:002008-11-08T23:10:00.000+08:00When I was a little kid I remember seeing the sewe...When I was a little kid I remember seeing the sewerage plant.It was then located at the site opposite Tiong Bahru Plaza. The design of the sewerage plant was circular and it contained tons of human waste. It was constantly kept moist by water rotating mechanism.Most people were seen holding their breath whenever they passed the place.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-53045221845568564732008-11-08T22:46:00.000+08:002008-11-08T22:46:00.000+08:00Delta sec used to stand at the current psb academy...Delta sec used to stand at the current psb academy ground.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-63742858539846817172008-11-07T19:57:00.000+08:002008-11-07T19:57:00.000+08:00peter is right. there were these sewarage circular...peter is right. there were these sewarage circular tanks near jalan membina barat. when i visited my uncles and aunties, who continued to live in tiong bahru after the big fire, i could see the tanks and smell the sewage.<BR/><BR/>seab (s'pore exams & assessment board) has two centres. the one along lower delta road used to be tiong bahru sec sch. the admin centre of seab is along jalan bt ho swee. i think - i am not very sure - it occupies the premises of the former bt ho swee pri sch.<BR/>psb academy was either bt ho swee sec or delta sec.yghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07054865524193859788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-72514037088232540132008-11-07T17:20:00.000+08:002008-11-07T17:20:00.000+08:00My late father told me that it was called "Sewerag...My late father told me that it was called "Sewerage Farm" and was built before WW2. It was to serve Tiong Bahru SIT Estate, a military cantonment at Prince Charles Avenue and the army depot (Hewlett-Packard factory now) at Depot Road.<BR/><BR/>There were 2 sites for this sewerage plant; the one in your map and the other diagonally opposite at the corner of Tiong Bahru Road and what is now the new Lower delta Road (towards Jalan Membina Barat)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-29290104870253806892008-11-07T16:29:00.000+08:002008-11-07T16:29:00.000+08:00I didn't know the sewerage plant was at this locat...I didn't know the sewerage plant was at this location.Lam Chun Seehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01762020157703342970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-92212506945538200322008-11-07T16:28:00.000+08:002008-11-07T16:28:00.000+08:00I remember as a kid seeing this sewerage plant whe...I remember as a kid seeing this sewerage plant whenever we visited our relative who lived in Redhill. Quite smelly right?<BR/><BR/>My relavtives flat must be SIT and not HDB becos I was very young then. That was when I saw them using the string and pail method to purhcase food from the ground floor shops - something Victor blogged about early in his blog.Lam Chun Seehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01762020157703342970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760936.post-11448156650773480202008-11-07T16:14:00.000+08:002008-11-07T16:14:00.000+08:00I am not sure what was the use of the building but...I am not sure what was the use of the building but I do know that the site was once a sewerage treatment plant. At that time back in the 1960sm, there was no road which linked Tiong Bahru Road to Alexandra Road.<BR/><BR/>There were large circular-looking concrete tanks filled with granite aggregates. In each tank, there was a long metal pipe with water dripping all the time as it turned round and round the tank.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com