Memories of Singapore

Check out this link:
http://www.singas.co.uk/index.html

The pictorial efforts are by our British Forces friends who served here before the bases were shut down by Britain's 'East of the Suez' policy - that was probably completed in 1971.

I remember the NAAFI (Navy, Army, Air Force) personnel and their vehicles, the air-conditioned convenience stores much like the 7-Eleven store but with a touch of Britain. I remember the cinema at Gillman Barracks, Alexandra Road, where I caught a few movies. I remember the barber and tailor shops next to Capitol Cinema which served the British servicemen - the tailor was the father of a classmate. I remember Wessex and Sussex Estates and Changi where the servicemen and their families were housed. Then again, there were the black-and-white bungalows and apartments occupied by these servicemen. I lived in one such ground-floor apartment at Sloane Court at Ayer Rajah Road back in 1972 or '73 after the British withdrawal from Singapore.

Singapore was much different then but I do miss those days :-)