Margaret Drive reminescence

The cinemas cum bowling alley. This was the exact spot where the 2nd level flat of 242A was built on. The four storey SIT block was one of the many in the neighbourhood.  I have a dumb and mute friend by the name of Micheal who stayed on the 3rd storey.

The entrance of my primary school, Birkhall Road Primary

This field was exactly the same as I have played on during my Birkhall days in the 60s. It was really big and it was really good for hatam bola as we could run and roll on the tall grass during recess.

The Queenstown Polyclinic. There was a bus stop nearby where my father alighted from the bus daily

Opening Ceremony of Queenstown Polyclinic in the 60s

Queenstown Library circa 2011

 The famous Block 39A circa 2011

 NTUC Fairprice Supermarket 2011

The site where  NTUC Fairprice was circa 2013

Below are the images of Birkhall Road School in the 60s. The riot police suggested the tumultous period of racial disharmony back then.

View of the shanty stall that used to sell coffee and titbits along Margaret Drive

Queenstown in its heydays

I lived in Margaret Drive from about 1959 to 1963 at 242 Margeret Drive, one of the 4 storeyed SIT blocks. The large canal was behind my house. The market was on the right side of the block. It was torn down soon after I moved to Bukit Ho Swee in 1964. A cinema was built on the very site where my house was.
It was in the Margaret Drive area where many of my classmates lived especially those who attended Birkhall Primary and Tangln Integrated Secondary Technical School (TISTS).
If you visit the area now, you will see vast empty spaces ready for development. Already, the Dawson Road area is full of new blocks now.