This 1982 photograph shows flats at Kampong Bahru Road, opposite Singapore General Hospital. Kampong Bahru means new village in Malay, and is so named because of the disappearance of the old Kampong Lama. Kampong Bahru Road is near Jalan Bukit Merah. Title devised by Library staff.

Credit Line

All rights reserved. Lee Kip Lin and National Library Board, Singapore 2009.

Subjects

• Bukit Merah (Singapore)--Photographs
• Apartments--Singapore--Bukit Merah--Photographs