This 1982 photograph shows Kampong Bahru Road, from near Neil Road junction towards Keppel Road, with shophouses on the left. 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.

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

Subjects

• Architecture and Landscape>>Streets and Places
• Architecture and Landscape>>Building Types>>Commercial Buildings
• Architecture and Landscape>>Building Types>>Residential Buildings
• Bukit Merah (Singapore)--Photographs
• Streets--Singapore--Bukit Merah--Photographs
• Shophouses--Singapore--Bukit Merah--Photographs