Naval Base Housing - The building of bungalows Wellington Road 192957 viewsThe build of Chargemans residences Wellington Road. Viewed from Admiralty Road East (Football grounds to the right in the picture)
Singapore Naval Base Housing - 29 Admiralty Road 196557 viewsA typical three bedroomed semidetached bungalow built around 1929. Allocated to civilian chargeman and similar grades along with their families on a posting to Singapore. At times. i.e. during the early days of the build of the base and post Japanese occupation when families were not present. These properties were allocated to three or four single men who were usually on an unaccompanied two year posting. During Japanese occupation some of these bungalows were used as workshops.
Naval Base Housing - The building of bungalows on Canada Road 192956 viewsBuild of bungalows on Canada Road as viewed from Admiralty Road East
Singapore Naval Base Housing - Wellington Road 199851 viewsView of housing on Wellington Road. Picture taken from the same spot as the photo taken in 1929 showing the houses under construction. In 1998 these houses were leased to the US Navy for their staff and families. It was interesting to learn that 'folklore' amongst the USN families was that these houses were built by the Japanese during occupation for their officers using forced British labour. The logic - each house had a 'Geisha' room at the rear. I guess it did look like a Geisha room but it was actually there for the Amah!
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