Built 1947 as Singapore's first post-war Singapore Improvement Trust flats.
The last tenants moved out in October 2012.
Photo taken 21 October 2012.
The flats were demolished the following year.
The site is now a vacant field.
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Bukit Brown Cemetery opened 1922.
Closed 1973.
Photo of the cemetery gates at Lorong Halwa taken 4 February 2012.
The gates were removed in 2015 and this part of the cemetery expunged for eight-lane Lornie Highway which will slice the cemetery in half.
The gates have been restored and reinstalled at a new access road near its original location.
The Keretapi Tanah Melayu (KTM) tracks between Tanjong Pagar and Bukit Timah stations opened 1932.
Closed 1 July 2011.
Photo taken 9 July 2011 under the Mass Rapid Transit viaduct between Buona Vista and Commonwealth MRT stations.
The tracks were eventually removed and returned to Malaysia.
The vacant strip of land is now part of the Rail Corridor.
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