I was 5 years old living in this street at 9:30-11:00. At 9:53, it was a provision shop directly opposite my house. I was very much hoping for the camera to turn towards the other side, perhaps capturing me, or my extended family. It didn't, but the video itself was good enough. I can show people this was how the place looked like when I was growing up. I can proudly say my memory remains well. The tyre shop, charcoal warehouse, tailor shop, rice warehouses, vehicles, temple and shrine are exactly how I remembered them to be.

I lived in Singapore with my parents at RAF Seleter from 1967 to 1971. I married there and had my first daughter Samantha at Changi Hospital. Loved Singapore, the people the culture. So many happy memories.

Thank you so much for this nostalgic video of old (just about 35+ years). Has to be before 1986 because one of the building still under construction next to the OCBC Centre captured in your video along Chulia St / George St, the Singapore Telecom, SingTel building (a.k.a. City Telecoms Centre, or Pickering Operation Centre) was completed only in that year. Crazy how much has changed in Singapore in just under 4 decades. By the way, you were riding on what we call a trishaw. Love the video. Pity we couldn’t see streets more clearly but I could guess by recognisable landmarks. You were mostly meandering around what is now known as China Square / Far East Square area. This enclave was dominated by Hokkien businesses and many illegal activities then.

I could still remember when I was a little boy, about eight years old, I used to eat from the street hawkers selling Yong Tau Foo, Beef Noodle, Mee Pok and Char Kway Teow all were my favourites. Soup noodles is only 20cents and dried mee pok is 30cents and now a great difference. The buses travelling from place to place in Singapore, especially The Singapore Traction Company, Tay Koh Yat Bus Company and The Hock Lee Bus Company etc. and we paid only 5cents and the most were 25cents to travel whole of Singapore. Times past really fast and I am 69 years old next month. Thank you, for sharing this video the good old days and memories from the past 60's 70's and The 80's.

Wow! These old and nostalgic pictures are truly awesome and impressive. I remember I was only 5 years old back then. Singapore's landscape had changed so much. Old buildings were torn down. Shophouses nowadays become extinct although there are still a few but these handful of them had been rejunevated and given a new coat of paint. Everything in Singapore including the coffee shops and hawker centres had been given a makeover. It is modernization right at this moment of time in the year 2017 and beyond! How time flies quickly for myself!

Thank you for capturing the old Singapore in the 80s. Very nostalgic.

Wow looks at those old Red White SBS buses and TiBS Trans Island Bus Services 4:16-4:21 and was it 5:13-5:23 Thieves Market - buying & selling...plus sound of old motorcycle 16:23👌 Thank you Sir! Great Nostalgic Footage..

Old memories fade away. Truly singapore. Wish we could go back in 1985. Live simply,

In the 80s making a movie recording was a luxury and only tourist like Duggan was able to do so due to their financial strength.......Even though it was not well prepared to make a proper movie, nevertheless it did record the valuable historical buildings and way of life in those days.....watching it is like turning 35 years back to the Republic.....Well done Duggan...........!

Thank you so much for sharing this . Amazing that l can see the old two storey shop house that I was staying @6:30. This bought back many wonderful memories, very much appreciated.

I manage to see the house that I stayed before on the starting of the video.

My first trip to Singapore was in 2003, just over 15 years after this film was made. I recognized a few of the streets, and the modern tall buildings, but otherwise, nothing. I can't believe how the slum that was Singapore completely disappeared in that short interval. The structures of the buildings is still there (in some places), but the trash is gone, the clutter is gone, the facades are repaired. Thank you, Prime Minister Lee. You had a thankless job, and whatever the faults of your democracy, you cleaned up that messy island and turned in into a beautiful diamond. Cannot wait to return!

thank you for filming this. really brings back memories. This whole chinatown area was a living breathing community, but it is now so sterilised of real activity.....it has been turned into a tourist area, full of overpriced gimmicky shops, and hardly any business. And I believe those shophouses no longer house any residents anymore.

Most of the shophouses appeared in the video already being refurbished only some are demolished. The 2 Chinese Temple, Hawker Centre and Indian Muslim heritage centre still standstill in the exact location ( Amoy street ). Many thanks to these wonderful and memorable shot that have been take by you, Mr Lyman Duggan.

Thank you for sharing these scenes of Singapore. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

thanks for the upload. it brings us back in time..miss those younger days

Thank you for sharing this nostalgic video..😉

Thanks for sharing. This are the street and place I grow up.

Just returned from Singapore after a 50 year gap , how well they have done to produce such a thriving city

Thank you so much for the video.. many memories for us

great video. thx for the posting. this should be the year of my second visit to singapore. since then i knew singaporeans are nice, friendly people. when they knew that i was from hong kong they will friendly called me hong kong son. how sweet those memory. i went to singapore again in 2012 and didn't see any more tricyle down the street

Thanks for the upload. All these seem so long ago....In my memories

Your video are priceless ❤️

Thank you for sharing! It was a nice trip down memory lane for me 😊

Thank you for the video sir!

Goodness!! I've spotted our grandparents old shop house and old neighbourhood at Amoy Street!! Thank you for the video. My grandma just passed away one month ago :(

Amazing! Thanks for this!

Many thanks for sharing this video. Brings back memories of British Singapore.Bustling Hawkers, Trisha Riders etc.-Kachang Putih,Rojak,Ice Kachang, Popiah, Chedol.

Thanks for this. Little would you know then that the areas you visited in and around Chinatown would undergo massive and rapid gentrification. In some cases entire streets quite literally disappeared altogether (China square area). Buildings such as Hong Lim Complex and Hong Leong Building opposite Lau Pa Sat look like anachronisms now, but we see how clean and modern they were at that time. This is great in preserving the scenes and sounds that existed just a generation ago.

When I was a kid,I would open the bus window.hahahahahaha

That's about how it looked when I visited in 2000. So much has changed!

i was 22 years. my life was at a crossroad. what profession should i choose? teacher or technician. cars , people and building here bring me back those years. very thankful for the videos.

Amoy Street, China Street ,Peking Street I can see the prompt travel,I think this flim should.be record in between late 70－early mid 80. thanks for upload it

I love old singapore.. If i can go back in 90s i will be happy and can see old singapore...

Thanks for sharing this rare video. The last 10 sec of the video is China Street. I used to live in Synagogue street. In the video, at 15:48 it is a telecom building "Pickering Operations Complex" (under construction so it was around 1985). It is at the side of Synagogue street. I was 9 yrs old.

That was the years when i am one of them involved in the construction of the OUB Centre, the tallest building in Asia at that times.

Can still get this ol chinatown vibe 'morning rush 'in Penang island even that thief/junk market still around (evening), like time stand still

The actual date of the video should be around 1975-1976, based on the OCBC building was still incomplete.

I was 9 years old in 1985. from the video i can tell the locations is chinatown, tanjong pagar area where i am working now. still can see some familiar building otherwise, it quite a different downtown area. when i near 50s, always getting nostalgic

Lolz. I recognize the Telok Ayer area, the mosque, Thian Hock Keng, Amoy street hawker center... some places seems familiar.. but not too sure... I do know the Chinatown area.. and seems like the Arab street area too...

Gone are the days..where life was slow and steady.... Now life like show biz ...where everyone gones to work chasing after wealth and fame...and fells like Our Singapore like over populated..😭 miss those early 80 where when we move around anywhere we only see our original people around.Now like Rojak ready.

Those are the day when every things is cheap not any more the rich getting riches and the poor will stay poorer thank you for sharing , 2--12--18.

COOL.

Very nice to see but it wasn't as romantic as some people here try to let us believe. A lot of poverty, dirty neighborhoods, terrible housing, rats, flooded kampungs, etc.

its notcalleed cyclo ridebut trishaw ride!

The kids in this video are parents now. 35 years later the cars have changed but the shops are still preserved

wow ... people hang up all clothes there like that.. nice adventure ., ps..this video i can writing comment .. under.. :D

Nowadays people dont say hello anymore

OCBC Building was under construction in the video. Construction started in 1975 and finished 1976. So this video was likely taken sometime then.

in this video i heaven born yet

This should be around 1982-1984 my guess

Singapore was truly a third world country back then. Amazing how its changed in such a short span of time.

Was that man whistling "Within you'll remain" by Tokyo Square at 1:07 to 1:20? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/md-kgrSqktqzlJs.html

Why this trishaw moved again traffic repeatedly.

that's the coffee shop i was born ...13:48...thank you

0:32

Lorong pisang..

36 years ago. We cannot see man in history bag , with bootcut pants walking on the road a the old Yamaha RXK 135

What happened to malay vilagers?why government made them move out and let rich chinese from china take over everything

Amoy street

i was only 5yo in 1985. lmao

Rickshaw rider should be dead by now...

2021 Chinese New Year update. Chinatown is now completely devoid of any occupants staying in the shop house . Now is a commercial place and a tourist trap. At night it's a ghost town save from a few mainland Chinese eatery or near Smith Street market. The government has successfully move out anyone who is not rich, out of the area. Unless you are the few lucky ones who happens to owns the public housing before they have lost their hearts. If you are buying the public flats which have around 50years lease , be prepared to fork out at least average half a million in resale market. The tall condominium in the beginning of the video which is brand new in 1980s (landmark towers) is torn down this year. Unlike the video which is fiill with life and people, Chinatown is dead after office hours as compared with in the 80s. FYI you will still see many poor old folks pushing carts with paper boxes as a form of recycling to earn some money. However the official statement is these folks are doing it as a form of exercise.

Old dirty Chinatown