Curtains are down for Redhill Close Estate as
demolition of the blocks will be completed
by end of 2022. Occupants had been given new
residences in Bukit Merah in 2011.
Front view. Note common corridors are on floor 3, 5 and 7
only. The arched facades were not present on the
original Singapore Improvement Trust (SIT) flats built in 1955.

Back view. Residents in the 1950s would drop a rope with a tethered basket and
money inside to pay and carry up sweets or food from itinerant
hawkers, clicking their sticks to announce their arrivals
Galaxy Theatre was part of low red hills and pig farms
opposite the SIT flats (left) in the 1950s.

HDB took over the functions of SIT (Singapore Improvement Trust)
to build public housing. An HDB 4-storey mixed use development
with residences upstairs and commercial units on the first floor
Redhill Close was an SIT project.
It is one of the oldest housing estates in Singapore
www.shutterstock.com/g/toapayohvets have some images
of Redhill Close estate.
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Curtains are down for Redhill Close Estate as
demolition of the blocks will be completed
by end of 2022. Occupants had been given new
residences in Bukit Merah in 2011.
Front view. Note common corridors are on floor 3, 5 and 7
only. The arched facades were not present on the
original Singapore Improvement Trust (SIT) flats built in 1955.
Back view. Residents in the 1950s would drop a rope with a tethered basket and
money inside to pay and carry up sweets or food from itinerant
hawkers, clicking their sticks to announce their arrivals
Galaxy Theatre was part of low red hills and pig farms
opposite the SIT flats (left) in the 1950s.
HDB took over the functions of SIT (Singapore Improvement Trust)
to build public housing. An HDB 4-storey mixed use development
with residences upstairs and commercial units on the first floor
Redhill Close was an SIT project.
It is one of the oldest housing estates in Singapore
www.shutterstock.com/g/toapayohvets
have some aerial view
of Redhill Close estate.
MORE INFORMATION AT:
https://2010vets.blogspot.com/2022/03/4019-redhill-close-and-galaxy-theatre.html
Redhill Close was declared for Selective
En-bloc Redevelopment Scheme (SERS) back in 2011. The small SIT housing
estate was built in 1955, almost seven decades ago. Sometimes known as
Redhill Estate in its early days, it was originally made up of 22 blocks
that simply numbered 1 to 22. The blocks, fondly known as chek lau chu
(“seven storey house” in Hokkien) by the locals, were built within and
along a closed loop (also named Redhill Close) accessible from the main
Jalan Bukit Merah.
Then-Governor of Singapore Sir Robert
Black (1906-1999) toured the newly-built Redhill Close in August 1955,
shortly after he took office. He also visited other SIT estates at
Queenstown, Tiong Bahru and Outram.