Sunday, March 20, 2022

4019. Redhill Close and Galaxy Theatre - history


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



 

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