Drift Like A Ghost Around The 1950s

Описание: SIT Apartments, Old Schools and a Famous Hawker Centre at Monk’s Hill

It is a quiet neighbourhood tucked away in a small district bounded by the Bukit Timah Road, Cavenagh Road and Clemenceau Avenue. Over here, one can find several blocks of Singapore Trust Improvement (SIT) apartments, built by the colonial government in the mid-fifties for the civil servants.

In terms of designs, the black and white apartments are unlike any SIT flats found elsewhere in Singapore. Spacious with high ceilings, wide balconies and tall rectangular windows, the apartments, made up of a total of 120 residential units, were previously owned by the Public Utilities Board (PUB). Today, they are managed by the state and are rented out to individuals or families on 2-year renewable leases.

The origin of the name Monk’s Hill has several variations. According to Singapore Street Names: A Study of Toponymics, it was supposedly named after the residence of a resident named Carnie, who had lived there in the 1860s. Another possible version is that Monk’s Hill, as its name suggests, was formerly a small hill, and on it stood a Chinese monastery.

In the late 1920s, the SIT carried out the excavation of the hill, offering the contractor 10 cents per cubic yard of earth excavated. Almost 100,000 cubic yard (approximately 76,455 cubic metre) of earth was shipped to fill the Balestier Road area. By the early 1930s, Monk’s Hill was leveled with a canal constructed through it.

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