“Geylang used to be quite industrial and some areas that were less looked after, such as the one depicted here. I have other pictures of Geylang from that time that don’t look as extreme, this one just happens to be very striking,” said the netizen
SINGAPORE: An online user who has been sharing old photographs taken by a relative back in the day, has been winning the hearts of Singaporeans one nostalgic scene at a time. The netizen recently took to an online forum to share a photo of a slum area in Geylang back in 1975. Many online users took to the comments section to join the conversation.
“Here’s a photograph taken by my grandfather Dr. Ivan Polunin in 1975,” the netizen shared in the comments section of the post. “This is a photo of a slum area of Geylang, I was quite shocked when I saw this image initially and never thought this could have been Singapore! Geylang used to be quite industrial and some areas that were less looked after, such as the one depicted here.
“Geylang, an area located on the eastern side of Singapore, has a more controversial history compared to other neighbourhoods,” the caption read. “It was originally home to a rural community of rubber and coconut farmers in the 40s, after which urbanisation caused a shift in demographics, with Malays settling down their kampongs on the eastern side of what is now known as Geylang Serai, and Chinese on the western side towards the Kallang River.
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