Going back to the early 70s when I was working with a freight forwarding company where we had a garage at Tanglin Halt Road just at the junction with Commonwealth Avenue West and behind a Shell petrol kiosk, it brings back a lot of memories where once the Malayan Railway KTM used to chugged along Van Houten chocolate factory, Daiwa Industries and many more light industries can be found there Tanglin Halt Estate was one of the oldest which had undergone many changes over the years. It is the Selective En Bloc Redevelopment Scheme (SERS) that put a nail that seals the fate of the estate. The famous Market and Hawker Centre, old school shops with a total of over 3500 units of flats had to make way so that is when I decided to revisited that place to document some of the buildings for memory sake.
