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My Queenstown Heritage Trail featuring Tanglin Halt Posted By admin On October 22, 2014 @ 2:38 pm In Past Activities,Tours | No Comments |
We are happy to announce our next event in collaboration with one of Singapore’s most active community heritage organisations, My Queenstown [1] (a part of My Community), who recently launched the My Queenstown Blueprint 2020 [2].
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My Queenstown Heritage Trail featuring Tanglin Halt [4]
Sunday, 26 October 2014
9am to 11.30am
Meeting Point: Queenstown MRT Station
Conducted by: My Community, Guide: Ms Angela Ow
Free but open to SHS members only.
Limited to: 25 participants
To register, please email shs.secretary@gmail.com [5]
It was announced in June that Tanglin Halt will be HDB’s largest Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme (SERS) to date [6]. It is one of Singapore’s oldest housing estates and one where many of the original residents (some from the kampong that predates the HDB estate) still live and work. It is this deeply-rooted sense of community that residents cherish the most — read more here: http://business.asiaone.com/news/tanglin-halt-residents-its-hard-leave [7]
As their monthly free heritage trails are always fully-booked, My Queenstown-My Community are kindly organising a special tour for SHS members that will include Tanglin Halt.
Here is a blog report about the trail:
http://oceanskies79places.blogspot.sg/2014/07/my-queenstown-heritage-trail-charms-of.html [8]
We hope you will join us for this opportunity to visit this heritage estate and meet its residents.
Article printed from Singapore Heritage Society: https://www.singaporeheritage.org
URL to article: https://www.singaporeheritage.org/?p=3613
URLs in this post:
[1] My Queenstown: http://www.queenstown.org.sg/
[2] My Queenstown Blueprint 2020: http://www.queenstown.org.sg/blueprint2020.html
[3] Image: http://www.singaporeheritage.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/queenstown-trail.jpg
[4] My Queenstown Heritage Trail featuring Tanglin Halt: http://www.queenstown.org.sg/heritage.html
[5] shs.secretary@gmail.com: mailto:shs.secretary@gmail.com
[6] Tanglin Halt will be HDB’s largest Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme (SERS) to date: http://www.stproperty.sg/articles-property/singapore-property-news/queenstown-area-set-for-biggest-sers-project-to-date/a/170498
[7] http://business.asiaone.com/news/tanglin-halt-residents-its-hard-leave: http://business.asiaone.com/news/tanglin-halt-residents-its-hard-leave
[8] http://oceanskies79places.blogspot.sg/2014/07/my-queenstown-heritage-trail-charms-of.html: http://oceanskies79places.blogspot.sg/2014/07/my-queenstown-heritage-trail-charms-of.html
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