Old Singapore 60 years ago

[@kionz]

Thanks so much Michael, you are showing many young Singaporeans a piece of our own history that is rarely glimpsed in Singapore today! I expect the no. of views to skyrocket!

[@ziaohaha]

Mr. Michael Rogge, you're Singapore's son. You had preserved many of her yesteryears' charms. We, young and old Singaporeans are always grateful to you. Difficult and time-consuming efforts and a great accomplishment to make history in cinema. We will never be able to thank you enough. May God bless you always. We love Singapore!

[@skalikat]

Thanks for capturing my country in such vivid splendour so many years ago . This is a gem !

[@SANNEDEE]

You must have heard it many times but I still want to say THANK YOU for this great archive! Knowing that these videos came from your first hand experience, gives me the chills. God Bless!

[@chatalaine]

This is the Singapore that I loved as a child. Thank you for sharing!

[@dimitriosfromgreece4227]

Love from sweden Stockholm ❤❤❤

[@Xbred284]

Thanks for uploading this! Brings back a strong sense of nostalgia for my parents and it gives me a glimpse of my country in a time long before my birth!

[@leonidas_stanescu]

I am married to a Singaporean lady for a few years already. As you can imagine I visited it for a few times also. I love Singapore and I just watched this (i guess can be considered as ) documentary clip. Is amazing how it changed in such a short time. Thank you very much for shareing it with us.

[@holmbank52]

Wow. Great record. I arrived as a 13 yr old child on a troopship (SS Oxfordshire) with my parents in 1959. Left in 1962 but returned many times. It is great to see this recording. Thanks

[@imkellythegreat]

Thanks for posting this video. I realize the big changes happened to our country. I'm really grateful to get a chance to take a glimpse in the past.

[@hansenheng3687]

Thank you Sir! I love watching old footage, especially those from the 1980s. Singapore was no less charming in those days than it is now, and I hope to show my children such scenes when they grow up!

[@malcolmleslie3911]

very good, I was there 1965--69, R.A.F Changi then Tengah. Went back in '13, what a difference, only the road names, the humidity and THE RAIN are the same!!! Going back this November '2018.

[@SuperModerngranny]

Thank you so much Michael. So much memories here.....time for the younger generation to have a glimpse into the past and how we have changed. Most of all, what they should never take for granted.

[@xxxdieselyyy2]

If you want to glimpse the past , come visit any street in Chennai today. Not a VIP area but a hood. That was SG 60 years back.

[@SuperModerngranny]

@@xxxdieselyyy2 I don't think it's the same. India is India, Singapore is a country of mixed culture.

[@michaelijsbrand]

I only visited Singapore in 1949 and 1961 for a few days. I spent more time in Hong Kong and Japan.

[@aisyahaisyah9256]

Thanks Mr Michaelrogge this in video I not yet born..maybe my mom also not yet merry with my father

[@maliksultan1848]

U can consult me upon opening up visiit but me busy..tc

[@jemmeteo]

Michael thank you for capturing those years. Priceless!

[@terryofford4977]

Micheal, You did a wonderful job with your camera, Singapore is STILL and always will remain a major part of my life, I was first there with the RAF in 1956,60 then 1967,-70 the 1973-76,then for many years I go back there last trip two years ago,so I am quite thrilled to see how it was on my first stay, until recently.Wonderful job,well done and thank you. Terry Offord

[@michaelijsbrand]

Many thanks. Great to hear that the clip has revived your dear memories.

[@philiplow1609]

Thank you Michael. Brings back lots of fond memories.

[@aishaodonnell3743]

Thanks for sharing, I was born in Singapore 1947, got married in 1970 and living in NZ since, wonderful Memories of what you posted Singapore will always be a big part in my life but NZ is my home and I am always great full to be a Singaporean

[@TXMEDRGR]

My wife was living with her family in Singapore in 1962, her father owned a furniture store in the area shown in the film. She relates a lot of wonderful stories about growing up in Singapore.

[@BarbaraLake]

This is the Singapore that I knew. Thank you!

[@goodcomrades2485]

Me too

[@ExoXeno]

teenager here :) how I wish I was in the old singapore

[@buantiang3811]

Hey Michael, thanks for sharing. Its a good clip. No music, but i finish watching my countries olden days!

[@wee7472]

Thanks for capturing this, it bring back memories of my childhood of 19 years by the river along North Boat Quay. I was 3 years old back then staying in one of those old houses by the river. I used to go down to the river to catch small little fishes and sea cockraches during low tide, played marbles with the boys. Went up on those tongkangs, watched the collies played in gambling dens, watched the praying and performance during 7th months. I remember 1 year, there was 3 stages on the same night and we had to shuttle to and fro whenever a famous singer come on each stage. I helped my parents who were hawkers and enjoyed picking up those items dropped from the sacks carried by the coolies from tongkangs to the lorries. I stayed in one of those shop house where the ground floor was used as a store and a big python was kept for catching rats. Witnessed a big fire on a tongkang in the middle of the river and retrievals of dead bodies who jumped. It was an exciting childhood but had some narrow escapes for a young girl during that time.

[@michaelijsbrand]

Thanks for your reminiscences. They give a fresh dimension to the pictures.

[@ernyruff]

Wonderful old Singapore : ) I was lucky to return for a holiday stop after thirty years, wow what a change, old houses cleared and only a few remain for the tourists. Some parts feel so clinical,I was amazed to be up Mount Faber at dusk and not hear one cricket. It was so lovely to go back all the same, thanks so much for sharing : )

[@muchachoCDMX]

I was born in Singapore in 1967 and lived there until 1975. Thanks for uploading this!

[@DJRAVE81]

Thank u so much for this glimpse of the past. I was truly shocked and amazed !

[@sese75kenneth12]

A great nostalgic video ever taken, thanks Michael!

[@weeliano]

Absolutely amazingly good footage for a 8mm camera! Must be a good camera and great lens! Brought back memories for my mum when she saw it. To me it looks like time travelling back in time, very vivid and colourful images! Thank you for uploading this!

[@jenn5033]

Thanks. This video is truly a treasure!

[@shangnui]

All your clips brought back so many memories, till now I am staying in Chinatown, but it nothing like yesterday. Thank U Sir for your sharing.

[@iamtangoVII]

As a young Singaporean of 30, I thank you for keeping the memory of my country's past! Cheers!

[@roberthuffstutter8776]

You are truly a historian and photo journalist from the old school. Thank you.

[@luism.bogaert3585]

Singapore is a country that the rest of the world should imitate. A success story when all the resources are focused on education.

[@ViralBytes2010]

Hello Michael, I lived on Pulau Brani back in the late 50's / early 60's, a small island directly opposite the entrance to Singapore's main harbour - Kepel Harbour. I recently went back, huge mistake... none of what I knew even exists today, the island is now flatterned and is one huge container terminal and Jardine Steps, where we went every day to school is no longer... Ah, the price of progress.....

[@tansihan9677]

It has changed a lot ;( who still misses the old days where early in the morning you can say hi to your friends

[@cherylelsey4789]

So many happy wonderful memories of sunny Singapore. I was 18yrs old when I arrived at RAF Changi with my parents. My father squadron Leader Dennis Norton was MOT Officer at RAF Seleter. I married at Seleter to a pilot on 66 squadron and had my first child at Changi Hospital. Loved Seleter, it was like living in paradise and I never wanted to leave. Happy daysx

[@rashidahhalim6389]

Michael, thank you for capturing our memories. Yes, you are an angel.

[@tanst6]

The trishaw I used to take, the busy Singapore River bank I used to walk along, the street hawkers..., my childhood memory :) Thank you for the "treasure video"

[@sparkiejev]

Thanks for the videos! They are real gems.

[@Angelyoon]

I am from Spore, I love all your videos. Thank you Mr Michael. :D

[@tyleroakley7308]

Travel back in time to a very different Singapore. It was a more humble, simple laid back but as lively bustling typical dusty Asian city.

[@annecorey607]

I know is places well used to go there every weeks one of my aunties live near by I left Singapore in 1959 .We do go home as often as we can our last visits was 3 years ago I can not afford to live there any more , I still got families out there thank you for your video is good ..

[@sucathwa8000]

I was there in 1968. What an incredible experience for an 19 y.o Australian girl straight out of sshool. Best time of my life!

[@MAKCHEEKIONG]

Thank you for the precious memory captured. Wonderful! Mak - 1961

[@verac6731]

I was born in Singapore in 1961 when my father was stationed there with the British Army. So nice to see a film About Singapore around that time!

[@kenhowh3094]

This is great! So nostalgic for me, a Singaporean who grew up in Singapore in the 1960s-80s! Ken

[@mindawareness]

my mum love to see this.thanks to the uploader.

[@marylim2011]

a piece of treasure to keep forever. Thanks for sharing.

[@theravster3363]

I remember all the places. Thanks for the memory!

[@richardjones7984]

Thanks for the video which brings back great memories. I remember thre local bean vendor walking down our road every day with his yolk and pans of fresh runner beans. The traditional Chinese clothing of blue smock and black trousers reminds me of our Armah Eng, who always dressed like that. She was a lovely old lady who taught me how to cook rice.

[@michaelijsbrand]

Thanks for the memory !

[@premacharitra1]

thank you for this video Sir......I really appreciate our Singapore in olden days.....thank you...

[@philipkhoo]

Fantastic! Thank you for putting this up!

[@singaporesingapore9729]

HI THANK YOU MICHAEL,,,,,i was 7 years old in 1962.....just started school. and i remember the street stalls selling drinks,roadside barber...and the view from the sea.. Asia Building..21 storey high...highest on the island....Thank you for the memories

[@apachekemosabe]

Thanks for uploading this video.

[@Singapom888]

Wonderful movie, thank you so much for uploading. Impressive amount of traffic - in pre air-con days!

[@MrMsi786]

I have seen the olden days. I really love than now. I really miss the time enjoy in kampong, attap house and many more. Without computer, playing on the sand.

[@shahransherry]

love to see yesteryear in colour like travelling back in time . Love watching the cars mostly made in England & hardly seen any Japanese cars . Also seen myself a tram like my mom told me about my grandfather used to ride

[@MrThreedots]

I stay in Chinatown and I still cross the Elgin Bridge to work everyday, so this is so very interesting to me! Thank you!

[@OperafanSingapore]

another priceless 5.46 mins of video. THANK you for sharing..

[@FritzSG1]

oh wow!.. thank you for the uploads.. it was really really great to see the "old" Singapore.. ;-)

[@Singapom888]

This is a lovely little film.. The laughing young girl is very sweet, adds a nice atmosphere. The smells would have been interesting, especially so close to the River!

[@tmgasia]

lol! the river stank... I remember going by it as a child, but I'll say, people were warmer and kinder then.

[@ynikshia5986]

That's what makes it a great part of Singapore. a blind person knows he is home just because of the River and whenever the breeze comes by at all times

[@zainudinrahmat]

Thank you Mr Kees Renard Singaporean are proud and of you to keep our heritage.

[@unknownhuman3926]

LOVE IT!! I look mostly different from then and now... I wanna go back in time...

[@alvinlim1622]

Yes.. and u would want to come back to the future immediately. Lived in one of the shophouses around Rocher (currently Bugis Junction) and hated it.

[@gundamkola01]

Thanks Michael for sharing to we, young Singaporeans such precious vintage video! ninjagirlsSG brought me here. We should be glad with the current Singapore. :)

[@Tekhelet75]

Fantastic. These are precious treasures of Singapore.

[@baldevJi]

A few years before I was born but the early 70s were same as i remember. Thanks

[@michaelijsbrand]

Great that you could see evidence of all your father's stories!

[@ayulshippo6571]

Thank you sir for sharing this memories

[@AmbientWalking]

So difficult to see Singapore in this light. Everything has changed so much.

[@michaelijsbrand]

@greatguy52. Thanks for your comment. I lived in the old Asia from 1949 till 1961, but am not an expert to write a book about it. I keep to the saying that a picture, and especially a moving one, says more than a thousand words!

[@skjijean]

thank you for this :-)

[@Wingburner]

Priceless! Thanks!

[@sharima28]

I love the old times how it looks

[@X79Nitro]

4:27 to 4:37 Priceless!! Really hope those children could see it now...Probably their Children..

[@Stargoeswither]

1:04 the building at the right behind the shophouses is where the OCBC centre now stand

[@xqvvn]

Now, our Singapore turning 54 in 3 days later.... I wish u a very Happy and Advanced Birthday!

[@lesleyparsons343]

This is just how I remember it when we arrived in October on board SS Chusan. Wonderful memories. Thank you.

[@thmsrttg]

Great video! Perfect for my Art Homework on the old Singapore

[@ah13554]

Lovely memories of old lambeth walk spring to mind never forget take care of your memories for you cannot relive them that's why I never went back another place another time

[@michaelijsbrand]

My returns to the old places were full of sadness of times gone by.

[@valerym1400]

Old Singapore was very energetic city. No wonder they succeeded.

[@marylim2011]

Life was so simple than. I wish I could go back in time to relive the early 60's.

[@GJaga]

amazing. Should be a national treasure. Thanks.

[@silverwood0429]

Michael, You are the angel!

[@mingyaowu7720]

Oh mine!. You need to come back to Singapore and see how much it had changed.

[@vijayanvk645]

Singapore is a good place to live and the people there were very good and remebering those days I had visit there in 1970 when I were live in Malayasia with my parents.

[@leelengkok9201]

Thank you Sir！With this video clip, we slap someone's face who claimed that Singapore is still a fishing village during the 1950s...

[@trumptrump1525]

Lee Leng Kok Haha

[@johnchua1087]

Lee Leng Kok: What the author (Michael) film here is only a small section of the best part of Singapore. Besides, the stench smell along boat quay is unbearable then, if he had took a trip down to chua chu kang, lim chu kang, bedok, tampines area...etc that would have been a different video. Singapore in those days were really in bad condition, The reason I knew better than the author is that I lived through it.Citizens above 55 can really tell the difference then and now.The younger generation of Singaporeans do not learn to appreciate what they see now in Singapore. They just complain and take things for granted, Likewise the so call new immigrants. It's sad but its true.

[@johnchua1087]

sih1688 The government are elected officials by the people (including you if you are eligible Singaporean), I do not care who runs the country as long as they run it with honesty, dignity and are for the good of the country and its people. As your point to Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, I believe they can decide on their own and it is for them to decide and nobody else. As for the British, I am glad they leave, you think with the British around Singapore can be developed? For the years my parents. grand parents live under the British rule, all that is there are racial segregation, they have done 90 percent as far as economy is concerned for their queen in UK and perhaps 10 percent for this tiny island. HDB does not exist until the board was form in the early 1960s after Singapore gain self governance. Singapore is too tiny to accommodate the growing populations and majority of them were living in squatters (at lease I am and my friends I knew are), the government public housing policy gives everyone a fair chance to live comfortably with proper sanitation. Moreover, we do not have to worry about the constant flooding especially during the monsoon season. You or your parents (if you are Singaporean) can only appreciate how much the government had done. Yes, there are policies that I do not agree with the government and I am NOT a PAP supporter, but you have to give credit when it is due regardless of which surname rule the country. If you are rich enough and you want free hold land, I am sure any country that allows freehold land to its citizen will welcome you. As far as Singapore is concern, the government has made the right decision to eliminate freehold status for the good of all future Singaporeans.

[@nigelwoodford3188]

Thank you so much! I wonder what it would have sounded like.

[@Iamnotlulu]

Thank you

[@michaelijsbrand]

Thanks. Where in the clip can I find that girl? At 4.30 ? How old is she now? My best regards to her !

[@singaporethomasgiam5608]

thank you it is priceless

[@jae7239]

Hi Michael Rogger, Would like to enquire the procedure for copyright approval if we would like to request for the usage of footage for a permanent gallery to be showcased in Singapore. Look forward to your reply. Thank you.

[@michaelijsbrand]

So you have seen it in the good old times.

[@michaelijsbrand]

@silverwood0429 Who gave that away?

[@k0925sk]

Thx 4 sharing.

[@SiliconSoup]

I got to know the color of Singapore in 1962. Amazing!

[@dav7444]

My family moved there in 1964 and our Amah used to carry me on a pouch on her back.

[@suzyschwarz7023]

I remember and loved it

[@rayvictorlewis]

Interesting history to view!

[@simplewar]

It's like magic Singapore transformation now

[@sapientfury6781]

Singapore in 1962 looked amazing.

[@auraaurora191]

The Singapore in the past is way more better than the Singapore now . Things were cheap , people were friendlier . Life was simple back then , unlike now .

[@chriswade3694]

First arrived in 1955,Paya Lebar airport(spelling),aged 9 years.Left when I was 17 Years,Lived for a time on Pasir panjang road opposite West point Gardens and Police Station. Loved the Island,the food,Mah mee soup Satay Curries and chapaties,ice balls and the indian guys selling nuts in paper cones.Change alley,Ice cream with Lemonade.The Cold storage and not forgetting Steamed buns,Chinese Cakes which were sold by a man on a bike and Magnolia icecream

[@mikemorrissey6843]

Does anybody remember me or my Parents,we lived near gate 9,in the Police flats,I would like to hear from anybody who does.......

[@annabelj7339]

Police flats? Where? Of course I wasn't born 50 years ago. I was born about 33 years after, but just curious. My parents might.

[@robertm7502]

I was in the police flats (police academy)Thomson road from 1959-1965😊were u from there?