MARKET SCENES IN CHINATOWN
Picture of a wet market scene at Sago Street in Chinatown. The row of shophouses on the right is still around. Tai Chong Kok was at Sago Street. The pre-war Singapore Improvement Trust (S.I.T.) flats built by the British Colonial Government and available for rent only is at the top left corner of the picture.  A Chinese provision shop selling biscuits and confectionery is on the ground floor of an older part of a Chinatown building.  A butcher stall faces a row of vegetable stalls (picture).
23/07/1964
19980000437 - 0064
A5235/02/15
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Ministry of Information and the Arts Collection, courtesy of National Archives of Singapore
Updated with contribution from Jerome Lim on 5 March 2021.

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Picture of a wet market scene at Sago Street in Chinatown. The row of shophouses on the right is still around. Tai Chong Kok was at Sago Street. The pre-war Singapore Improvement Trust (S.I.T.) flats built by the British Colonial Government and available for rent only is at the top left corner of the picture.  A Chinese provision shop selling biscuits and confectionery is on the ground floor of an older part of a Chinatown building.  A butcher stall faces a row of vegetable stalls (picture).

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