Aerial Photo
PART OF A SERIES OF AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS FROM NORTH TO SOUTH SHOWING: BUKIT TIMAH NATURE RESERVE, CENTRAL WESTERN PART OF SINGAPORE
This is the British Ordnance Base (BOD) at 12ms Choa Chu Kang Road (right centre).The base is also known as Keat Hong Camp and was later used by the SAF General Supply Base. It was there fresh conscripts for National Service went to collect their uniforms, boots and other items that were put in a duffel bag, on their way to Basic Military Training. The granite quarries at bottom right are the Seng Hup Quarry (left) and Ideal Home Quarry (right) along Jalan Perang. The farmland on the left is West Bukit Timah region which would become Bukit Gombak HDB new Town in future.
29/12/1956
20120000689 - 0045
165551
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Aerial photographs by the British Royal Air Force between 1940 to 1970s, from a collection held by the National Archives of Singapore. Crown copyright.
Updated with contribution from James Tann on 14/10/2019 and Beng Tang on 22/06/2020 and on 16 Feb 2021.

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This is the British Ordnance Base (BOD) at 12ms Choa Chu Kang Road (right centre).The base is also known as Keat Hong Camp and was later used by the SAF General Supply Base. It was there fresh conscripts for National Service went to collect their uniforms, boots and other items that were put in a duffel bag, on their way to Basic Military Training. The granite quarries at bottom right are the Seng Hup Quarry (left) and Ideal Home Quarry (right) along Jalan Perang. The farmland on the left is West Bukit Timah region which would become Bukit Gombak HDB new Town in future.

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