One of the oldest departmental store: John Little's at Raffles Place, Singapore circa. 1930's - PRE-WAR

My grandfather's retail shop was located at 4A, 4B Change Alley. Change Alley is a row of shop houses facing a medium sized alley much like those still found in Egypt. A very popular tourist belt: the equivalent of the Collyer Quay/Funan square of the past: selling everything from radios, electric items.

A must visit as it is facing the Collyer Quay wharf - for embarking / disembarking ships.

Raffles Place in the 1960's. In the 1960's a 1 level basement car-park was built underground below the square.
The photo also shows the tallest building in South-East Asia in the 1930's. Another prominent building: the Merchantile Bank building that replaced the Union Bank building. Today, this Merchantile Bank building had been torn down.

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On 1/18/2010 12:20:40 AM, Anonymous wrote:
My grandfather's retail shop
was located at 4A, 4B Change
Alley. Change Alley is a row
of shop houses facing a medium
sized alley much like those
still found in Egypt. A very
popular tourist belt: the
equivalent of the Collyer
Quay/Funan square of the past:
selling everything from
radios, electric items.
A must visit as it is facing
the Collyer Quay wharf - for
embarking / disembarking
ships.

Collyer Quay in the 1920's

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On 5/31/2011 10:46:17 PM, Anonymous wrote:
Raffles Place in the 1960's. In the
1960's a 1 level basement car-park was
built underground below the square. The
photo also shows the tallest building in
South-East Asia in the 1930's. Another
prominent building: the Merchantile Bank
building that replaced the Union Bank
building. Today, this Merchantile Bank
building had been torn down.On 1/18/2010
12:20:40 AM, Cecil Lee wrote: >My
grandfather's retail shop >was
located at 4A, 4B Change >Alley.
Change Alley is a row >of shop houses
facing a medium >sized alley much
like those >still found in Egypt. A
very >popular tourist belt: the
equivalent of the Collyer
Quay/Funan square of the past:
selling everything from >radios,
electric items. >A must visit as it
is facing >the Collyer Quay wharf -
for >embarking / disembarking
ships.

Raffles Place & Robinson Road between 1910 to 1930’s