Posted April 22, 20178 yr Staff Sometime around 1976, the government standardised the numbering of homes. Around the British times, a ground floor unit for eg. Is numbered say No. 20. A unit above this is numbered 20A, the 3rd storey is numbered 20B. But the folly of this is if it is a high rise exceeding 20Z, what happens? Before 1976 (thereabouts): a flat address could be Block B, unit 508. But after 1976 onwards this flat is known as Blk B, #06-08. The government added an additional storey: the ground floor unit or for HDB flats with a void deck is added to the count. This is why 508 changed: where the 5 = 06 and 08 remains as the stack number. Photos of homes numbered under the colonial days. These homes are at Katong, Chapel Road.
April 23, 20178 yr Author Staff Some of these homes are frozen in the era of the 1940s, 1950s to 1960s...
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