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Raffle's five foot walkway as laid out in the 1822 plan for the city.
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Thian Hock Keng Temple
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Guard at the gate
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Inside the Temple
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Goddess of the Seas - Ma Zu
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Goddess of Mercy - Guan Shi Yin Sa
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General Xie - Bai Wu Chang
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General Fan- Hei Wu Chang
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An elegant, restored shophouse.
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The old and the new. Shophouse shutters open on a modern building.
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Shophouses sell in the $1,000,000 plus range.
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A typically litter free Chinatown and Singapore street.
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Inside a Chinese medicine shop.
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Sidewalk inlay
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At the wet market.
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Shop selling items for the afterlife.
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Passport, travel ticket, credit card and other necessities of life traditionally are cremated with the dead in order to provide in the afterlife.
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Afterlife credit card.
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One shop in Chinatown still makes noodles by hand.
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Christmas attired busker in Chinatown. We later saw him in Little India.
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At the entry to the Chinese Heritage Centre Shophouse Museum
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Impoverished Chinese emigrated to find new opportunities even as the penalty for doing so was death by beheading.
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Peasnts of the sort who came to Singapore - The Lion City
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Shophouse were the common form of building for Chinese merchants. They were two or three story, long and narrow structures with the shop and merchant's living quarters on the main level and small rooms on the upper floors that were rented out. This is a prostitute's room.
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The small dark cubicles of the shophouses held up to 10 people.
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Long hallway with rooms off to the right.
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This is it - the total living space for one or a large family.
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.jpg "A street hawker's room with some of his wares.")
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A street hawker's room with some of his wares.
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A room on the light well. Notice the opium pipe on the table, often used to get through a day of hard labour.
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This is more typical of the lighting. Other shots were taken with flash so the rooms appear much brighter than they are.
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This room was at the front and had light from a window. It was shared by five women who used it on a rotating basis. Women often worked in construction as some of these did.
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There wee two rooms with windows at the front of the shophouse facing the street.
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shophouse tenants kitchen
This is the common kitchen for all the tenants. Privies at the back. A bucket was used that was taken to the street.
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THis is the lower level kitchen for the exclusive use of the shophouse owner.
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Another view of the owner's kitchen.
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Privies in the open ligh well. These wells were placed near the middle of the building to let in light and air.
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Shophouse owner's quarters.
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The shophouse owner's bedroom.
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The work area. Children were brouht here for care while the parents worked.
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An old machine of the make and type still sold and used today. I believe it stitches along the edge of a garmet and overcasts as well.
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The retail shop at the front of the shophouse.
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Another view of the work area.
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Shophouses
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Chinatown MRT (subway) station.
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.jpg "A street hawker's room with some of his wares.")
