Jump to content

[Reminiscence] from Yishun Dam to Jalan Kayu, through old Seletar


Scion
 Share

Recommended Posts

Supersonic
9 hours ago, SiLangKia said:

Photo from my time exploring Seletar 

 

 

20200506_222606.jpg

Seems like you like to go to ulu ulu places during dead night? 🤣

↡ Advertisement
  • Haha! 2
Link to post
Share on other sites

Internal Moderator
18 minutes ago, 13177 said:

Seems like you like to go to ulu ulu places during dead night? 🤣

finding other "silangkias" mah. 🤣

  • Haha! 2
Link to post
Share on other sites

Turbocharged
(edited)

13A3A627-A5CB-4D22-BA41-056A5C6E49C9.jpeg
 

Yishun dam was only accessible from Jalan Kayu side up to early 90s. There is a left turn before the main gate of Seletar dam into a maze of dirt roads. 1987 Map.

5A0C6C35-8690-4EF7-86CD-A6630E2E63CC.jpeg
 

Above map 1993 shows access from Yishun ave 1 while Jalan Kayu was closed.

For historical map aficionados, http://libmaps.nus.edu.sg, has an archive of historical Singapore maps.

 

Edited by The_Bear
  • Praise 6
  • Haha! 1
Link to post
Share on other sites

Not too sure the church near the camp old entrance / bus stop at roundabout is being torn down for relocation or rebuilding...

Link to post
Share on other sites

Internal Moderator
27 minutes ago, The_Bear said:

13A3A627-A5CB-4D22-BA41-056A5C6E49C9.jpeg
 

Yishun dam was only accessible from Jalan Kayu side up to early 90s. There is a left turn before the main gate of Seletar dam into a maze of dirt roads. 1987 Map.

5A0C6C35-8690-4EF7-86CD-A6630E2E63CC.jpeg
 

Above map 1993 shows access from Yishun ave 1 while Jalan Kayu was closed.

For historical map aficionados, http://libmaps.nus.edu.sg, has an archive of historical Singapore maps.

 

so much green!

  • Praise 1
Link to post
Share on other sites

1 hour ago, The_Bear said:

13A3A627-A5CB-4D22-BA41-056A5C6E49C9.jpeg
 

Yishun dam was only accessible from Jalan Kayu side up to early 90s. There is a left turn before the main gate of Seletar dam into a maze of dirt roads. 1987 Map.

5A0C6C35-8690-4EF7-86CD-A6630E2E63CC.jpeg
 

Above map 1993 shows access from Yishun ave 1 while Jalan Kayu was closed.

For historical map aficionados, http://libmaps.nus.edu.sg, has an archive of historical Singapore maps.

 

It was not dirt road. It was a wide paved road called West Camp Road that led to the dam from the left of guard post. It did become a narrow but still paved road when alongside the water's edge. Access from Jalan Kayu was never closed even in 1993. The broad road was gone, but there were small roads to still reach Seletar Club and the dam.

  • Praise 1
Link to post
Share on other sites

16 hours ago, mersaylee said:

Ahh... the dreadful Ammo guard duty shared by various units there...

good and bad experiences there...the good  was I got to learn more from people of other units like the guards and engineer units...SAR80 was a darn heavy rifle...night snacks were better than my own unit...

bad was the one super long to-and-fro route to prowl with no short cut at all...

heard some stories about that ammo dump...one was the shoot and kill incident...poor dog...

the going rate during the early 90s was $60 per guard duty. I only “sub” the job once because I lost around $100 at mahjong game a week before...hey...allowance then was only 250 per month hokay...

I was in Seletar East Camp before 1980. No ammo guard duty for me as a I do not think there was an ammo store there. Unless it was the store just for the Combat Engineers units.  I had to prowl to the Dome Trainer of the anti-aircraft 160Bn.  

  • Praise 1
Link to post
Share on other sites

Turbocharged
41 minutes ago, kobayashiGT said:

so much green!

The greens were Seletar camp censored due to security reasons 😂

  • Haha! 1
Link to post
Share on other sites

Turbocharged
(edited)
19 minutes ago, serenade said:

It was not dirt road. It was a wide paved road called West Camp Road that led to the dam from the left of guard post. It did become a narrow but still paved road when alongside the water's edge. Access from Jalan Kayu was never closed even in 1993. The broad road was gone, but there were small roads to still reach Seletar Club and the dam.

*my bad. Second map is 1998 showing access a from Jln Kayu is closed* 

Access is still available in 1993
 

Public access to dam was closed to vehicle traffic at one point (mid 90s to 2000s (?)iirc)from Jalan Kayu. It left only a pavement for pedestrians. 
 

My sister would drop me off from the dam side in the morning during my ICT in the late 90s. Then I walk along the path to the main gate.
 

Our convoy back to camp was stuck outside camp on the dam side because the officers had circa 1970s map. I have to inform them of the changes since. End up, we called the DO and have to wait for someone to open a side gate to enter the camp.

You can scroll through the maps of different years to verify that.

 

Edited by The_Bear
  • Praise 1
Link to post
Share on other sites

Turbocharged
1 hour ago, The_Bear said:

13A3A627-A5CB-4D22-BA41-056A5C6E49C9.jpeg
 

Yishun dam was only accessible from Jalan Kayu side up to early 90s. There is a left turn before the main gate of Seletar dam into a maze of dirt roads. 1987 Map.

 

 

 

wow, so Yishun dam was actually originally accessible from only one side (the Seletar).... interesting

oh yes, there were huge forested areas near Yishun dam and along Yishun ave 6 until only recent years

now is a new Yishun neighbourhood (red boundary)

yishun.jpg.50d82896f52cf6ef1b9b535c935cce92.jpg

  • Praise 1
Link to post
Share on other sites

1 hour ago, serenade said:

I was in Seletar East Camp before 1980. No ammo guard duty for me as a I do not think there was an ammo store there. Unless it was the store just for the Combat Engineers units.  I had to prowl to the Dome Trainer of the anti-aircraft 160Bn.  

Before80? Wow! Pioneer or at least Merdeka card holder...respect aplenty from me.

The said ammo dump not too large an area compared to the one at PLA...but to prowl on foot till the end and back would take exactly 2hrs. Maybe the route also included 1st Transport and the Guards units which were nearby...never bothered to verify then...just go thru motion to get it over and done with while watching out for wild dogs 

hmmm...maybe the ammo was for the AA guns 

the dome was part of my unit guard duty route during my time...that’s the last check point before heading back to guard house then go again for round two of the same route...DO liked to ambush there to see if we had made double entry on the little black note book without going round two. 


 

 

 

Link to post
Share on other sites

24 minutes ago, mersaylee said:

Before80? Wow! Pioneer or at least Merdeka card holder...respect aplenty from me.

The said ammo dump not too large an area compared to the one at PLA...but to prowl on foot till the end and back would take exactly 2hrs. Maybe the route also included 1st Transport and the Guards units which were nearby...never bothered to verify then...just go thru motion to get it over and done with while watching out for wild dogs 

hmmm...maybe the ammo was for the AA guns 

the dome was part of my unit guard duty route during my time...that’s the last check point before heading back to guard house then go again for round two of the same route...DO liked to ambush there to see if we had made double entry on the little black note book without going round two. 


 

 

 

Just wondering, you all do prowling duties take 2 hours and so big area? During my time, in different camps, the prowling route is normally only 1 hour long. Then handover. If more than 1 hour, you will not know what happened to the prowlers. 

Link to post
Share on other sites

47 minutes ago, Adrianli said:

Just wondering, you all do prowling duties take 2 hours and so big area? During my time, in different camps, the prowling route is normally only 1 hour long. Then handover. If more than 1 hour, you will not know what happened to the prowlers. 

We carried WT...more for our duty guard sergeant to alert us if DO had left the guard house...

only once, had to scramble back to erase...ahem...kekeke

Link to post
Share on other sites

Turbocharged

a comparison of Yishun Ave 1 (leading to Yishun Dam) in 2008 and 2019

 

1993318539_yishunave1.thumb.jpg.a7fe5c93e60b0ee7a708d94ca8d0ab59.jpg

  • Praise 2
Link to post
Share on other sites

Turbocharged

the quiet curved road just before reaching Yishun dam in 2008

yishun2.thumb.jpg.a0cc715af858bf152442b816fa0ce895.jpg

  • Praise 2
Link to post
Share on other sites

(edited)

Can I be super off topic ?

I took this photos or the old Seletar Hawker Center in 2004  (where Greenwich Mall now sits).

During my NS days, the MacDonald's was the closet thing to civilisation for us.

1308758491_Picture024.jpg.6d0a1596723724a8671adda9cfed9163.jpg1998393630_Picture018.jpg.a66c900008e2706f919afcdb6b171ed2.jpg1444488946_Picture074.jpg.2122e2f784635a217ede20c3bbe33dd4.jpg1024719734_Picture071.jpg.0243b9dc354b94fa3d4dcaf622f86c81.jpg1084729108_Picture076.jpg.0db386983da429ff34721518b5052d22.jpg169435120_Picture075.jpg.15a5b3043b44896fc23432644e00672c.jpg

Picture 018.jpg

Edited by Davidklt
  • Praise 11
Link to post
Share on other sites

Old Seletar Airport and some of the old lampposts (no more now) + the ex Sunset Grill compound.

Taken in 2007.

86568981_Picture236.thumb.jpg.2b018de215234640c1b3a4f90d82937b.jpg1695173111_Picture235.thumb.jpg.c605da4aabc09f6cdfbdc751c426b3cf.jpg1051282370_Picture231.thumb.jpg.a6a6f112740aec50a03e574d551683e7.jpg

↡ Advertisement
  • Praise 5
Link to post
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share

×
×
  • Create New...