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This is an aerial view of South Winds Hotel at Tanjong Balai in Jurong. In 1941, it was home to the Special Operations Executive Special Training School 101 of the British to train people for anti-Japanese guerrilla work in Malaya. In December 1948, it became South Winds Hotel which was later bought over by Mr. Lee Kong Chian, a Hokkien philanthropist and rubber merchant. In 1951, he donated the resort hotel to the Government that became the home and rehabilitation centre of Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association (SATA) for incurable tuberculosis patients in 1954. The rehabilitation centre was closed, and the site became part of Jurong Industrial Estate Development Plan after 1960. Title devised by Library staff.