Jalan Besar shophouse, at Sam Leong Road corner : general view [1]



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07 Dec 1986

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This 1986 photograph shows a Jalan Besar shophouse (dated 1930), at Sam Leong Road corner. The three-storey shophouse features French windows with timber louvred shutters on the upper floors, and a pillared five-foot way on the ground floor. "Wong Hiap Guan Coffee Shop" occupies the unit on the ground floor. Title devised by Library staff.


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Jalan Besar (Singapore)--Photographs

Shophouses--Singapore--Jalan Besar--Photographs

Architecture--Details--Photographs

Coffee shops--Singapore--Jalan Besar--Photographs

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Commercial buildings

Architecture

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All rights reserved. Lee Kip Lin and National Library Board, Singapore 2009.

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