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This is a 1950s photograph of the road at Connaught Drive. Next to the road is the Esplanade, now the Padang, where the Old Supreme Court is overlooking it towards the right of the photograph. The Singapore Cricket Club is located on the left, next to the Old Supreme Court. Part of a compiled album, with a label : "PHOTOGRAPHS BY : R.K. TYERS. Staff STRAITS STEAMSHIP CO., LTD. SINGAPORE." Title devised by Library staff.
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- All rights reserved. Lee Kip Lin and National Library Board, Singapore 2009.
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