Tag:singapore
It’s trickier to find the bird sitting on the wire in this image than the two caged birds in the image I posted yesterday, but it’s there. You might need to click on the image to go over to my Smugmug version and enlarge from there.
There are two birds sitting in a cage outside one of the windows here – actually there’s a second cage but I can’t see how many birds are in that one. There’s also an electric desk fan hung outside one of the windows to provide a drying breeze in case mother nature decides not to. The ragged tarpaulins and corrugated iron sheets enclose a produce/grocery store.
A young man walks down the street accompanied by his mother. They pass workers having lunch in the cafe’s. They’re forced to walk in the road because the sidewalk was seized long ago by the cafe and store owners to expand their mini empires.
As I mentioned yesterday, about a month after I took this photo, the restoration order was published in the paper and over the next several years they set about restoring this row of former warehouses and stores into cafes, bars and shops. If you were to look at the same view today, you’d notice many of the rook lines remain the same but there’s a degree more homogenization and cleanliness about the place. No more bushes growing in the gutters.
About a month before I took this photo this area was gazetted for preservation and transformation to new business. Now the area looks well maintained, the roofs all made of a consistent red clay material replacing the rusted corrugated iron and other tile roofs and the area is a hive of restaurants, bars and shops.
I’ve no idea where yesterday’s photo was taken but I know that today’s photo shows part of Telok Ayer Street because the street name is on one of the buildings. You won’t find this scene now – these buildings are long gone.
