Photo Gallery: Singaporeans relive past with NLB's memory project
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Ms Petrina Edema (right), then 9, poses in this 1975 photograph with her mother, Ms Olive Edema (centre), then 34, and brother Mr Ian Edema, then 4, outside the National Theatre after a visit to the Van Kleef Aquarium. -- PHOTO: PETRINA EDEMA
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Ms Tan Bee Hua at Tan's Tu Tu Coconut Cake at Block 22B Havelock Road on Aug 7, 2012. Kueh tu tu (or tutu) is a Singapore delicacy made from rice flour. It is filled with either grated coconut or coarsely chopped toasted groundnuts. The kueh is rapidly steamed and served on a piece of pandan leaf. -- ST PHOTO: LIM SIN THAI
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Ms Tan Bee Hua at Tan's Tu Tu Coconut Cake at Block 22B Havelock Road on Aug 7, 2012. Kueh tu tu (or tutu) is a Singapore delicacy made from rice flour. It is filled with either grated coconut or coarsely chopped toasted groundnuts. The kueh is rapidly steamed and served on a piece of pandan leaf. -- ST PHOTO: LIM SIN THAI
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Ms Tan Bee Hua at Tan's Tu Tu Coconut Cake at Block 22B Havelock Road on Aug 7, 2012. Kueh tu tu (or tutu) is a Singapore delicacy made from rice flour. It is filled with either grated coconut or coarsely chopped toasted groundnuts. The kueh is rapidly steamed and served on a piece of pandan leaf. -- ST PHOTO: LIM SIN THAI
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Ms Tan Bee Hua at Tan's Tu Tu Coconut Cake at Block 22B Havelock Road on Aug 7, 2012. Kueh tu tu (or tutu) is a Singapore delicacy made from rice flour. It is filled with either grated coconut or coarsely chopped toasted groundnuts. The kueh is rapidly steamed and served on a piece of pandan leaf. -- ST PHOTO: LIM SIN THAI
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Ms Tan Bee Hua at Tan's Tu Tu Coconut Cake at Block 22B Havelock Road on Aug 7, 2012. Kueh tu tu (or tutu) is a Singapore delicacy made from rice flour. It is filled with either grated coconut or coarsely chopped toasted groundnuts. The kueh is rapidly steamed and served on a piece of pandan leaf. -- ST PHOTO: LIM SIN THAI
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Tu Tu kueh stalls in the 50s to 70s can be recognised by the iconic mobile tricycle stall. In the early days the stalls were commonly found in People's Park Square, Chinatown, Wayang shows, Pasar Malams, etc. -- PHOTO: JACKY TAN
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Tu Tu kueh stalls in the 50s to 70s can be recognised by the iconic mobile tricycle stall. In the early days the stalls were commonly found in People's Park Square, Chinatown, Wayang shows, Pasar Malams, etc. -- PHOTO: JACKY TAN
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Tu Tu kueh stalls in the 50s to 70s can be recognised by the iconic mobile tricycle stall. In the early days the stalls were commonly found in People's Park Square, Chinatown, Wayang shows, Pasar Malams, etc. -- PHOTO: JACKY TAN
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Tu Tu kueh stalls in the 50s to 70s can be recognised by the iconic mobile tricycle stall. In the early days the stalls were commonly found in People's Park Square, Chinatown, Wayang shows, Pasar Malams, etc. -- PHOTO: JACKY TAN
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Mr Yeo Hong Eng, then 20, was part of the Singapore Teachers' Union contingent which marched in Singapore's first National Day Parade on Aug 9, 1966, in a scanned image which he submitted to the Singapore Memory Project. -- PHOTO: STU MENTOR MAGAZINE
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Mr Yeo Hong Eng (in foreground), now 66, with his Hougang Primary School class at a National Education show for this year's Parade. -- PHOTO: LIM LI TIANG
Ms Petrina Edema (right), then 9, poses in this 1975 photograph with her mother, Ms Olive Edema (centre), then 34, and brother Mr Ian Edema, then 4, outside the National Theatre after a visit to the Van Kleef Aquarium. -- PHOTO: PETRINA EDEMA
Ms Tan Bee Hua at Tan's Tu Tu Coconut Cake at Block 22B Havelock Road on Aug 7, 2012. Kueh tu tu (or tutu) is a Singapore delicacy made from rice flour. It is filled with either grated coconut or coarsely chopped toasted groundnuts. The kueh is rapidly steamed and served on a piece of pandan leaf. -- ST PHOTO: LIM SIN THAI
Ms Tan Bee Hua at Tan's Tu Tu Coconut Cake at Block 22B Havelock Road on Aug 7, 2012. Kueh tu tu (or tutu) is a Singapore delicacy made from rice flour. It is filled with either grated coconut or coarsely chopped toasted groundnuts. The kueh is rapidly steamed and served on a piece of pandan leaf. -- ST PHOTO: LIM SIN THAI
Ms Tan Bee Hua at Tan's Tu Tu Coconut Cake at Block 22B Havelock Road on Aug 7, 2012. Kueh tu tu (or tutu) is a Singapore delicacy made from rice flour. It is filled with either grated coconut or coarsely chopped toasted groundnuts. The kueh is rapidly steamed and served on a piece of pandan leaf. -- ST PHOTO: LIM SIN THAI
Ms Tan Bee Hua at Tan's Tu Tu Coconut Cake at Block 22B Havelock Road on Aug 7, 2012. Kueh tu tu (or tutu) is a Singapore delicacy made from rice flour. It is filled with either grated coconut or coarsely chopped toasted groundnuts. The kueh is rapidly steamed and served on a piece of pandan leaf. -- ST PHOTO: LIM SIN THAI
Ms Tan Bee Hua at Tan's Tu Tu Coconut Cake at Block 22B Havelock Road on Aug 7, 2012. Kueh tu tu (or tutu) is a Singapore delicacy made from rice flour. It is filled with either grated coconut or coarsely chopped toasted groundnuts. The kueh is rapidly steamed and served on a piece of pandan leaf. -- ST PHOTO: LIM SIN THAI
Tu Tu kueh stalls in the 50s to 70s can be recognised by the iconic mobile tricycle stall. In the early days the stalls were commonly found in People's Park Square, Chinatown, Wayang shows, Pasar Malams, etc. -- PHOTO: JACKY TAN
Tu Tu kueh stalls in the 50s to 70s can be recognised by the iconic mobile tricycle stall. In the early days the stalls were commonly found in People's Park Square, Chinatown, Wayang shows, Pasar Malams, etc. -- PHOTO: JACKY TAN
Tu Tu kueh stalls in the 50s to 70s can be recognised by the iconic mobile tricycle stall. In the early days the stalls were commonly found in People's Park Square, Chinatown, Wayang shows, Pasar Malams, etc. -- PHOTO: JACKY TAN
Tu Tu kueh stalls in the 50s to 70s can be recognised by the iconic mobile tricycle stall. In the early days the stalls were commonly found in People's Park Square, Chinatown, Wayang shows, Pasar Malams, etc. -- PHOTO: JACKY TAN
Mr Yeo Hong Eng, then 20, was part of the Singapore Teachers' Union contingent which marched in Singapore's first National Day Parade on Aug 9, 1966, in a scanned image which he submitted to the Singapore Memory Project. -- PHOTO: STU MENTOR MAGAZINE
Mr Yeo Hong Eng (in foreground), now 66, with his Hougang Primary School class at a National Education show for this year's Parade. -- PHOTO: LIM LI TIANG
More than 300,000 entries of Singaporeans reminiscing the past have been gathered by NLB's Singapore Memory Project, one year since the project was launched. They include people reminiscing about places and events that no longer exist.
