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Queenstown Singapore Walking Tour【2019】/女皇镇新加坡徒步旅行【2019】
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2019
- Queenstown Singapore Walking Tour (2019) is a video recording of my walk with no talking. I highly recommend using headphones to experience 3D environment sounds as I recorded with binaural microphones.
Filmed using:
Camera: Osmo Pocket - amzn.to/309uju3
Extension Rod: Osmo Pocket Extension Rod - amzn.to/306xnqK
Audio Recorder: Zoom H1N - amzn.to/33TU7LO
Camera Charger: Osmo Pocket Charging Case - amzn.to/2EyQfY3
Editing Software: DaVinci Resolve - amzn.to/3j4ASp5
Queenstown Singapore Info:
Queenstown is a planning area and satellite residential town situated on the south-westernmost fringe of the Central Region of Singapore. It borders Bukit Timah to the north, Tanglin to the northeast, Bukit Merah to the east and southeast, as well as Clementi to the northwest and west. Its southern and southwesternmost limits are bounded by Selat Pandan.
Developed by the Singapore Improvement Trust in the 1950s and subsequently by the Housing and Development Board in the 1960s, Queenstown was the first satellite town to be built in the country. Most apartments within the township consist of a simple one, two, or three-room flats, typically in low-rise, walk-up blocks. Major development work was carried out during the first Five-Year Building Programme between 1960 and 1965. A total of 19,372 dwelling units were constructed between 1952 and 1968
Queenstown was named after Queen Elizabeth II to mark her coronation in 1952. The area was previously known by the Mandarin Chinese name Wu-wei-gang, or in Hokkien as Boh Beh Kang. The arterial road Queensway was officially named in 1954.
Previously, Queenstown was a large swampy valley with a channel running through in a southeastern direction. On either side of this agricultural area were hills - feng xing and feng ling. The former was a rubber plantation and the latter, a cemetery also known as boh beh kang. The village in the area, with mainly Hokkien and Teochew-speaking dwellers, was also the area was inhabited by hundreds of people in attap-roofed huts, cultivating vegetables, growing fruits and rearing pigs and chickens. Buller Camp, a British military camp, was also set up there until 1953 when it was cleared for the new housing estate.
In 1947, the Housing Committee of Singapore highlighted the problem of inadequate housing in Singapore. The report proposed the decentralisation of the population away from the city with the building of self-contained residential areas in the suburbs. This proposal was believed to be an influence of the New town movements in post-war Britain.
Queenstown was subsequently chosen by Singapore Improvement Trust (SIT) as a site for housing development due to its proximity to the successful first public housing scheme in Tiong Bahru. Construction of Queenstown's first estate, Princess Margaret Estate (named after HM Elizabeth II's younger sister), began in July 1952. By late 1953, a preliminary batch of 3-room flats was ready for occupation. By 1956, work on the Princess Margaret Estate (later shortened to Princess Estate) had more than 1,000 flats comprising one, two and three-room units and 68 terrace houses. A ceremony was held in October that year for Forfar House, a 14-storey block which was a prominent landmark in those days as it was the tallest HDB flat at that point of time.
The area continued to develop as a self-contained community. Some of the facilities and amenities developed included the Town Centre and the Swimming and Sports Complex. The former was fully completed in 1969 with three cinemas and a variety of outlets including an emporium, a fresh food market, a maternity and child health centre, a bowling alley and a nightclub cum restaurant. The swimming complex was completed in August 1970.
In the 1970s, the success of the new town led to the development of Buona Vista and Holland Village, using the older neighborhoods of Queenstown as a model. However, by the 1980s, the area had become a mature estate with a higher proportion of senior citizens residing in the area than elsewhere, and gradual migration of the younger generation into other HDB new towns.
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Hi fellow Discoverers. This is Alan from Discovery Walking Tours TV. Do subscribe and ring the bell if you are keen to see more of Singapore. I used binaural microphones to record the environmental sounds. So if you have a pair of headphones, do use them, it will be quite an immersive experience 😀
If you notice any interesting points in the video or want to ask about something that was caught on camera, comment with a time stamp (eg 00:01) and I will be sure to check it out. I am also interested to know where you are from 😄 so drop a comment below and say hi!
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A very peaceful neighborhood! I would love to live there
Yeah its a nice and quiet neighbourhood these days. With no malls near the Mrt, it is alot quieter.
Great picturisation
Thanks to discovery
Thanks for a cool walking
Cool area, thanks for the walk!
Thanks for dropping by 😄
I miss you Singapore ❤
I was there in 1996 to 1997..... such a great memories.... i wish i could comeback soon...
Love it. Bring a lot of memories of Uni life though
A quiet, orderly environment. Thanks for showing me around Alan.
Would love to do another Queenstown video but this time recording from the Queensway Shopping Centre side.
Wa! My favourite neighbourhood in Singapore!
Haha. Yeah you mentioned this to me before. Although for this walk I chose to walk from the Queenstown Mrt towards Mei Ling and Alexandra. Maybe next time once all the construction is done, I can cover the Dawson area
Wow
My old neighborhood i miss it so much
Ｉ studied in MDIS in Queentown in 2019 Miss it so much
Thanks Alan, didn't know Queenstown has such a big hawker centre 👍
Yeah it was my first time over there. Feels like a morning hawker. A couple of stores looked close. Feels a bit similar to Holland Drive hawker
i grew up there then moved to malaysia the year before last- wow the memories...
Came over to Singapore to work?
@@DiscoveryWalkingToursTV nah i went to malaysia because of family things, then coming back next month for school.
Good~ and interesting~
Thanks Luoes. Glad to see you here 😄
Discovery Walking Tours TV u .
Lol thanks for showing around i havent see those buildings inside.}•u•}♡
Glad I managed to show you a different side of Singapore 😊
Wow you really explore to landed area also lol. Very rare to see those chicken
I aim to cover every major estate in Singapore 😂 I try. So that 10 years from now. When we look back, we still remember what the area was like. I treat it like doing National Service again 🤣
@@DiscoveryWalkingToursTV ow ns need to do that?
I would be happy if you can take me a long the way. Just to learn from you about the video process.
Did you happen to pass by the MDIS campus building? Seems like you've covered almost every parts in Singapore everyone could wish to watch :))
Oh this walk is soo "long" ago 😂 hmm. I don't think I passed by mdis. But I was happy to went to one of the first hdb blocks in Singapore 😁
@@DiscoveryWalkingToursTV Oh, okay maybe some other time 😁. Ah, really? I had no idea it was one of the first HDB built.. Thanks for the new knowledge.
Did you use any stabiliser? Very stable footage!
I recorded it using a Osmo Pocket
THOSE HDB TERRACE HOUSES HAVE ONLY 46 YRS REMAINING LEASE, HARD TO SELL BECAUSE ONCE THE LEASE EXPIRE ,THE VALUES WILL GO TO NIL.MY FORMER 3 RM FLAT BLK6C MARGARET DRIVE IS NOW MARGARET VILLE FROM A SLUM TO.HIGH END CONDO.I DON'T MISS MARGARET DRIVE BECAUSE IT IS VERY HOT DURING AFTERNOON AND THE AIR IS MORE POLLUTED THAN MY PRESENT JURONG EAST CENTRAL.
Its true. The less the leasehold is the harder it is to find a buyer
Story of Jurong west, boon lay and Jurong east anyone knows from here(have virus and humans biting)? If assuming someone read then a "settled thing" about Alexandra hospital too, if imagine "boat quay" how many people anyway? If imagine Changi airport have high level mastermind have a business(shop), if the seriousness is like that, it feels like north and east and south like an all-police(boat quay aside) split fairly(if Jurong west, boon lay, Jurong east in a safe strong vehicle) to know people? But if police number is a redirection before into a situation of bad experience, like hospitals under-attack? It's like Singapore if a place for interpol-selection how serious they become? Is it japanese are police? Police rly Abt theft and ownership only? If have 2 information spot, if make another like "for c.i.a and interpol's knowledge point"? What happen to army, will anyone create a platoon of ownself(that don't march etc.)? Even Russia have to use a look of ak? It's really life to not think of police as strong?
Please make a vedio of nie
A bit challenging to film in schools these days. Outsiders are barred from entering due to the covid situation. If things do improve I will consider visited nie
Where are the homeless