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Old 4th Dec 2015, 21:11
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Warmtoast
 
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Thanks for the updates on how my nearly sixty-years old views of Singapore look now - very fascinating - many thanks.

Re. your photo of the Changi sailing club, in my days at Changi the RAF Changi sailing club had "Cadets" as the dinghies for novices ISTR, plus I was very envious of the couple of Star class racing yachts (as used in the Olympics) the club owned, but sadly never had the chance sail in them, but I did do sailing at RAF Negombo in the clubs "Fleetwinds" which were fast and light - here I am sailing one on the Negombo lagoon in 1957.



For us Brits who were in Singapore in the late 50's and early 60's the Chinese ladies were daring with their outfits as compared with the girls I was going out with at home.



A Singapore street view of a Cheongsam-wearing Chinese lady captured by my 8mm cine camera c.1960 - at the time the wearer would probably be arrested if she wore it in the street in London!
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