Old Singapore Captured on Film
Posted: March 25th, 2011 | 2 Comments »I’m down in Singapore for a few days in April working and doing a little research for a book – came across this video on CNNGo Singapore, an old film of the then British Colony. It’s fun but doesn’t answer my research question – around the period between 1900 and 1920 where were the brothels in Singapore, both the Chinese ones and the bordellos staffed with foreign girls?? If anyone knows please do pass along some addresses?
keong saik road immediately came to mind, but turns out it was prominent only in the 1960s.
as for the period you are researching on, perhaps try hylam, malabar, malay and bugis streets, which were infamous for their brothels with karayuki-san (japanese prostitutes). not too sure about where the brothels with chinese/ other foreign girls were located though.
links below may be useful, if you haven’t already come across them, have a good trip in singapore.
1) http://infopedia.nl.sg/articles/SIP_980_2006-06-01.html
2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Road,_Singapore#Karayuki-san
3) http://books.google.com/books?id=Eo_Hav3qHYEC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
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