Hi Gordonator
Nice to know there is someone there in Nee Soon. During my time,
Transit Road had those "mama" shops selling cheap goods. A year or
so after my ROD, they built better shophouses for those guys. I
think they are still there, as during my reservist in the 1990s, I
went to a camp nearby to draw ammo and passed by Nee Soon.
I was in SBMT 2nd Wing and my office was in Echo Coy near the
Muslim cookhouse. I wonder if it is still there? Facing the
Officers' Mess. One day, when I was in the platoon office, gazing
out of the balcony, I saw a old British couple (man and wife...
around 60 years old). They were walking along looking at the
buildings. I guessed he was an ex-British army serviceman. I went
down to say "hello" , since they were already loitering outside the
company line. He told me he served there in the 1950s and actually
Echo Coy barracks was the cookhouse staff barracks, which explained
why we had some stuff we found in the building. He was quite amazed
that in the 1980s , very little had changed. Some new training
sheds were built but not much changes.
