Sent by a fellow old boy, this video is one that brings back the most wonderful of days – my schooldays at St. Joseph’s Institution when that was in Bras Basah Road. Produced for the school’s 15oth anniversary in 2002, it is filled with familiar scenes from the old school: the assemblies we had in the courtyard facing the Brothers’Quarters, Anderson Bridge connecting the Anderson Building to the main wing, the fountain in the front yard, the old grandfather’s clock that made the trip east with the first brothers, the Hippo Scout den and the Co-op Society room at the far end of the courtyard, a classroom, the school field across the road …
Now repurposed occupied as the Singapore Art Museum, what remains is the main wing, Anderson Building along Waterloo Street, and the block that housed the chapel on the upper floor and the school hall (now the Glass Hall) on the ground floor.
More on my schooldays in Bras Basah Road and other recollections of the area can be found at:
- Schoodays in Singapore (Asia!)
- Bencoolen Street has become more walkable (Going Places)
- Whispers of an otherwise silent world
you seem to have missedout the most popular place opposite sji – the famous waterloo street indian rojak stalls
Not forgotten! They are mentioned in School Days in Singapore, as the “Sarabat Stalls”. You can also see it On a Little Street in Singapore if you are a member of the group.