A voice from the former View Road Hospital’s past: an ex-resident Roszelan Mohd Yusof from the days when it was the Naval Base Police Asian Quarters, revisits the units in which he lived from the 1960s up to 1972 (see video below).
Best known as a former mental hospital (used as a rehabilitation centre from 1975 to 2001 for long-term schizophrenia patients as well as to allow them to work, reintegrate and return to society), the building had prior to that been used as a quarters for Asian Naval Base Policemen and their families.
A large proportion of the residents of the quarters were Sikhs and Malays. There was also a Pakistani family, and a Bangladeshi family living there, as well as one Nepali family. The lower floor of the north wing, which housed the Chart Depot, was out of bounds to the residents, as well as the observation tower and the bomb-proof office.
The last Naval Base Police Force residents were allowed to vacate their flats in 1972, following the disbandment of the Naval Base Police Force a month after the British Pull-out. More of what is known on the building’s history is also seen in the video.
More on the former View Road Hospital and the visit that was organised to it:
The Long and Winding Road 
Hi Roszelan
I viewed your posting and it brings me down memory lane. I stayed there from 1959 to 1970 after moving from Khalsa Crescent (opposite the then KD Malaya). I started school in 1959 at Marsiling Primary School and later asked for a transfer to Canberra School. I have many fond memories of Rimau. We had a garden where we grew our own vegetables. The ground in front was for football hockey and roundess.