SINGAPORE - Old shophouses and a crowd watching a Chinese opera are among the scenes of a bygone era captured by French photography enthusiast Paul Piollet, 84.
He had previously given a smaller number of images to the National Library and National Archives of Singapore. Others range from a 1971 snapshot of a crowd watching a Chinese opera performance in Chin Nam Street, where the new Funan mall now stands; to a 1988 shot of boats on Pandan River which bore and off-loaded timber products such as bakau wood from Indonesia.
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