Take a peek into the wartime shophouse where Lee Kuan Yew hid.
The original three-storey structure is one of seven built in 1925.
In the midst of World War II, it was where Singapore’s founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew hid to escape a mass screening at the nearby Jalan Besar Stadium. In his memoir, Lee said that had he not found refuge in what was a lodging house for rickshaw pullers during the Japanese Occupation in February 1942, he would most certainly have been taken to a beach near Changi Prison and shot to death.
Today, this shophouse – which was previously occupied by an electrical business, cleaning company and possibly even a nightclub before being left vacant and derelict for years – has been lovingly rehabilitated.
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