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The whole establishment of the post office in the 1830s consisted of one European clerk, one local writer and a peon. To cope with the increasing volume of mail, the Post Office, then known as the Singapore Post Office, later General Post Office, was moved in 1854 to its own building near the Town Hall by the side of the Singapore River.
It was later renamed the Paya Lebar Fire Station. [2] In 1951, a prayer room was installed in the station, allowing on-duty Muslim firefighters to be able to perform prayers while at the station. [1] It ceased operations in 2002. [3] The fire station was replaced by the Paya Lebar Fire Station on Ubi Avenue. [1]
The Singapore International Airport was built in Paya Lebar from 1952 to 1955, and opened on 20 August that year by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Alan Lennox-Boyd. [5] Singapore International Airport began to be gradually converted into a military air-force base from late 1967 onwards.
Tai Seng MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the Circle line, situated along the boundary of Hougang and Toa Payoh planning areas, Singapore. Located underneath Upper Paya Lebar Road near the junction of MacPherson Road and Airport Road, Tai Seng station was named after and primarily serves the industrial clusters ...
The Malay word for swamp is paya. It is the Chinese equivalent of Paya Lebar, which translates to "big swamp land". Toa Payoh's old Chinese name, was known as Ang Chiang San (alternatively An Xiang Shan) or "burial hill". The area was called as such because of the presence of an old cemetery located in the area.
Paya Lebar MRT station (IPA: /ˈpɑːjɑː ˌleɪbɑːr, ˈpɑːjə-/ PAH-yə LAY-bar) is a Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) interchange station on the East West line (EWL) and Circle line (CCL) in Geylang, Singapore. Despite the name, this station is not located in Paya Lebar but rather along Paya Lebar Road, near the junction with Sims Avenue. It is ...
Aljunied MRT station [a] is an above-ground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the East West line (EWL) in Geylang, Singapore.Named after Aljunied Road, this station primarily serves Aljunied, one of the subzones that make up Geylang planning area.
To facilitate the construction for the CCL station, part of Paya Lebar Road, Circuit Link and Ubi Avenue 2 had to be realigned. [5] In September 2007, Chye Joo Construction won the tender to finish building the MacPherson and Tai Seng MRT stations at a contract sum of S$17.5 million. [6]