Fire staircase on side of blocks of flats

[Cecil Lee]

1. This is a rare sight nowadays; as many of the fire escape staircases are tucked away without good views.
2. Nowadays, such "valuable" estate is taken over by corner units of apartments.
2. The picture shows a block 491, Admiralty Link.
3. This type of staircase (reminds me) was formerly found on one of the earliest Singapore slab flats and also on the old Singapore Orchid $1 notes.
4. The only difference is that the cluster of flats around Admiarlity Link such as Block 491; are much, much taller than the "concrete slab look" this is why it is commonly called a "slab"- rectanguarlish flats: popularof the governments public housing in the 1960's: consisting usually of one and three room flats. All uniform in height.
4.1 In the currency note; you can see that this estate has a cluster of similar type of blocks. One estate today is that of the Eunos estate in Singapore. While it is a pity many of such flats in Tiong Bahru were demolished; residents relocated to resettled newer and higher levels! There are some of these left in Old Airport Road / Dakota Road, Singapore.
4.2 The three rooms flat usually denote: two bedrooms and a living room. Thus simply called: THREE rooms.
4.3 Frankly, I find this naming convention odd; but it still sticks to this type of description, today.