Neil Road

conservation area of several shophouses and a three-story Victorian style school building, which was the former site of Fairfield Methodist Girls' School. In the Tanjong Pagar

area of the road, it is home to rows of conserved shophouses for various purposes.

Etymology

The road was formerly known as Silat, Selat or Salat Road, the Malay term for "straits" before renamed in 1858 to Neil Road.[1] The Municipal Council renamed the road in honour of Colonel Neil of the Madras Fusiliers in India, who was involved in the Indian Rebellion of 1857.^[1]

In Hokkien, the road was known as goo chia chwee sia lo, which means "steep street of Kreta Ayer".^[1]

Notable buildings

House number 147 belonged to

$25,000.^[1] Lee Kuan Yew lived in the house for a few years with his parents and grandfather.^[1]

In 1912, Fairfield Girls’ School moved into a Victorian-style three-storey building on Neil Road in 1912.^[2] In 1983, the school moved out of the Neil Road.^[2]

References

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