Tiger Balm Gardens,Singapore

1960's

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Tiger Balm Gardens in 1965.


Tiger Balm Gardens in 1964.





Tiger Balm Garden was a delight, full of grotesque alabaster statues in all stages of contortion and depicting the most horrific physical mahem that the locals must have indulged in in some period of their history. There is another Tiger Balm Garden in Hong Kong which also has happy memories for me but I won't get into that! Somewhere I have loads of colour photos of the exhibits adorned by drunken sailors in various states of undress.... I wonder where they are.

(Words and photo from Clive Baker)


April 1967

David, Jennifer, Anne, Margaret and Jane Cooke outside the Tiger Balm Gardens.





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