Woo Mon Chew
Woo Mon Chew was a Cantonese businessman, who was also a major contractor in Colonial Singapore. His firm was behind major colonial monuments like the former Terminal Building of the Singapore Civil Aerodrome and the former Hill Street Police Station. He also operated the granite quarry at Pulau Ubin for many years. His series of advertisements showing the construction process of the former Hill Street Police Station in the Journal of the Institute of Architects of Malaya in the 1930s is, to say the least, eye-catching.
Today Woo is remembered through a road named after him in the East Coast area, where his family used to live in the several shophouses he owned.
To be updated. Written by Chang Jiat Hwee, 12 May 2021.
