Tanglin Halt Picketball Club
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【Tanglin Halt Pickleball Club】
Welcome to Tanglin Halt Pickleball Club (THPC) , a private pickleball community that founded by Roy Lin - A Night Grabber & Coach/Social Media Mini-Influencer/Multiple Community Leader/Entreprenuer.🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪
I am a 100% Singaporean 🇸🇬 and love to host any good soul to our little red dot. 🪂🪂🪂Let us re-create the kampong spirit through picketball !! 🎃🎃
Our international club, THPC focuses on respectful, and enjoyable games. No matter if you are a complete beginner or an experienced player, you are welcome to join us. 🚀🚀🚀
So far, international friends from India 🇮🇳, USA🇺🇸, Vietnam 🇻🇳, Malaysia🇲🇾, Korea 🇰🇷, Philippines 🇵🇭 , France 🇫🇷and China 🇨🇳 have joined in our fun. You can be passing by as tourists or working or studying in Singapore.
🇸🇬🇸🇬Fellow Singaporeans WELCOME too hor !
Most of our THPC sessions are held at Farrer Park ActiveSG Indoor Pickleball Courts, where I organise weekday games, typically between 3:00 pm and 6:00 pm, and whenever I am successful in securing a court booking (SO Difficult to Book !) . 🥑🥑🥑🥑🥑
This venue is selected because of its central location + next to MRT station (Little India Exit B) + Indoor Court, where the weather cannot spoil the fun. 🗼🗼🗼🗼🗼
Why all THPC games are free-of-charge (FOC) at ActiveSG Picketball court?? 🚛🚛🚛🚛
This is because the rate is too cheap to charge anyone . THPC has no membership fees or game fees whatsoever. Having great companionship and new friendship are more than worthy of the price of latte !!⛱️⛱️⛱️⛱️
All our THPC games are sponsored by myself (Roy Lin), a Night Grab driver, OR by any THPC individual sponsor. So welcome to help book Farrer Park ActiveSG Pickleball Courts for the 4-6pm (Monday, Wednesday & Thursday) slot via ActiveSG sports website at every noon! Each slot must be booked 12 days ahead. ⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️⛵️
In return, all THPC Participants are welcome to bring some amount of nice snack or food to share ( pot luck ) at courtside, in exchange for this goodwill playtime.🧯🧯🧯🧯
If you enjoy the company of happy positive people with sunny character, we look forward to seeing you to THPC soon. 🥑🥑🥑
Play with Passion ! Live with Happiness! 🍭🍭🍭
WR,
Roy Lin
Founder, THPC🔋🔋🔋🔋
【THPC House Rules】
*N.B. 1 - All THPC members or applicants-to-join MUST use real photo in their profile. Let’s be real!🥊🥊🥊
*N.B. 2 - Your participation in any game, shall be confirmed 48 hours before the game time.🐲🐲🐲
*N.B. 3 - New THPC member shall have play-priority than regular members. 🍄🍄🍄
*N.B. 4 - Any player that lack social or game or time etiquette will be blacklisted, without given notice.🛼🛼🛼🛼
*N.B. 5 - Each THPC session is 2 hour & limited to between 4 -6 players (mixed gender preferred) per court. Each game selection of player will be at the total discretion of THPC Founder. 🦞🦞🦞
*N.B. 6 - Score system is every ball count as a point. One server only and then service over. 11 points is maximium for each set. After each set, we will alternate and rotating the players. I prefer a quick pace game.
【History of Tanglin Halt District】
Tanglin Halt area in Singapore 🇸🇬 is where my pickleball lifestyle begins and hence I named this club as such.
How did the district name originated?
Tanglin Halt has a surprisingly rich history. It is almost a miniature version of Singapore’s transformation, from railway and kampong land, to early public housing and factories, and now to a new generation of high-density housing. 🦺🦺🦺
🚂 1. Why is it called “Tanglin Halt”?
The name is tied to the Malayan Railway.🐿️🐿️🐿️🐿️
When the railway route to Tanjong Pagar opened in 1932, there was a small railway stop in the Tanglin/Queenstown area. The railway corridor subsequently became an important physical feature beside the neighbourhood. The word “Halt” literally referred to a railway stopping point, hence the name Tanglin Halt. 🌳🌳🌳🌳
For generations of residents, trains were part of everyday life. The KTM tracks ran immediately alongside the estate, and residents remembered the train horns as part of Tanglin Halt’s soundscape. The railway finally ceased operation through this corridor in 2011, after which the tracks were removed and the land became today’s Rail Corridor. 🥫🥫🥫🥫🥫
🏘️ 2. Tanglin Halt became part of Singapore’s first satellite town
This is where its history becomes nationally significant.🥗🥗🥗🥗
Queenstown was Singapore’s first satellite town, conceived by the colonial-era Singapore Improvement Trust (SIT). It was named in 1953 in connection with Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation. The idea was quite advanced for the time: instead of simply building housing, planners wanted a self-contained town with homes + factories + shops + markets + schools + clinics. 🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕
Tanglin Halt was designated Neighbourhood Four of the Queenstown plan. HDB took over from SIT in 1960 and greatly accelerated construction. 🍖🍖🍖🍖🍖
Some of the early Tanglin Halt/Commonwealth blocks date from 1962.🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭
And here’s a lovely piece of Singapore trivia: the famous ten-storey blocks around Commonwealth Drive became known in Hokkien as “chup lau chu” 十楼厝, essentially “ten-storey houses.” Blocks 74–80 were even depicted on Singapore’s 1967 Orchid Series $1 note. 🥘🥘🥘🥘🥘🥘
So those humble-looking blocks were once symbols of a futuristic Singapore.🧃🧃🧃🧃🧃🧃
📺 3. Tanglin Halt wasn’t just housing. It helped industrialise Singapore.
This part is especially interesting.🍹🍹🍹🍹
The government developed the Tanglin Halt Industrial Estate during the 1960s. It occupied about 20 acres and contained 38 factory lots, deliberately located close to the railway and a large pool of workers.
Factories there included Setron (Singapore Electronics), Van Houten chocolate, Diethelm aluminium and Unitex garments.
And Tanglin Halt has a genuine “Made in Singapore” claim to fame:
Singapore’s first locally produced black-and-white television was manufactured by Setron at Tanglin Halt in 1964. 📺🇸🇬
Imagine the neighbourhood in the 1960s: thousands of families living in brand-new HDB flats, factories operating nearby, workers walking to work, trains rumbling alongside the estate and hawkers and neighbourhood shops appearing to serve everyone.⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️
That combination of housing + employment + transport + community facilities was exactly what Singapore’s early planners were trying to achieve.🏓🏓🏓🏓🏓
🏪 4. A community develops
The Tanglin Halt Neighbourhood Centre opened in 1964, becoming the commercial and social heart of the estate. ⛳️⛳️⛳️⛳️🥍
Over the following decades, Tanglin Halt matured into the familiar old-school Singapore neighbourhood many people remember: provision shops, coffeeshops, hawkers, wet-market activity and residents who had known one another for decades.🛝🛝🛝🛝🛝
Meanwhile, Singapore’s economy changed. By the late 1980s, many Tanglin Halt factories began relocating to larger industrial estates. The old labour-intensive factories were eventually replaced by modern commercial and industrial buildings such as One Commonwealth and the Haw Par Corporation Technocentre. ⛸️⛸️⛸️⛸️⛸️⛸️
🏗️ 5. The great redevelopment
Then came another enormous transformation.🎣🎣🎣🎣🎣🎣🎣
In 2014, Tanglin Halt was selected for HDB’s Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme (SERS). The programme affected 3,480 flats across 31 blocks, making it the largest SERS exercise announced at the time. 🚣🏼♀️🚣🏼♀️🚣🏼♀️🚣🏼♀️🚣🏼♀️
That effectively brought the original 1960s Tanglin Halt chapter to an end.
But Tanglin Halt isn’t disappearing. It is being reborn.🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼
HDB’s rejuvenation plans envisage more than 6,000 new homes by around 2030, together with new amenities and connections to the Rail Corridor. Importantly, planners have deliberately incorporated references to Tanglin Halt’s heritage, including the memory of the famous chup lau chu blocks.
