Along the old waterfront, peddlers were bundling wares into their blankets.

These days the old waterfront has been revamped and redeveloped, like so many other dockland areas.

Some shouted they would be safe in the hills, others ran down by the old waterfront, still others tried to reach the city gates.

Now, while its older waterfront is reviving, large residential developments are spreading inland.

But today there are still echoes of the old waterfront in Red Hook.

In the 1960's, there were urban renewal proposals, including one to tear down most of the old waterfront and build a highway.

A few hundred feet south, the old waterfront survives on a pier where cars are shredded into scrap.

The two bridges to the mainland shadow 19th-century ocher-colored market buildings along the old waterfront.

Fortunately, I made a wrong turn at the end of the bridge and found myself on the old waterfront.

The old waterfront is the place to see just how Singapore is changing before your eyes.