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I used to go to Clark Quay often, first because I owned an old apartment there:

shown above from three different angles, and below the surroundings

a satellite photo of the area:

across Clemenseau Avenue there is Fort Canning Hill, from which I took these zoom shots:

a scene from a cafe I went to often:

I also used to go to the sunday flea market there. The apartment has now been sold and the flea market gone.

I have not forgiven whoever that was responsible for bringing Crazy Horse to Clark Quay, taking over the old warehouse that used to have the sunday flea market. The stallholders dispersed, a small number ending up in China Square Central,

but things could never be the same. It serves those fellows right that Crazy Horse folded in less than a year - the desperation to show how "open" Singapore had become was quite pathetic, and proven unrealistic. The following three shots are the warehouse now, occupied by various pubs and restaurants unfamiliar to me:

Clark Quay is these days very quiet during the day on Sunday; I do not know what things are like in the evenings since I have never been there except during the day. I think during weekdays there is some lunch time crowd spilling over from Boat Quay but I have not been around there enough to be sure.

In addition to current and old pictures of Clark Quay itself, I also found several old photos of Van Kleef Aquarium that used to be across River Valley Road, under Fort Canning Hill (which I used to call Fort Caning to amuse my kids - that's where they took Michael Fey...)

Below is the current empty lawn - not exactly a park as it has not been laid out with paths and other things to make strolling easy - the old concrete path was left over from the aquarium days

Finally a shot of the new canopy over the clark quay walking mall