... 街書詩 後厝打馬虱吧老 內廊酒仔石貢 仔間八 內廊酒仔石貢 邊廊酒 巷角牛
has been in this street for the past 212 years.)
(ii) Phonetic (Si-shü for Cecil.)
(iii) 'Behind the Police Station near the old market.'
'Stone-breaking spirit-depôt within' i.e. 'within spirit-depôt (quarter) in the Havelock Road neighbourhood.'
(All lower Havelock Road and district is called "Stone-breaking (place)." There is a disused spirit factory in Cheang Chong Lim Lane which leads off Havelock Road. Cf: Beng Hoon Road.)
'Eight small buildings.'
(This is a very short street, so the name is not altogether inappropriate.)
(See under Chenng Hong Lim Lane.)
'Beside the spirit-depôt' (cf. Beng Hoon Road.)
'Ox-horn lane': so called because the street runs in a semicircle, more or less, from Tanjong Pagar Road back