It had run a pig farm for decades when in 1985 the Singaporean government closed it down, along with a number of other businesses deemed environmentally unsound.
Just down the block is Ford's Filling Station (www.fordsfillingstation.net), a gastropub run by the crafty chef Ben Ford, who prefers whole pig feasts and oven-roasted octopus to fedoras and bullwhips (yep, his dad is Harrison).