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Heritage Bridges of Singapore River

15 December 2021

Uncover the stories of the heritage bridges of Singapore River

Aerial view of a river surrounded by buildings, captioned "Heritage Bridges of Singapore River" with a "Start Your Journey" button.

The heritage bridges that were built over the Singapore River during the colonial period are more than mere structures providing safe passageway across this historic body of water. Hailed as marvels of engineering given the technology and building materials available at the time, these bridges were built to defy the elements and resist the laws of gravity.

Embark on this story map to learn the history these bridges.

View the story map in full screen (opens in new tab) or on your mobile device by scanning the QR code below.

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Notes

  1. This story map is not a comprehensive coverage of the bridges found along Singapore River.

  2. The base map used in this story map is the Singapore Land Authority's OneMap (opens in new tab).

  3. This story map used related Infopedia articles and other NLB digitised resources in NL Online (opens in new tab),BiblioAsia (opens in new tab), and Roots (opens in new tab) as references. It also consulted the following books: Singapore Street Names: A Study of Toponymics (opens in new tab) (2013), What’s in the Name?: How the Streets and Villages in Singapore Got Their Names (opens in new tab) (2018), Ray Tyers’ Singapore: Then & Now (opens in new tab) (2018), Singapore: A Guide to Buildings, Streets, Places (opens in new tab) (1988), In Granite and Chunam: The National Monuments of Singapore (opens in new tab) (1996), Singapore: A Pictorial History 1819-2000 (opens in new tab) (1999) and Tidal Fortunes: A Story of Change: The Singapore River and Kallang Basin (opens in new tab) (1990).

Image Credit

Photo by William Cho via Wikicommons (opens in new tab) (CC BY 2.0)