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Streets of Raffles Place

15 December 2021

Find out the history behind the streets of Raffles Place

Black-and-white scene of cars and pedestrians on a busy street, with text "RAFFLES PLACE & ITS STREETS" and "START YOUR JOURNEY."

The names of places tell us a lot about a country. These include its history, landscape, people, aspirations and self-image. By studying these names, we can unlock the myriad interlocking stories that are encoded in every street and landmark.

Take a look at some of them in this story map on the streets of Raffles Place.

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 does not show a comprehensive coverage of the streets in Raffles Place.

  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), and Singapore: A Pictorial History 1819-2000 (opens in new tab) (1999).

Image Credit

Photo from Ministry of Information and the Arts Collection, courtesy of National Archives of Singapore (opens in new tab)