Hill Street

Before I venture into Chinatown, I decided to make a U-turn toward Hill Street because there are some interesting building worth mention. First, stop the Old Hill Street Police Station with its colourful windows says to be about 970 of them now a government ministry building, then next come to the Old Hill Street Fire Station, Armenian Church of St. Gregory, former US Embassy, Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Masjid Al-Burhani Shia, and Singapore Telephone House sadly is under demolition to make way for a new hotel. Although its a short street but lots of heritage buildings.

Big Horse Road - Boat Quay

Elgin Bridge runs over the Singapore River connect  North Bridge Road with South Bridge Road. one side we have High Street Centre and the other The Riverwalk Residence where Boat Quay had rows of Godown where the traditional wooden barges know as Twa Kor plies between the big steamers that bring cargoes into our port and goes upstream into godowns along Clarke Quay and Robertson Quay.

Legal House

As I proceed from North Bridge Road going into South Bridge Road known as Toa Po Big Horse Road, there stood our New Supreme Court back to back with the colonial one. This site belongs to the Old Colombo Court and besides is our very own new and Old Parliament House.

 

Some Buildings to be remember

Next to Capitol Piazza stood Peninsula Plaza is an old school high rise building know for its shop services and restaurant catering to Burmese people who are here to earn a living 

Next, we have the newly developed Funan Sg from the old Funan, the name been translated from Hock Lam Street and opposite we have the Adelphi from the old Adelphi Hotel.

Heritage Building

Capitol Theatre is at the crossroad between North Bridge Road and Stamford with its 4 storey building known as Capitol building since 1930 now it is known as The Capitol Kempinski Hotel.

Next door to the Capitol Theatre is Capitol Piazza built from the former Capitol Shopping Centre, the 2 storey building had an open Plaza and an arcade with F&B outlets.

The Raffles Brand

As I walk  further towards Bras Basah Road I came across Purvis Street and Seah Street which was known as Hylam Ji Kuay and Hylam Sar Kuay with the famous family feud Chicken Rice Stall, here I found the Raffles Shopping Arcade back to back to the famous Raffles Hotel famous for the Singapore Sling and further cross the road our Raffles City built on our former site of our famous Raffles Institution 

Happy 55th Birthday Singapore

We have come from this far since our independence day in 1965 when our nation was ejected from the Merger with Malaysia and at the stroke, at midnight we are celebrating our 55th Birthday without our founding father of this nation who has left us for a better place but we are still in safe hands with our 3rd and 4th generation leaders who will lead us into the near future for our future generation to come. THANK YOU,  MAJULAH SINGAPURA