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Updated 14.10.15 C L D E BUS A Embark On A M 06039 Robertson O Journey That Built E Quay N R A Nation PEARL’S HILL BUS C 06161 BUS K The Singapore River Walk traces the CITY PARK E 06169 C A R development of the Singapore River U O E and its surroundings through the V L Alkaff I A quays, bridges and other conserved E Bridge R V V landmarks that remind us of the E E A communities who once lived and N R H worked by the river. U O E P Since 1819, when modern Singapore A G was founded, the Singapore River has N I served as an artery of international S commerce that drew people from all over the region to work, trade and seek their fortunes on this island. Today, MAGAZINE CLEMENCEAU AVENUE after a major clean-up that ended in 1983, the river continues to bustle with life. T his clean and pleasant waterway ROAD now flows past modern skyscrapers and historic buildings before ending at BUS 06171 Marina Bay, a freshwater reservoir Tan Si TEERTS SSORC REPPU SSORC TEERTS Clemenceau since 2008. Chong Su Bridge Temple BUS 05013 E U T O N Legend BUS 06189 Masjid G S E N S T R E E T Omar Collyer Quay Whampoa ROAD Ice House Kampong Ord CHINA Melaka TOWN Bridge CK ROAD MINISTRY RCHANT Custom House BUS OF MANPOWER 05022 ME RIVERSIDE POINT The Cannery BUS That Built A Nation A Built That Walk 05049 Embark On A Journey A On Embark River LIANG BUS COURT Clifford Pier SS STREET House 05023 HAVELO Read Singapore River River Singapore Bridge River House CHINA Former R CRO TOWN Thong Chai The The BUS Medical Change Alley UPPE 05131 Institution Read Bridge MERCHANT COURT The SWISSOTEL Cannery Cavenagh BUS Bridge STREET Former Thong 05059 R Chai Medical E Institution V Whampoa I Ice House R RING STREET CLARKE NEW CLARKE QUAY QUAY Raffles Place CENTRAL E R UPPER HOKKIEN BRIDGE ROAD EY ROAD Masjid Omar R PICKE ClarkeO L ROAD Boat Quay Kampong Melaka Quay P BUS A SOUTHUPPE PARK G BUS HONG LIM 04222 G BUS CLARKE 04219 Elgin Bridge QUAY N Tan Si Chong 00000 I BRIDG E R O A D BUS ER V A L L Su Temple The Singapore River Walk takes you on a journey from S RK G STREET 04211 Collyer Quay to Robertson Quay, focusing on the FORT NORTH CANA Coleman contributions of the river towards Singapore’s mercantile RIV Bridge BUS PA development through the various communities who lived 04239 CANNIN Ord Bridge R STREET and worked by the river, as well as the spectacular GEORGE ST. HONG KON RING STREET architecture and social history of the bridges that Market Street criss-cross the river, facilitating the movement of people Clemenceau ICKE Coleman Bridge and goods across the river at various junctures. The P CARPENTE Bridge Singapore River Walk is adopted by American Express. SYNAGOGUE ST. BUS Masjid Moulana 05029 BUS Mohamed Ali Robertson Quay For more information visit UPPER CIRCULAR ROAD HILL04223 STREET www.nhb.gov.sg IN CELEBRATION OF BUS BUS RCH STREET Elgin 04251 Clarke Quay Alkaff Bridge Bridge 04229 CHU Boat PHILL Quay IP ST. Masjid MRT Bus River Market Moulana NORTH BUS Stop Taxi Mohamed ER ET Street STRE CHULIA V Ali RI Roads Prominent Sites RE BRIDG MARKET ST. O Parks Heritage Sites P HOUSE River Marked Sites A PARLIAMENT BUS E ROAD G 04249 Walkways RAFFLES PLACE N THE ARTS HOUSE I BUS 02181 S NATIONAL GALLERY, SINGAPORE ASIAN BATTER CIVILISATIONS MUSEUM VICTORIA THEATRE NATIONAL GALLERY, Y ROAD VICTORIA Raffles HALL SINGAPORE Place Cavenagh CONCERT Bridge BUS Change 02011 Alley PADANG CO LL YER QUAY FULLERTONTHE BUS HOTEL 03011 ESPLANADEBUS PARK Customs 02029 House Collyer Quay ESPLAN ADE Clifford DRIVE BUS Pier 02111 COPYRIGHTGHTSS © 2015 LEAP DS&C PTE LTD Collyer Cavenagh Raffles Change Alley, Market Street & Quay Bridge Place Masjid Moulana Mohamed Ali Accessible Accessible from Fullerton 1 Fullerton Square from Raffles Place Road MRT Station Clifford Pier Change Alley 80 Collyer Quay Accessible from Raffles Place Customs MRT Station House 70 Collyer Quay Market Street Accessible from Church Street Masjid Moulana Mohamed Ali UOB Plaza I #B1-01 80 Raffles Place Collyer Quay once greeted travellers who approached The oldest bridge across the Singapore River to have survived Established as Singapore’s main mercantile district in the 1820s, Singapore on ships before setting foot at Clifford Pier, which in its original form, Cavenagh Bridge was completed in 1869. Commercial Square was renamed Raffles Place in 1858. It was opened in 1933. Clifford Pier also served as a departure point Named after Governor Sir William Orfeur Cavenagh and located popular with shoppers who frequented places like Robinson’s for boats to the Southern Islands until 2006. The Customs between Empress Place and the Fullerton Building, it linked the and Change Alley, the latter offering bargains from the 1940s to House building, completed in 1969, housed officers who kept a colonial offices to the financial district. Previously, people could 1989. At nearby Market Street, Chettiar bankers provided look-out for maritime smugglers. Red beacons indicated the only cross the river mouth via temporary footbridge or boat. working capital for businesses, and Muslims gathered for prayers piers’ location at night, so the area was also popularly known to at Masjid Moulana Mohamed Ali, founded in the 1950s. The latter locals as such in their various local languages. became Singapore’s only underground mosque upon moving to UOB Plaza’s basement in 1994. Boat Elgin Coleman Clarke Quay Bridge Bridge Quay Accessible Accessible Accessible from South Bridge from South Bridge from Eu Tong Sen 3 River Valley Road Road Road Street River House 3A River Valley Road The Cannery Accessible from River Valley Road Whampoa’s Ice House 3E River Valley Road The first stretch of the Singapore River to be developed, Boat Elgin Bridge stands on the site of the first bridge that was built Coleman Bridge, named after its designer, George Dromgold Clarke Quay was developed in the late 19th century as trade Quay originated with Singapore’s first land reclamation project across the Singapore River in 1819. Other former bridges on this Coleman, was the second bridge across the Singapore River. grew rapidly along the Singapore River. Known for its distinctive to build an embankment. This part of the river, popularly known location include the 1823 Jackson Bridge and Thomson Bridge Coleman’s designs include the Armenian Church (1835), the warehouses and traditional buildings, Clarke Quay was named as the “Belly of the carp”, brimmed with traditional cargo boats from 1844. The bridge was continually upgraded to cope with first Government House on Fort Canning Hill (1822), and the after Governor Sir Andrew Clarke. Some of the important until the Singapore River clean-up was completed in the 1980s. rising traffic levels. The original Elgin Bridge, completed in 1862, former Parliament House (1827). The original Coleman Bridge landmarks in the area landmarks include the River House from was named after Lord Elgin, Viceroy of India. The present was first built in 1840, replaced in 1865 and again in 1886. The the 1880s, The Cannery (1891), and a replica of Whampoa’s structure was built in 1929. present bridge is a reconstruction from 1991. Ice House (1854). Read Former Masjid Omar Tan Si Bridge Thong Chai Kampong Melaka Chong Su Medical Temple and Institution Clemenceau 1B Clarke Quay 10 Keng Chow Street Bridge 50 Eu Tong Sen Street Tan Si Chong Su Temple 15 Magazine Road Clemenceau Bridge Accessible from Merchant Road Named after William Henry Macleod Read, a prominent A rare local example of secular Chinese architecture, this First built in 1820, Masjid Omar Kampong Melaka is Singapore’s Tan Si Chong Su Temple is a National Monument built in 1883 socio-political figure and merchant, Read Bridge was originally building originally housed a clinic established in 1867 by seven oldest mosque and place of worship. It was named after its by prominent Hokkien merchants belonging to the Tan clan. It is built in 1889 to replace an earlier structure, Merchant Bridge, or Chinese merchants to provide free medical care to the needy. builder, Syed Sharif Omar bin Ali Aljunied, a Yemeni-Arab also known as Po Chiak Keng (Hokkien for “protection of the Tock Seng’s Bridge. The latter, named after pioneering merchant The institution provided free medical advice to all regardless of merchant. Masjid Omar was a gathering point for the Malay innocent”). Clemenceau Bridge was first built in 1940 and and philanthropist Tan Tock Seng, required replacement as it was race, religion and social status. It was declared a National community, as well as Muslims originating from India, the Middle named after French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau, who too low for tongkangs (traditional river boats) to pass underneath. Monument in 1973. East and Southeast Asia. It was rebuilt in 1855 and remained visited Singapore in 1920. It replaced Pulau Saigon Bridge, and Read Bridge was converted into a pedestrian bridge in 1991. until the 1980s, when the present building was built. was rebuilt into a vehicular bridge in the 1990s. Ord Robertson Alkaff Bridge Quay Bridge Accessible Accessible 1 Havelock Road from Clarke Quay from Martin Road and Mohamed Sultan Road Completed in 1886, Ord Bridge was named after Sir Harry St Boatyards and warehouses, rather than shophouses, Alkaff Bridge, shaped like a tongkang, was built in 1997. It is George Ord, Singapore’s first Governor after the island became dominated Robertson Quay, with commercial facilities being named after Alkaff Quay, a former riverside warehouse complex a Crown Colony in 1867.

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