Share your Stories – Public Contribution of Sites and Structures
Do you have fond memories or photos of these places?
We would be delighted if you could share your stories and pictures with us and help us in enriching our collective knowledge of these places which Singaporeans have studied, worked and visited before and are significant to our community.
To contribute, simply click on each image and you will be led to a page to submit your stories and pictures.
This public contribution effort is part of our Tangible Heritage Survey that will enable us to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the diverse heritage of our buildings and sites across the island, and to address the current gaps in our information repository.
Fret not if you have a memory of a place that is not on this list. You can share your memory with us at this link. Also, watch this space as we progressively release more buildings & sites seeking public contributions.
Your contribution is important to us as we believe that establishing a comprehensive collective knowledge base of our heritage that would help us develop better quality exhibitions, programmes and other heritage resources on www.roots.sg.
We look forward to hearing from you!
<kml xmlns:xmnls="http://earth.google.com/kml/2.2"><Document><Folder>NhbSurvey<Placemark><name>36 - 38 Armenian Street</name><id>04</id><description>These two clusters of four-storey Art Deco shophouses were built between 1930s and 1940s. Its most famous occupants, the Mayfair City Hotel opened in 1950s and established itself as a popular hotel with travellers in the 1960s. The hotel operated ...</description><category>Civic</category><image>/-/media/nhb/images/heritagesite/04-36_38_armenian_street.jpg</image><link>/heritage?sitename=04</link><Point><coordinates>103.8494834,1.294185664</coordinates></Point></Placemark><Placemark><name>4 Goodwood Hill</name><id>34</id><description>Built in 1960, this beautiful colonial building on the top of Goodwood Hill once served as a training centre for civil servants in topics such as Government Audit and the role of the Civil Service and Public Service Commission.
According ...</description><category>Civic</category><image>/-/media/nhb/images/heritagesite/2_goodwood_hill.jpg</image><link>/heritage?sitename=34</link><Point><coordinates>103.8343123,1.312352597</coordinates></Point></Placemark><Placemark><name>Ascott Centre for Excellence</name><id>01</id><description>The compound of Ascott Centre for Excellence was originally the campus for Anthony Road Girls' School. The school was one of the first four “emergency” schools that were built in 1950, under the Supplementary Education Plan launched to provide ...</description><category>Educational</category><image>/-/media/nhb/images/heritagesite/01-ascott_centre_for_excellence.jpg</image><link>/heritage?sitename=01</link><Point><coordinates>103.8387063,1.310991521</coordinates></Point></Placemark><Placemark><name>Balestier Plain</name><id>37</id><description>Balestier Plain refers to the playing fields bounded by Balestier Road from Tessensohn Road to Moulmein Road. The field, which existed since the early 1900s, had been associated with eight sports clubs over the years, namely the Ceylon Sports ...</description><category>Civic</category><image>/-/media/nhb/images/heritagesite/2_balestier_plains.jpg</image><link>/heritage?sitename=37</link><Point><coordinates>103.8551192,1.31756345</coordinates></Point></Placemark><Placemark><name>Berlayer Beacon</name><id>36</id><description>Located on an outcrop at the southernmost end of Labrador Park, the iconic seven-metre tall structure at Tanjong Berlayer served as a navigational beacon for boats and ships approaching Keppel Harbour in the mid-20th century. Ships entering ...</description><category>Structure</category><image>/-/media/nhb/images/heritagesite/2_berlayer_beacon.jpg</image><link>/heritage?sitename=36</link><Point><coordinates>103.8051316,1.262406178</coordinates></Point></Placemark><Placemark><name>Bras Basah Complex</name><id>24</id><description>Bras Basah Complex was known as书城 (<i>shu cheng</i>, meaning “City of Books” in Mandarin) as the complex is famed for its numerous bookstores. It is also known as 百胜楼 (<i>bai sheng lou</i> in Mandarin). The complex consists of two blocks of ...</description><category>Civic</category><image>/-/media/nhb/images/heritagesite/2_bras_basah_complex.jpg</image><link>/heritage?sitename=24</link><Point><coordinates>103.8535286,1.296893303</coordinates></Point></Placemark><Placemark><name>Cairnhill Art Centre</name><id>23</id><description>The three-storey high building incorporated elements of Chinese architecture such as the upturned eaves and the use of geometrical motifs on beams and wall surfaces. The building was designed by Swan and Maclaren, a prominent architectural firm ...</description><category>Civic</category><image>/-/media/nhb/images/heritagesite/2_cairnhill_art_centre.jpg</image><link>/heritage?sitename=23</link><Point><coordinates>103.8374339,1.308067714</coordinates></Point></Placemark><Placemark><name>Changi Cottage</name><id>20</id><description>The seaside cottage was formerly part of the Royal Air Force’s (RAF) Changi military family area in the 1930s to 1960s. It was subsequently used as a holiday bungalow for senior members of the Singapore Government during the 1960s-80s. The Changi ...</description><category>Structure</category><image>/-/media/nhb/images/heritagesite/20-changi_cottage.jpg</image><link>/heritage?sitename=20</link><Point><coordinates>103.9826892,1.392286415</coordinates></Point></Placemark><Placemark><name>Communicable Disease Centre 1</name><id>06</id><description>Frequent outbreaks of diseases such as typhoid, cholera and malaria prompted the British Administration to establish the Government Infectious Disease Camp in 1907 along Balestier Road. The facility was moved to its present site in 1913. The ...</description><category>Civic</category><image>/-/media/nhb/images/heritagesite/06-cdc_1.jpg</image><link>/heritage?sitename=06</link><Point><coordinates>103.8505052,1.320323607</coordinates></Point></Placemark><Placemark><name>Fairfield Methodist Church </name><id>13</id><description>The site of Fairfield Methodist Church was formerly the Metropole, otherwise known as Jing Hwa Cinema. It was one of Chinatown's three famous cinemas, the others being Oriental and Majestic. Designed in the Modernist style by local architect ...</description><category>Community</category><image>/-/media/nhb/images/heritagesite/12-fairfield_methodist_church.jpg</image><link>/heritage?sitename=13</link><Point><coordinates>103.839177,1.277843836</coordinates></Point></Placemark><Placemark><name>Goodman Arts Centre </name><id>02</id><description>Three schools occupied the site which now houses the Goodman Arts Centre. From 1960s to the late 1980s, the site was first used by the Tun Seri Lanang Malay Secondary School. It was subsequently expanded between 1993 and 1995 in preparation ...</description><category>Educational</category><image>/-/media/nhb/images/heritagesite/02-goodman_arts_centre.jpg</image><link>/heritage?sitename=02</link><Point><coordinates>103.8850137,1.304059037</coordinates></Point></Placemark><Placemark><name>Haw Par Villa</name><id>28</id><description>Haw Par Villa is located on a hill side in Pasir Panjang. It originally comprised a villa designed by architect Ho Kwang Yew and a large garden space. The compound was a gift from Mr Aw Boon Haw to his younger brother Mr Aw Boon Par. They were ...</description><category>Community</category><image>/-/media/nhb/images/heritagesite/2_haw_par_villa.jpg</image><link>/heritage?sitename=28</link><Point><coordinates>103.7822896,1.283552586</coordinates></Point></Placemark><Placemark><name>Hollandse Club</name><id>31</id><description>The Hollandse Club was founded in 1908 by Mr J.C. Koopman for the growing Dutch community in Singapore. Mr Koopman owned a house on Grange Road and used it as the first clubhouse. It subsequently built its clubhouse in Cairnhill Road.
The ...</description><category>Community</category><image>/-/media/nhb/images/heritagesite/2_hollandse_club.jpg</image><link>/heritage?sitename=31</link><Point><coordinates>103.8164616,1.329997597</coordinates></Point></Placemark><Placemark><name>Home Team Career Centre</name><id>22</id><description>The three-storey Neoclassical former Fairfield Methodist Girl's School features a rarely-seen broken pediment and urn ornament on the top of the building's central bay. It was the second building used by the Fairfield Methodist School.
The ...</description><category>Educational</category><image>/-/media/nhb/images/heritagesite/2_home_team_career_centre.jpg</image><link>/heritage?sitename=22</link><Point><coordinates>103.8391707,1.277893575</coordinates></Point></Placemark><Placemark><name>Kheng Chiu Building and Tin Hou Kong</name><id>07</id><description>The Kheng Chiu building houses the Kheng Chiu Tin Hou Kong (琼州天后宫), a Chinese temple dedicated to the Chinese seafaring goddess Mazu, and the Kheng Chiu Hwee Kuan (琼州会馆), the main Hainanese clan association in Singapore. Established in 1857, ...</description><category>Civic</category><image>/-/media/nhb/images/heritagesite/07-kheng_chiu_building.jpg</image><link>/heritage?sitename=07</link><Point><coordinates>103.8559412,1.296402213</coordinates></Point></Placemark><Placemark><name>Kim Mui Hoey Kuan</name><id>05</id><description>In 1919, clansmen from Kim Mui (金门) County established the clan association at their clan temple at Smith Street, which was founded in 1876.In 1955, the Singapore Improvement Trust had acquired the land for residential use, and the Clan Association ...</description><category>Civic</category><image>/-/media/nhb/images/heritagesite/05-kim_mui_hoey_kuan.jpg</image><link>/heritage?sitename=05</link><Point><coordinates>103.8474123,1.312544281</coordinates></Point></Placemark><Placemark><name>Kreta Ayer People's Theatre</name><id>08</id><description>Kreta Ayer People’s Theatre is synonymous with Chinese theatrical arts and operas performed in ‘dialects’, particularly in Cantonese. Officially opened on 24 March 1969, it started out as an open-air stage and was expanded twice in 1971 and ...</description><category>Civic</category><image>/-/media/nhb/images/heritagesite/08-kreta_ayer_peoples_theatre.jpg</image><link>/heritage?sitename=08</link><Point><coordinates>103.8427398,1.281322013</coordinates></Point></Placemark><Placemark><name>Madrasah Alsagoff Al-Arabiah </name><id>03</id><description>Built in 1912, the school was named after Syed Mohamed bin Ahmed Alsagoff, a wealthy Arab who hailed from Hadramaut, Yemen. Syed Mohamed was an influential merchant and philanthropist in Singapore’s early colonial days. The Yemenis arrived in ...</description><category>Educational</category><image>/-/media/nhb/images/heritagesite/03-madrasah_alsagoff_al-arabiah.jpg</image><link>/heritage?sitename=03</link><Point><coordinates>103.8606389,1.303523134</coordinates></Point></Placemark><Placemark><name>Masjid Tentera Diraja</name><id>30</id><description>Masjid Tentera Diraja or Tentera Diraja Mosque traces its roots to the Muslims serving in the British Army before Singapore’s independence. This is also evident in the use of "<i>Tentera Diraja</i>" meaning the King's Army in Malay.
The single ...</description><category>Community</category><image>/-/media/nhb/images/heritagesite/2_masjid_tentera_diraja.jpg</image><link>/heritage?sitename=30</link><Point><coordinates>103.7691238,1.29871305</coordinates></Point></Placemark><Placemark><name>Maxwell Food Centre</name><id>09</id><description>Maxwell Food Centre is an iconic culinary landmark in Singapore. However, few know that it began as a wet market of a bygone era. During the Japanese Occupation, the market contained a government co-operative store known as the Kumiai (‘union’ ...</description><category>Civic</category><image>/-/media/nhb/images/heritagesite/08-maxwell_food_centre.jpg</image><link>/heritage?sitename=09</link><Point><coordinates>103.8447363,1.28032449</coordinates></Point></Placemark><Placemark><name>Mount Emily Villa</name><id>17</id><description>Also known the Osborne House, the building had been used as the Japanese Consul-General Office before the Second World War and was subsequently occupied by the Social Welfare Department. It then became a children's home, a counselling centre ...</description><category>Community</category><image>/-/media/nhb/images/heritagesite/17-mount_emily_villa.jpg</image><link>/heritage?sitename=17</link><Point><coordinates>103.8486334,1.303311615</coordinates></Point></Placemark><Placemark><name>Mount Imbiah Battery</name><id>35</id><description>The Mount Imbiah Battery began life as an infantry redoubt in the 1880s, staffed by 82 infantry soldiers and 19 gunners responsible for manning its coastal gun. A redoubt is a type of fort built outside a larger fort to provide additional defence ...</description><category>Structure</category><image>/-/media/nhb/images/heritagesite/2_mount_imbiah_battery.jpg</image><link>/heritage?sitename=35</link><Point><coordinates>103.8147217,1.256561353</coordinates></Point></Placemark><Placemark><name>Newton Food Centre</name><id>27</id><description>The Newton Food Centre is one of the earliest hawker centres built in 1971. In its early days, the hawker centre was promoted by the Singapore Tourism Promotion Board as a destination to sample Singaporean cuisine. To project the image of a ...</description><category>Civic</category><image>/-/media/nhb/images/heritagesite/2_newton_food_centre.jpg</image><link>/heritage?sitename=27</link><Point><coordinates>103.839559,1.311907642</coordinates></Point></Placemark><Placemark><name>Orchard Road Presbyterian Church</name><id>16</id><description>The Orchard Road Presbyterian Church was constructed in 1878. However, its origins date back to the early colonial periods of Singapore, when the East India Company (EIC) contributed funds to build a worship hall, which later became the Mission ...</description><category>Community</category><image>/-/media/nhb/images/heritagesite/16-orchard_rd_presbyterian_church.png</image><link>/heritage?sitename=16</link><Point><coordinates>103.8474527,1.297956878</coordinates></Point></Placemark><Placemark><name>Paya Lebar Airbase</name><id>19</id><description>The Paya Lebar Airport was developed between 1952 and 1955. It was regarded as a symbol of the then-colony’s post-war rapid development and modernisation. The airport has seen several subsequent expansions, such as the addition of the passenger ...</description><category>Structure</category><image>/-/media/nhb/images/heritagesite/19-paya_lebar_airbase.jpg</image><link>/heritage?sitename=19</link><Point><coordinates>103.9002173,1.342701247</coordinates></Point></Placemark><Placemark><name>People's Park Complex</name><id>10</id><description>The People's Park Complex was completed in 1973 and was regarded as an emblem of Asian Modernism. The building featured Singapore's first atrium in a shopping centre, a concept pioneered by the Metabolist Movement of Japan in the 1960s. The ...</description><category>Civic</category><image>/-/media/nhb/images/heritagesite/09-peoples_park_complex.jpg</image><link>/heritage?sitename=10</link><Point><coordinates>103.84287,1.279019499</coordinates></Point></Placemark><Placemark><name>Plaza Singapura</name><id>11</id><description>Plaza Singapura (狮城大厦) opened in 1974. It was developed by DBS Land, and was one of the first shopping centres in Singapore. As the then-largest shopping centre, it also played a role in reinventing the retail scene in Orchard Road. Unlike some ...</description><category>Civic</category><image>/-/media/nhb/images/heritagesite/11-plazasingapura.jpg</image><link>/heritage?sitename=11</link><Point><coordinates>103.845032,1.300756804</coordinates></Point></Placemark><Placemark><name>SEAMEO Regional Language Centre (RELC)</name><id>21</id><description>The Regional Language Centre began as the Regional English Language Centre (RELC) in 1968. It was first conceived during the 2nd conference of the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education in Manila organised by the Southeast Asian Ministers of ...</description><category>Educational</category><image>/-/media/nhb/images/heritagesite/2_regional_language_centre.jpg</image><link>/heritage?sitename=21</link><Point><coordinates>103.8261895,1.312928667</coordinates></Point></Placemark><Placemark><name>Selegie House</name><id>32</id><description>Selegie House is a building complex that consist of one block of 20-storey flats and two blocks of 10-storey flats. These blocks used to be linked by four rows of 2-storey blocks which had since been demolished and replaced with link ways.
At ...</description><category>Community</category><image>/-/media/nhb/images/heritagesite/2_selegie_house.jpg</image><link>/heritage?sitename=32</link><Point><coordinates>103.8507009,1.303458108</coordinates></Point></Placemark><Placemark><name>Singapore Polytechnic</name><id>12</id><description>Singapore Polytechnic at Dover Road was built on the site of the previous Princess Mary Barracks, which was occupied by the British and Malayan soldiers from 1951 to the early 1970s. The construction of the school campus began in 1974 and was ...</description><category>Civic</category><image>/-/media/nhb/images/heritagesite/11-singaporepoly.jpg</image><link>/heritage?sitename=12</link><Point><coordinates>103.7758591,1.311737868</coordinates></Point></Placemark><Placemark><name>Singapore Sindhi Association</name><id>26</id><description>The Singapore Sindhi Association (SSA) traces its roots to 1921 where 10 members came together to form the Sindhi Merchants Association. The association established its first premises in 1938 at Engor Street to provide Sindhi travellers in transit ...</description><category>Civic</category><image>/-/media/nhb/images/heritagesite/2_singapore_sindhi_association.jpg</image><link>/heritage?sitename=26</link><Point><coordinates>103.8957351,1.301943486</coordinates></Point></Placemark><Placemark><name>SMU Residences' at Prinsep Street</name><id>33</id><description>The three blocks of four-storey apartments at the SMU Residences were converted from former Singapore Improvement Trust (SIT) blocks. The SIT blocks were completed in 1951 and was part of a larger SIT estate which comprised seven blocks of ...</description><category>Community</category><image>/-/media/nhb/images/heritagesite/2_smu_residences.jpg</image><link>/heritage?sitename=33</link><Point><coordinates>103.8508402,1.302256208</coordinates></Point></Placemark><Placemark><name>Sri Senpaga Vinayagar Temple </name><id>14</id><description>Sri Senpaga Vinayagar Temple traces its origins to a small shrine in the 1850s. It was said that a statue of Lord Vinayagar was found by the side of a pond beside a Chempaka tree, which was called Senpaga in Tamil. The first temple building ...</description><category>Community</category><image>/-/media/nhb/images/heritagesite/13-sri_senpaga_vinayagar_temple.jpg</image><link>/heritage?sitename=14</link><Point><coordinates>103.9024671,1.305530921</coordinates></Point></Placemark><Placemark><name>Teochew Building</name><id>25</id><description>The Teochew Building is a three-storey building constructed with Chinese architectural elements such as the upturned roof eaves and the balcony balustrade with Oriental motifs. The building was completed in 1963 and it occupied the former site ...</description><category>Civic</category><image>/-/media/nhb/images/heritagesite/2_teochew_building.jpg</image><link>/heritage?sitename=25</link><Point><coordinates>103.8434173,1.295387597</coordinates></Point></Placemark><Placemark><name>The Substation</name><id>15</id><description>The Substation, a much-loved arts venue today, began as a medium-size three-storey electrical substation building along Armenian Street. It abuts a row of shophouses, sharing the street with other landmarks, including the former MPH Bookshop ...</description><category>Community</category><image>/-/media/nhb/images/heritagesite/15-the_substation.jpg</image><link>/heritage?sitename=15</link><Point><coordinates>103.8493306,1.294438888</coordinates></Point></Placemark><Placemark><name>Wesley Methodist Church</name><id>29</id><description>The Wesley Methodist Church is the first Methodist Church established in Singapore by Reverend William Oldham, Reverend Dr and Mrs James Thoburn and Miss Julia Battle in 1885. Early services were conducted at the Town Hall until the establishment ...</description><category>Community</category><image>/-/media/nhb/images/heritagesite/2_wesley_methodist_church.jpg</image><link>/heritage?sitename=29</link><Point><coordinates>103.8476809,1.2971122</coordinates></Point></Placemark><Placemark><name>Whampoa Dragon Fountain</name><id>18</id><description>Completed in 1973, the Dragon Fountain at Whampoa Drive used to be situated within a large park land. However, part of the park gave way to the development of Central Expressway (CTE), leaving the fountain occupying a thin strip of land in front ...</description><category>Structure</category><image>/-/media/nhb/images/heritagesite/18-whampoa_dragon_fountain.jpg</image><link>/heritage?sitename=18</link><Point><coordinates>103.8566872,1.322617024</coordinates></Point></Placemark></Folder></Document></kml>
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