Lim Bo Seng Memorial is dedicated to a World War 2 hero named Lim Bo Seng. He was named as Major General Lim Boh Seng. He had taken such an active part in anti-Japanese activities that the authorities had considered banishing him.
       In 1943, Lim Bo Seng returned to Perak to join the guerillas but was caught by the Japanese was put in the Ipoh Prison at Batu Gajah and there he was unmercilessly tortured. In the end, he died on 29th June 1944 while succumbed under the immense suffering and was buried in a shallow grave in the jungle near the prison.
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The present statue located at Raffles' Landing Site is Singapore's second of Sir Stamford Raffles.The first,cast in bronze by a british sculptor-poet Thomas Woolner in 1887.the statue is now located at the right bank of the singapore river.the office towers opposite the statue serve as a backdrop.The statue marks what is thought to be the site where Sir Stamford Raffles landed on 29 January 1819.Raffles was the founder of Singapore.
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The statues along the river represent  the life in the past when singapore was a fishing village.The statues also shows the jobs singapore had in the past.At the singapore river there is the most important statue in the singapore river,the Sir Stamford Raffles statue.The statue represents where Sir Stamford Raffles first step on singapore soil.
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This is a beautiful Victorian fountain built to commemorate Mr Tan Kim Seng for his generous donations. In 1857,he  donated a sum of $13,000 to the Municipal Council for the purpose of bringing free piped water to the Town.

Tan Kim Seng was acknowledged as a Chinese leader in Singapore and Malacca. He was the first Asian to be appointed as a member of the Municipal Commission in 1857. He also funded a Chinese Free School and supported the Tan Tock Seng Hospital. Kim Seng Road is named after him.
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Originally known as the Edinburgh Bridge to commemorate the visit of the Duke of Edinburgh, its name was changed to Cavenagh Bridge in honour of Major General William Orfeur Cavenagh, the last India-appointed Governor of the Straits Settlements, who governed from 1859 to 1867.[1] The coat of arms of the Cavenagh family can still be seen atop the signage at both ends of the bridge.


Cavenagh Bridge linked the Civic District on the northern bank to the Commercial District on the southern bank of the Singapore River. Before Cavenagh Bridge was constructed, people could only get to the two districts via a detour over Elgin Bridge or by paying 1 duit (¼ cent) for a boat ride across the river.

This bridge has elaborate suspension struts in comparison with most other suspension bridges, and is the third bridge to be built in Singapore. It was constructed in 1869 to allay the inconvenience of crossing the Singapore River by boat. It was originally designed as a drawbridge but on its completion was found to be suitable only as a fixed structure. Numerous steel rivets were used in its construction, which employed steel casting methods commonly used during that era.
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