Most of us would be familiar with the Singapore Stone, a fragment of an ancient stone inscription that once stood at the mouth of the Singapore River and now sits as one of our national treasures in our National Museum. But do you know that there’s another stone that also once stood at the mouth of the Singapore River in more recent times?
Do you recognise this stone? Jerome writes:
For three decades, the stone stood in hope, fading into obscurity at its original location on the promenade along Fullerton Road (opposite the Fullerton Building), as it lay vainly in wait for the monument that it was meant to be a forerunner of. It was a stone that I had observed and perhaps been guilty at times of ignoring, on the many walks along that same promenade that my parents were fond of taking in my childhood, one that we made regularly which would take us from Empress Place via Anderson Bridge to Clifford Pier, when it seemed to deserve no more than a cursory glance. There were a few occasions however when I did try to acquaint myself with the grey block, tracing the inscriptions on its four faces with my fingers, wondering for how much longer it would sit there as the world passed it by.
Where is this stone now? What did it commemorate? Find out in Jerome’s post here.
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