How well do you know your civic district? The oldest portion of modern Singapore is full of buildings from the colonial period and monuments to great people and events past. Jerome blogs about a heritage walk he participated in, organised by the National Library, on the heritage sites around the Padang.
Jerome writes:
Starting at the centre of the Padang where Raffles had once proudly stood, a leisurely morning’s stroll around the Padang with Pugalenthii Ramakrishnan and the National Library Board on Saturday through familiar territory did throw up a few surprises. Moving to the Esplanade towards where the Tan Kim Seng Fountain stands, the sight of a snake charmer with his python on the grass probably caught not just me, but the others on the walk by surprise. For me snake charmers were something that I had somehow always associated the Esplanade with, along with the Satay Club, Chendol at the semi-circular hawker centre, and the colourful balloon and windmill sellers who would support their air filled balloons not with sticks as we do these days but with long skinny balloons
What else did Jerome see during his walk around the Padang? Check out his post here.
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