Within Kampong Bengkulu was Kampong Serani in the vicinity of Queen Street and Manila Street. ‘Serani’ is the Malay equivalent of the...

Within the vicinity of Kampong Bengkulu, near Kampong Serani was Kampong Dhoby (also spelt ‘Dobie’ and ‘Dobi’) at the upper end of Queen...

Map of the Kampongs location with the the European Town Although the area was designated as the ‘European Town’, this label was never...

Beach Road Area In the Jackson Plan, which was based on Stamford Raffles’s vision of Singapore laid out in 1822, much of Beach Road was...