After the power station was decommissioned in the 1970s, the machineries were removed. The space was converted for use for the club when the Power Station underwent restoration and conversion for adaptive re-use in 2005. How to get there? - By train: Alight at Harbour Front Station (within walking distance) - By bus: 10,30,57,61,65,80,97,100,131,143,145,166,855,30E, 97E,NR1 and NR6 Church of St Teresa at 2 Bukit Purmei, Singapore 099865 Officially opened on 7 April 1929, the Church of St Teresa is located on Bukit Purmei, which means “beautiful” or “fair hill” in Malay. Part of the Church’s beauty can be found on its stained glass panels which depict the story of St Teresa. The Church is modelled after the Romano-Byzantine design of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Montmartre, Paris and has excellent exterior and interior composition of detailing, ornamentation and craftsmanship. The Church was originally built to serve the Hokkien-dialect Chinese Catholics in the Kampong Bahru area including the port workers; it also catered to the Catholics in Havelock Road, Cantonment Road, Trafalgar Street, Outram Road, Alexandra Road and Pasir Panjang. As part of its mission, the Church initiated the establishment of Catholic Schools in Singapore, such as the Carmelite Convent, St. Teresa’s High School and Catholic High School.
Church of St. Teresa in Kampong Bahru, 1989 (Source: National Archives of Singapore)
How to get there? - By train and bus: Alight at Harbour Front Station and board bus 61, 143 and 166 to head to Kampung Bahru Road - By bus: 61,124,143 and 166. Alight at Kampung Bahru Road (before/ after Bukit Purmei, depending on which direction you are coming from) Bowyer Block at the Singapore General Hospital at 11 Third Hospital Avenue, Singapore 168751 Today’s Bowyer Block is known as the SGH Museum and its iconic clock tower is distinguishable from afar. Formerly known as the Upper Block, the Bowyer Block was renamed in honour of Doctor John Herbert Bowyer (the Chief Medical Officer who died during the war) after the war in 1946 when the Singapore General Hospital reopened as a civilian hospital. Prior to that, the Hospital functioned as a military hospital and the Bowyer Block was painted red and white (the colours of the red cross) to reflect that function. The Bowyer Block is an important physical reminder of the two landmarks in Singapore’s medical history, one of which is the opening of the new General Hospital by Sir Laurence Guillemard on 29 March 1926. The Singapore General Hospital was established in 1921 and is Singapore’s oldest hospital. Its medical facilities were upgraded with the establishment of a new hospital building which featured three main blocks known as the Upper, Middle and Lower Blocks. These blocks were renamed Bowyer, Stanley and Norris Blocks respectively to memorialise three doctors who were closely associated with the hospital and who died during the Second World War.
remaining of the three medical blocks as the other two blocksStanley and Norris- were demolished during the Hospital’s upgrading in 1975. Today’s Bowyer Block is half of what it used to be as an arm of the block was demolished to make way for the Hospital’s car park.
In particular, the Upper Block (Bowyer Block) was built with a portico and a clock tower by architect, Major P.H. Keys, It is the
The Bowyer Block has been readapted for use as the SGH Museum.
Statue of St. Teresa, undated. (Source: Preservation Monuments Board)
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