Title
View of Cavenagh Bridge
Year/Period
1940s
Region
Singapore
Object Type
Material
Dimension
Image size: L7.9 x W5.9 cm
Accession No.
1997-03418
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. E. Nunn
Cavenagh Bridge was proposed in 1867 and built by 1869 in response to decades of complaints about the inconvenience of getting from the northern administrative district to Commercial Square to the south. The bridge was built also to commemorate the founding of the Crown Colony of the Straits Settlements in 1867 and named after the last India-appointed Governor of Singapore, Sir William Orfeur Cavenagh. The cast-iron suspension bridge was shipped from Glasgow by P. & W. MacLellan, the same engineering firm that fabricated the steel for the new Telok Ayer Market.
