Title
Postcard depicting tongkang along Singapore River
Year/Period
1970s-1980s
Region
Singapore
Material
Dimension
Object size: 10.5 x 14.7 cm
Accession No.
2018-00099
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of the late Mrs Grace Lim nee Oh Kim Neo and her family
The lineup of tongkang or bumboats used for ferrying goods along the Singapore River would have been a familiar sight prior to the early 1980s before the government commenced the cleaning up of the Singapore River. This postcard captures the shophouses or "old-fashioned godowns" (as captioned on the back od the postcard) at Boat Quay and the loading and unloading of goods at the quayside.
