Visit Tiong Bahru

TIONG BAHRU AIR RAID SHELTER [SOURCE: SPARKLETTE MAGAZINE] The Tiong Bahru Air Raid Shelter is not only a very special heritage site in Tiong Bahru, but also an important war heritage site of Singapore. It is Singapore’s last pre-WWII civilian air raid shelter that still exists today. It was constructed in the 1939. The shelter…

Though it is one of Singapore’s oldest estates, and can probably be explored end-to-end in a single afternoon, Tiong Bahru remains full of surprises at every turn. 1. It used to be a cemetery As spooky as it may sound, Tiong Bahru was indeed once used as a burial ground for members of the growing…