This 1987 photograph shows Orchard Road, with its high-rise buildings. A traffic junction and a pedestrian crossing can be seen on the right. Orchard Road is named after William Scott's orchard. There were orchards, nutmeg plantations and pepper farms along the road in the 1830s. Title devised by Library staff.

Credit Line

All rights reserved. Lee Kip Lin and National Library Board, Singapore 2009.

Subjects

• Architecture and Landscape>>Streets and Places
• Orchard Road (Singapore)--Photographs
• Roads--Singapore--Orchard Road--Photographs
• Traffic signs and signals--Singapore--Orchard Road--Photographs
• Pedestrian crosswalks--Singapore--Orchard Road--Photographs