The reason why I am bringing you to the Raffles Landing Site first is because I feel that this is the best place to start the tour as it shows what is thought to be the landing site of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, the founder of Singapore. It is located in the Downtown heartland of Singapore, in the middle of the central business district. This is also the second statue of Sir Stamford Raffles as the original statue of Sir Raffles, made in bronze, was melted during the Japanese occupation of Singapore.
The current statue was unveiled by Governer Sir Arthur Henderson Young in 1972 as the new statue of Sir Stamford Raffles after the bronze statue was placed in the musuem but reinstated in its present position only to be replaced by the present statue of Sir Raffles made of pollymarble. The statue is now made of pollymarble which originated from plaster cast. It now stands where Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles was thought to have landed in Singapore and gazed at the ground and thought it was a good place to set up a trading port for the British on the day he landed in Singapore, 29th January 1819.
All Sir Raffles saw was a small fishing village but he managed to develope Singapore into what it is now. This is the reason why I am going to bring you to the site!
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