The spacious front steps form one of Singapore's most historic public spaces: here, in 1945, Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, accepted the Japanese Surrender from General Itagaki, formally ending the Japanese Occupation of Singapore; here, in 1951, Singapore was proclaimed a city by Royal Charter granted by King George VI; here in 1959, the proclamation of self-government in Singapore was made by then prime minister Lee Kuan Yew; and here, Mr. Lee declared Singapore an independent republic in 1965. For more information, you can view the source from here.
6 comments:
Great building, great steps and great history... in fact.. a great Post :O)
Beautiful building full of history.
I have taggeg you, hope you don't mind and share your life with us.
what a beautiful building and interesting history! those steps look so impossible to climb up though...
Thanks for the nice comments.
Kitem, thanks for tagging me. I had been tagged by clarice about some info. about myself. You might like to view it here: http://alicesg.blogspot.com/2008/02/i-have-been-tagged.html
yup those are some great pillars lots of steps there as well.
amazing structure. its similar to our hall of justice here with large circular columns.
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