So many Singaporeans as well as tourists from around the world come to Pulau ubinn for enjoying it’s beauty, amazing weather, closeness to nature, bum-boat, cycling, bike riding and sea food. Especially those from Singapore, it’s a well known rural getaway destination with so many amazing things to experience along with a chance to know the real, rustic Singapore village time that was in the decade of 1960s. Many sites on Pulau ubin have historical significance and have mysteries ingrained which many of us do not really know. More information visit this link: http://pulauubinbrt.com/7-historical-facts-about-pulau-ubin-you-never-knew/

1. 7 historical facts about Pulau
Ubin you never knew
So many Singaporeans as well as
tourists from around the world come
to Pulau ubinn for enjoying it’s
beauty, amazing weather, closeness
to nature, bum-boat, cycling, bike
riding and sea food.

2. Especially those from Singapore, it’s a
well known rural getaway destination
with so many amazing things
to experience along with a chance to
know the real, rustic Singapore village
time that was in the decade of 1960s.
Many sites on Pulau ubin have historical
significance and have mysteries
ingrained which many of us do not really
know.

3. To help our loyal readers, we have
collected some historical and mystery
facts about Pulau Ubin that would
amaze you.

4. 1. In 1825, exactly one year after
Singapore was ceded to the British, Dr
John Crawfurd the Resident, made an
expedition trip around the island,
Pulau Ubin or Obin as it was spelt, to
take formal possession of it. On 4
August 1825, they landed in Pulo Obin,
hoisted a British Flag there, and fired a
21-gun salute.

5. The occupants then were a few local
woodcutters who lived in huts. It is
believed that a certain Encik Endun Senin
who had been living along Kallang River,
had initiated the major move for local
settlers to the island in the 1880s.
Chinese quarry workers soon followed.
In 2000, there were 250 residents on the
island most of whom were fishermen.

6. 2. On the evening of 7 February,
1942, during World War II, the
Japanese Army occupied Pulau Ubin;
and the next day, began a heavy
bombardment on Changi itself.
The Changi fortress artillery replied
with great intensity but with little
effect, destroying only rubber trees
on the island.

7. Despite these actions the Japanese had no
real intentions of landing in the east. It
was a tactic merely to distract the British.
That night the enemy made their assault
across the narrowest part of the Johore
Strait, and the standby defenders of
Changi had to stand idle, while the
Japanese rapidly breezed through, and
gained a stranglehold on the western part
of Singapore island.
Ubin Jetty (1965)

8. 3. Since the British founding of Singapore,
the island has been known for its granite.
The numerous granite quarries on the
island supply the local construction
industry. The granite outcrops are
particularly spectacular from the sea
because their grooves and fluted sides
create furrows and ridges on each granite
rock slab. These features are captured in
John Turnbull Thomson’s 1850 painting —
Grooved stones on Pulo Ubin near
Singapore.

9. 4. Most of the quarries are not in
operation today and are being slowly
recolonised by vegetation or filled with
water. Apart from quarrying, farming and
fishing were the principal occupations of
the inhabitants of the island in the past. It
is also called Selat Tebrau (tebrau is a kind
of large fish). In the 1970s as the granite
quarries closed down and jobs dwindled,
residents began leaving.

10. 5. Most of the quarries are not in
operation today and are being slowly
recolonised by vegetation or filled with
water. Apart from quarrying, farming and
fishing were the principal occupations of
the inhabitants of the island in the past.
It is also called Selat Tebrau (tebrau is a
kind of large fish). In the 1970s as the
granite quarries closed down and jobs
dwindled, residents began leaving.

11. 6. Located at the eastern tip of Pulau Ubin,
House No. 1
is believed to be Singapore’s
only remaining authentic Tudor-style house
with a working fireplace. It is a A unique
pre-war structure, it was variously called
the English Bungalow/Cottage and House
No. 1. A delightful home under pine trees,
with its own jetty, it has a great view of
Pulau Sekudu and mainland Singapore.

12. The two-storey building has a lovely airy
verandah and comes complete with
fireplace. It was built in the 1930’s in the
English Lytyensequeor Tudor style. Built
in the 1930s by the then Chief Surveyor,
Langdon Williams, as a holiday retreat.
The architecture is Tudor-style, with
adaptations to the tropical climate, and is
similar to the cottages built in tea
plantations during the British colonial
era.

13. The architecture is Tudor-style, with
adaptations to the tropical climate, and is
similar to the cottages built in tea plantations
during the British colonial era. Other
accounts it was said be originally be the
vacation home for the resident British
medical officer. It is said the home was later
taken over by a rubber company and the
local rubber estate manager stayed in it.

14. 7. The German Girl’s Shrine holds the
remains of a German girl who died in
1914 when she accidentally fell off a
steep cliff whilst running away from the
British who had come to take over the
plantation. It is said that her body was
discovered the next day, covered in ants
and buried at the beach where she was
found.

15. They call her the German Girl, or the Nadu
Guniang – a Malay-Chinese appropriation of
the words ‘Datuk’ and ‘Miss’. She makes her
home in a yellow shack by an Assam tree,
among carpets of lallang and grass. The
villagers kept seeing her ghost so her remains
were moved to a nearby Chinese shrine and
kept in an urn. The remains were eventually
looted, but the urn remains. The place: Pulau
Ubin’s south-western plains.

16. Do you know any other historical
facts about Pulau ubin that you think
that the readers of this blog must
know? Doo comment or get in touch
with us and let’s make the world
educated about so many interesting
things about this island.

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http://pulauubinbrt.com/7-historical-facts-
about-pulau-ubin-you-never-knew/