https://padlet.com/nitya4747/NityaRamasamy_1D_40 The History of Ang Mo Kio en-us 2016-05-27 11:07:56 UTC 2023-01-23 05:15:50 UTC hello@padlet.com https://sg2-cdn.pgimgs.com/cms/news/2016/02/AMK-Main.original.jpg nitya4747 https://padlet.com/nitya4747/NityaRamasamy_1D_40/wish/112823847       Throughout the 19th century, the area where Ang Mo Kio is today was largely uninhabited, due to the forest reserve there. People only started settling there, due to the rubber boom. The significance behind the naming of Ang Mo Kio was that, as the Literal translation of Ang Mo Kio in Hokkien was "Bridge of the Caucasian", this referred to the John Turnbull's bridge that crossed the Kallang River. As Ang Mo(a caucasian person) referred to John Turnbull, this was how Ang Mo Kio got its name.

]]> 2016-05-27 11:21:30 UTC https://padlet.com/nitya4747/NityaRamasamy_1D_40/wish/112823847 nitya4747 https://padlet.com/nitya4747/NityaRamasamy_1D_40/wish/114442372       "Bridge of the Caucasian" is the literal translation for Ang Mo Kio in Hokkien. Ang Mo was a colloquial term used by the locals for a caucasian person. ]]> 2016-06-13 03:23:24 UTC https://padlet.com/nitya4747/NityaRamasamy_1D_40/wish/114442372 nitya4747 https://padlet.com/nitya4747/NityaRamasamy_1D_40/wish/115417959 John Turnbull was a British civil ingineer who built a wooden footbridge, which was replaced by the Elgin Bridge in 1862. ]]> 2016-06-25 04:30:23 UTC https://padlet.com/nitya4747/NityaRamasamy_1D_40/wish/115417959 nitya4747 https://padlet.com/nitya4747/NityaRamasamy_1D_40/wish/115450813 Information Sources:
http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/infopedia/articles/SIP_230_2005-01-25.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ang_Mo_Kio#John_Turnbull_Thomson
http://www.domainethomsonwines.com/our-people.html 
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