Esplanade Park 
From Singapore Hotels & Singapore Lifestyle
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To get to Esplanade Park, take the underpass below Esplanade Bridge and continue into Fullerton Road and the aforementioned Anderson Bridge. Close by is the tree-lined Queen Elizabeth Walk, formerly a seafront promenade where colonial-day Europeans spent their leisure time strolling or playing cricket.
On the left is the Lim Bo Seng Memorial, featuring four bronze lions. It is dedicated to a local hero and martyr, Lim Bo Seng (1909-1944), a businessman who was an active member of an underground resistance movement against the Japanese during World War II. When he was arrested by the Japanese military police, he preferred to die under torture than betray his comrades. Further ahead is the Cenotaph, built to remember the 124 soldiers who died fighting in World Wars I and II.
At the northern end of Esplande Park is Tan Kim Seng Fountain, built in gratitude of a donation "towards the cost of the Singapore Water Works" given in 1857 by the trader and public benefactor, Tan Kim Seng (1805-1864). Apart from his £13,000 contribution to the waterworks (a princely sum in those days), he gave funds to help build the Chinese Free School in Amoy Street.
