Siam, Thailand & Bangkok Old Photo Thread

**HuangLao** · 23-11-2017, 07:32 AM

**misskit** · 23-11-2017, 01:08 PM

Originally Posted by HuangLao

View from Wat Sri Phum along what is today's Manee Nopparat Road in the direction of Doi Inthanon - 1890

Wow! Not seen this view before. What a difference.

**HuangLao** · 23-11-2017, 06:36 PM

**HuangLao** · 23-11-2017, 06:41 PM

New Phetchaburi Road as seen on April 1977

**HuangLao** · 23-11-2017, 07:18 PM

**HuangLao** · 23-11-2017, 07:21 PM

**misskit** · 23-11-2017, 07:36 PM

^^This looks like what is now McKean Rehabilitation Center. At that time the photo was taken it was a leper colony. Those huts still stand.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/advcity/7586342638

**HuangLao** · 23-11-2017, 07:54 PM

Originally Posted by misskit

^^This looks like what is now McKean Rehabilitation Center. At that time the photo was taken it was a leper colony. Those huts still stand.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/advcity/7586342638

Yes, the old McKean Hospital.
At the time [early 20th century], I believe it was one of but a few in SE Asia that operated as it did.
The Farang doctors, nursing staffs, assistants were brave souls.

If I'm not mistaken, there are a few [of that period] McKean facility referenced photos throughout this thread somewhere.

Thanks, Kitty.

**HuangLao** · 24-11-2017, 06:18 PM

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**HuangLao** · 26-11-2017, 06:37 PM

**HuangLao** · 27-11-2017, 08:39 PM

Seen here, under construction, in Lampang Province - 1909.
Under German engineering advisory, the rail conduit spanned the Khun Tan Mountains that borders Lampang and Lamphun Provinces, taking some 11 years to complete from 1907.
Ensuring the Bangkok-Chaing Mai railroad line.

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**HuangLao** · 29-11-2017, 06:24 PM

**Klondyke** · 29-11-2017, 07:32 PM

Originally Posted by HuangLao

Seen here, under construction, in Lampang Province - 1909.
Under German engineering advisory, the rail conduit spanned the Khun Tan Mountains that borders Lampang and Lamphun Provinces, taking some 11 years to complete from 1907.
Ensuring the Bangkok-Chaing Mai railroad line.

Once Siam declared war to Germany in 1917 all German property in Siam had been seized. The German people involved in the construction of the railway Lampang - Chiang Mai and the tunnel - the longest in Thailand 1.36km, shortly before completion - were removed and taken to an internation in India.

No news about their farther fate, except of the leading engineer Emil Eisenhofer who after escape from India and return to Germany came after years back to Thailand, dying here in 1962.

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**Klondyke** · 29-11-2017, 07:46 PM

Not much has changed over 100 years at the station at the northern side of the tunnel - the highest station in Thailand, 578 m above sea level

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**HuangLao** · 01-12-2017, 06:39 AM

.....early Chulalongkorn era of 1875 Bangkok

**HuangLao** · 01-12-2017, 06:45 PM

**HuangLao** · 02-12-2017, 07:07 AM

A lone mourner awaits the riverside cremation ceremony of King Chao Intavarorodsuriyawong, 1909 Chiang Mai

**HuangLao** · 02-12-2017, 05:30 PM

**HuangLao** · 03-12-2017, 03:37 PM

King Chulalongkorn, Wilhelm II, and their respective entourages in Germany

**HuangLao** · 04-12-2017, 07:35 PM

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Outside the Grand Palace, 1904

Junction of Sanam Chai and Charoen Krung Roads, Bangkok, circa 1909

Before the great change...

Prince Damrong Rajanubhab during his 1922 tour of Chiang Mai and the north

American GI and girlfriend stop to pose outside of Nakhon Sawan - 1973

1861 - Queen Debsirindra's magnificent Phra Meru

British Naval officials visit to Phuket, 1864

1896 - from the King's Khon Drama School

Chinese Muslim community of 1907 Chiang Mai

Khun Tan Mountain Range Railway Tunnel

Construction near the junction of Charoen Krung and Surawong Roads of 1966 Bangkok

Crossing Memorial [Rama 1] Bridge shortly after completion, 1933

1894 river view and closed community from Wat Phra Kaew - looking southwest

Serene Klong Saen Saeb of 1887

View of the rough backside of a yet to be developed Maha Rat Road -

Tai Lue ladies of 1922 Chiang Rai Province

The Last Lanna King

Busy vendors at Chiang Mai Station, 1928

European tour of 1897

Ferry dock on the Tha Chin River, Mahachai, Samut Sakhon Province - circa 1900

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