It was a time when the only buildings that pierced the skyline were Buddhist temples - while trams and even the occasional car were starting to make an appearance among the rickshaws on newly built roads.
As these amazing pictures show, Bangkok 100 years ago was a budding metropolis experiencing its first population explosion.
In Sampeng Lane, a commercial centre in the old city, residents of the gem quarter - Indians, Thai and Chinese - can be seen plying their trade, eager for custom on a relatively empty street.
The same scene today in Thailand (known as Siam until 1939) shows a district thriving with tourists, snapping up handbags, stickers and plastic bleeping key chains.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2148590/Amazing-photos-Bangkok-100-years-ago-metropolis-making.html#ixzz3BViYEmo5
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It was a time when the only buildings that pierced the skyline were Buddhist temples - while trams and even the occasional car were starting to make an appearance among the rickshaws on newly built roads.
As these amazing pictures show, Bangkok 100 years ago was a budding metropolis experiencing its first population explosion.
In Sampeng Lane, a commercial centre in the old city, residents of the gem quarter - Indians, Thai and Chinese - can be seen plying their trade, eager for custom on a relatively empty street.
The same scene today in Thailand (known as Siam until 1939) shows a district thriving with tourists, snapping up handbags, stickers and plastic bleeping key chains.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2148590/Amazing-photos-Bangkok-100-years-ago-metropolis-making.html#ixzz3BViYEmo5
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