BMA Brown Tourist Signs

[The Enforcer!]

I only noticed yesterday (and no doubt it has been there for years) but the BMA has puit a tourist sign up at the Sathorn end of Suan Phlu, which gives a potted history of the road and (in)famous residents.

Are there many of these such signs around?

The Enforcer!

[jpatokal]

Quite a few, I think. I keep running into them in strange places, like Ko Kret (http://jpatokal.iki.fi/photo/travel/Thailand/KoKret/index.html) (where it was probably the only thing in English on the entire island), the famously weird Gothic Buddhist temple next to Bang Pa-In, etc.

[GWR]

I seem to remember seeing one down a side soi near the Oriental Hotel or the RC Cathedral, but can't who it was for.

[ncr]

They are actually quite common in Rattanakosin and at famous landmarks, but as the others said above, you'll sometimes also find them in not-so-touristy places where you wouldn't expect them.

[Jromerz]

Yes.. often you'll find them in unusual places. I remember seeing one at Sala Thammasop train station (South/West line, station before Salaya when leaving BKK) explaining the history of the train station and the area - and i'm sure that no tourists would ever get off at this station, actually hardly anyone uses the station at all..

[The Enforcer!]

I do not suppose anyone has the text of all the signs?

The one in Suan Phlu is marvellous for what it fails to say .. Soi Phra Phannit was named after Phinit Chonkhadi, who was a Director General of the Metropolitan Police - what it fails to say who he really was ... the cop who tried to frame Pridi Bhanomyong for the death of Rama XIII.

Wonderful thing history ... always written by the winner.

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[ncr]

Rama XIII???