The new year started the same way as the last year ended considering the Royal Gazette announcements - both the final one and the first announcements by the Fine Arts Department on historical sites.
On December 28th, the historical site
Wat Arun was announced [
Gazette]. However, as it was already announced before in 1949, this time it probably was only a clarification of the extend of the protected site, as the
original announcement did not include any map, but was just a listing of 36 site names all over Bangkok.
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| Map of Damrong Phaetyakhon residence |
January 3rd a new site
was announced, the
residence of Phraya Damrong Phaetyakhon (Huat Wirawaithaya) [in Thai: บ้านพลตรีพระยาดำรงแพทยาคุณ (ฮวด วีระไวทยะ)], a building now used by the Operation Center for Displaced Persons (สำนักงานศูนย์ดำเนินการเกี่ยวกับผู้อพยพ) of the Ministry of Interior. As it is not far from the National Library I guess I'll have a photo opportunity next time I'm in Bangkok - I probably have to visit the National Library in order to get any detailed data on the 1919 and 1929 census, so far did not find any other library to have anything.
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