Gallery

Historical Photographs of Phuket

A single story building sitting next to a canal with a coconut tree in the fore ground
The new Post Office built in 1923. We can see that the Klong Bang Yai River still flowed wide and deep in front of it even at that time.
The steam boat Tong Ho at sea
The Phuket supply ship Thong Ho was sunk by a British submarine off Phuket in 1944.
Three cars and a few people in front of a simple building
Phuket’s airport in the early 1950s.
A group fo bare chested men next to the carcas of a tiger
A tiger shot in 1965.
A Junk Boat at sail in the sea, with an treeline in the background
A local coastal trading junk: many Chinese immigrants arrived in Phuket on such ships.
A street with Sino-Portugues style buildings on either side
Thalang Road in 1903 at the height of Phuket Town’s early construction boom.
A dredging barge sitting in a canal on the island of Phuket
A dredger on the klong that empties into Bang Tao Bay between the Sunwing Hotel and Bliss Beach club site. Such dredgers worked in Bang Tao Bay until the late 1980s.
An early 20th century car on a dirt road, with palm tress and a statue of a white elephant
One of the island’s new cars at the coast beside Chalong pier near to where Kam Eng seafood restaurant sits today.