Without any consultation of local architects, before any heritage officials or local campaigners could get to the site, the 120-year-old teak Green House was pulled down in a day, gone before anyone could protest, timber in piles
s COVID lockdowns subsided in Thailand and the nation hesitantly stepped out of its slumber, one early June day in 2020 saw the swift, stealthy construction of a fence around a much loved building in Phrae, in the northeast reaches of the country. An ornate structure with a number of nicknames and origin stories, the Green House aka the Bombay Burmah outpost aka The Forestry Department was suddenly enclosed by a tall barrier designed to keep the public out.
While officials debated, local priests carried out a ritual next to the Bombay Burmah ruin, to apologize to the spirits of the building for its early, untimely demise. Thailand has a strong animistic faith that lives alongside its Buddhism, believing that spirits live in all things, including buildings. Much is done to keep the spirits of structures happy, even making mini houses for them to occupy. The sudden end of a revered house was marked with an apology.
The first outposts of the teak industry were developed in northwestern India, where the British pummeled through the forests throughout the 1800s. Once India’s forests were exhausted, the Brits pushed into Burma where they deposed the King and colonized the country, boosting their lucrative timber industry. Next, encroaching further westward, they reached Northern Siam in the 1880s, with the Siamese king permitting the Brits to monitor the teak trade.
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