Template:Did you know nominations/British Club (Bangkok)

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 01:25, 29 August 2021 (UTC)

British Club (Bangkok)

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The British Club Bangkok

... that Bangkok's British Club (1912 postcard pictured) was founded following a dispute among members of the main Westerners' social club at the time? Source: "History does not record what the ‘dispute’ was, that led to a serious falling out amongst its members only that on 24th April 1903 senior members of the United Club, who were British businessmen and diplomatic civil servants, formed the most British of entities, “a committee”, to establish a British Club in Bangkok, in the style enjoyed by their peers in the British Empire throughout the world."[1]
- ALT1:... that following World War II, members of Bangkok's British Club were able to reclaim the building (1912 postcard pictured) thanks to a mortgage that helped preserve its land deeds? Source: "After the end of the Second World War, there was some local confusion over the ownership of the premises, which was initially given to the YMCA, fortunately the Club was lucky in that its two land deeds (‘chanotes’) were mortgaged to the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank and thus survived the war." (same source)

Reviewed: Bob Wells (vandweller)

Created by Paul_012 (talk). Self-nominated at 17:38, 4 August 2021 (UTC).

@Paul 012: New and long enough, a copyvio check finds 12% which is OK but not great (could be improved by tweaking the wording), and well referenced. I think ALT1 is more interesting than the main hook, but both look OK. A possible ALT3 might be something around it being an anciement monument, if you're interested? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:11, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks for the review. "Ancient monument" might seem interesting at first glance, but it's really just the official Thai term for "listed building", which number in the thousands. Playing on the unusualness of the term could work for DYK purposes, but I'd prefer not to unless there's no better option. --Paul_012 (talk) 19:21, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
  - OK, let's leave it with ALT1 as preferred, or the original hook could be used if the posting admin prefers. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:29, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

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