250px, "Book Club" the first headquarters of Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) on Ban Mo Road Ban Mo (, ) is the name of a street and its corresponding neighbourhood in

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's Wang Burapha Phirom Subdistrict, Phra Nakhon District. It is located just outside the old inner moat in the historic

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area. The road runs a short distance of from Si Kak Phraya Si Intersection, where it meets Charoen Krung and Fueang Nakhon roads, to meet

Chak Phet Road Chak Phet Road at front of Gurdwara Sri Guru Singh Sabha. Chak Phet Road (, ; sometimes spelled Chakkraphet or Chakphet) is a road in Wang Burapha Phirom Subdistrict, Phra Nakhon District, Bangkok, with a total length of 1,120 m (3,674 ft). I ...

in the

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area. It passes the beginning of Phahurat Road at Ban Mo Intersection. It can be considered a road with one-way

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. The area was settled during the

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Mon Mon, MON or Mon. may refer to: Places * Mon State, a subdivision of Myanmar * Mon, India, a town in Nagaland * Mon district, Nagaland * Mon, Raebareli, a village in Uttar Pradesh, India * Mon, Switzerland, a village in the Canton of Grisons * A ...

and Vietnamese settlers, whose primary trade was pottery. The area thus became known as ''Ban Mo'', meaning "pottery village". The trade later shifted to goldworking, as well as diamond jewellery. Today, the neighbourhood has become a well known centre of shops specialising in electronics and audio equipment. At present, remaining evidence of pottery is a pot sculpture on the gable of the entrance gate Ban Mo Market. Moreover, Ban Mo was also site the first headquarters of

Siam Commercial Bank Siam Commercial Bank (; ), officially the Siam Commercial Bank Public Company Limited, is the first Thai bank. It was founded on 30 January 1907 by the appointment of King Chulalongkorn (Rama V). History SCB was founded as the Book Club on ...

(SCB) in 1904 as Book Club (now, the building is adjacent to Saowabha Vocational College) before moving to

Talat Noi Talat Noi or Talad Noi (, ) is a historic neighbourhood in Bangkok. It roughly occupies the area of the subdistrict of the same name in Samphanthawong District. Located on the periphery of Bangkok's Chinatown, Talat Noi has been home to various e ...

Yaowarat Yaowarat Road (, , ; ) in Samphanthawong District is the main artery of Bangkok's Chinatown. Modern Chinatown now covers a large area around Yaowarat and Charoen Krung Road. It has been the main centre for trading by the Chinese community si ...

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soon after. Today's Siam Commercial Bank, Talat Noi Branch. And also home to the San Chao Por Ban Mo Lao Pun Tao Kong ( zh, 萬茂老本頭公古廟;

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: ''wàn mào lǎo běn tóu gōng gǔ miào''), Teochew's

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is believed to be the oldest in Bangkok established since 1816.

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