Thomas Parr Monument, Sumatra, Indonesia
3.0 (39 reviews) Spent Ranking #16 in Bengkulu Province Monuments & Statues
Thomas Paar historical Monument
The Monument are English Heritage Monument at Bengkulu- from the Colonial Century... Locate at Center of Old Bengkulu sub region, Renovate by support from UK Kingdom 10 years ago, Thomas Paar are the Favorite of English Solder who die at Bengkulu. Just aroud 5 minute from Fort Malborough ... Free of Charge and some time using as the locate where the youg peoplses take and street sport . Visitor would be park the bike of Vihicle around the monument and take and Historical photo. The Main Problem..... Not to Clean and no Routine Maintenance to keep this are suitable every time and every single visiotr.
Address
Ahmad Yani street , Bengkulu, Indonesia.
Current local date and time now
Sunday, May 12, 2024, 9:55
User Ratings
3.0 based on (39 reviews)
Reviews
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4dentsyahrudin 5:00 PM Jan 22, 2017
A Land Mark.
Near to Fort Marlborough, more or less 100 meter to south> If you stay at central Bengkulu ( Jl Suprapto Simpang Lima ), catch yellow color mini bus - public transportation - which goes and by to and from or take a walk 2- 3 km to the north or Ahmad Yani street ( portable GPS will help a lot ) Serounding with old chinese shop house at east edge and Baru Koto Market at north west . The building is around 5 meter height and 3 meter for diameter. Who is Thomas Parr exactly? A British government who buys hot chili at Bengkulu to export to Europe in 18 century. With big 4 circular cement pole and a doom at top it looks like a european architecture. .
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3Raymond W 5:00 PM Jan 15, 2012
Thomas Parr, Murdered Resident
Bencoolen was hardly the most noteworthy of Britain's colonies. All it ever produced was a bit of pepper and graveyards full of malaria victims. They eventually traded it for the Malaysian port of Melaka, and it seems that the Dutch, in gaining Bencoolen (now Bengkulu) got the raw end of the deal. It is no exaggeration to say that Sumatra's malaria-ridden West Coast was a cemetery for young colonials and pretty much all that remains of this failed colony are a couple of forts and hundreds of British graves. The most famous of these British mausoleums is the Thomas Parr Monument, dating back to the early nineteenth century. Thomas Parr was the resident, the highest ranking Brit in the colony, but not even he was safe and the 'natives' murdered him in 1807. His Greek-inspired mausoleum stands in the heart of old Bengkulu, a reminder of Britian's disastrous attempts at a Sumatran colonial empire.
