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mebu Posted 4 January , 2012 Share Posted 4 January , 2012 Eddy, good pics. Post 84 in recent times Regards Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripeyman Posted 4 January , 2012 Share Posted 4 January , 2012 Mr Cnock, Do you know where the road junction is of post 86 ? By the shadow we are looking west. Super post cards, thanks for posting them, they are really interesting to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
17107BM Posted 4 January , 2012 Share Posted 4 January , 2012 Cnock. Very generous of you to take the time to post these up. Real gems everyone of them and a credit to you. Mebu. It's hard to believe this is the same place! Cheers all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seadog Posted 4 January , 2012 Share Posted 4 January , 2012 These are all superb photos and show the utter destruction of the buildings and landscapes in the war zone. Is there any book available in English telling the story of the return of the populations and the rebuilding of the homes etc? There must be a wealth of information out there somewhere and many more poignant photos like those posted by Aurel (See link). We hear so much about the soldiers but as far as I can see little of the effect of the war on the populations of Belgium and France. GWF Topic Norman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger H Posted 5 January , 2012 Share Posted 5 January , 2012 Is there any book available in English telling the story of the return of the populations and the rebuilding of the homes etc? Norman Norman That is a very good question. Perhaps worthy of posing in a new thread so it doesn't get lost? Roger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tipperary Posted 5 January , 2012 Share Posted 5 January , 2012 (edited) These are all superb photos and show the utter destruction of the buildings and landscapes in the war zone. Is there any book available in English telling the story of the return of the populations and the rebuilding of the homes etc? There must be a wealth of information out there somewhere and many more poignant photos like those posted by Aurel (See link). We hear so much about the soldiers but as far as I can see little of the effect of the war on the populations of Belgium and France. GWF Topic Norman Hi Norman a book i downloaded from archive.org that deals with this topic is "Out of the Ruins" by George B Ford, published in 1919.I have not a clue how to find its listing but you might have a try.Also from the same source "France the Reconstruction 1919" by Brown Brothers. john Edited 5 January , 2012 by munster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 5 January , 2012 Author Share Posted 5 January , 2012 Thanks everybody and for Staanijzer Hoek I have to look on a WWI map regards, Cnock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 5 January , 2012 Author Share Posted 5 January , 2012 for Staanijzer (between Mesen and Wijtschate) Cnock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mebu Posted 5 January , 2012 Share Posted 5 January , 2012 The Staanijzerhoek is the junction of the St Eloi-Messines road with the Oosatverne-wijtschaete road Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seadog Posted 5 January , 2012 Share Posted 5 January , 2012 Thanks for the info on the books Norman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tipperary Posted 5 January , 2012 Share Posted 5 January , 2012 http://www.archive.org/details/outofruins00fordrich http://www.archive.org/details/francereconstruc00brow http://www.archive.org/details/pastfutureofbelg00carn Norman Hope they are of interest would indeed make an interesting topic.john Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 5 January , 2012 Author Share Posted 5 January , 2012 URL=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/827/zonne1.jpg/][/url] Uploaded with ImageShack.us Zonnebeke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 5 January , 2012 Author Share Posted 5 January , 2012 URL=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/196/pass1b.jpg/][/url] Cnock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tipperary Posted 5 January , 2012 Share Posted 5 January , 2012 The broken rifle, split helmet and equipment says a lot to me re pic 99.john Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 5 January , 2012 Author Share Posted 5 January , 2012 URL=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/4/poelp1.jpg/][/url] Uploaded with ImageShack.us Poelkapelle Cnock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger H Posted 5 January , 2012 Share Posted 5 January , 2012 I know that I am repeating myself, but these postcards are just fantastic. More!! Roger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seadog Posted 5 January , 2012 Share Posted 5 January , 2012 John (Post 97) many thanks for the links. I cannot even begin to understand the appalling situation that the people returned to post 1918. A charnel house and desolated landscape with the added horror of unexploded munitions everywhere. Just the things that we take for granted such as the sewage and water systems must have been destroyed in the conflict, with Belgium suffering in particular because there was very little respite from the fighting throughout the war. The propect of starting to work the land again beggars belief. Regards Norman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seadog Posted 5 January , 2012 Share Posted 5 January , 2012 Worth remembering that when we look at the photos we are looking at where peoples homes, farms and businesses once stood and were devastated. From Out of the Ruins 1919 A few months ago I came down over the Passchendaele Ridge, looking for the town of Poelkappelle; all of the country around in every direction was a billowy sea of shell-holes and trenches, the shell-holes often so close together that one could not walk between them. I came to a crossroads where there was a great British tank half buried in the mud, and to my surprise I discovered that I was in the very center of what had been the town of Poelkappelle. Even the ruins of the houses were so churned into the soil that the land appeared in no way different from the country round about. The only living thing as far as the eye could see in that great waste was a lone man digging. He was trying to find the silver he had buried in his garden, but he said he had no idea where to begin his search ; he did not know where his garden had been ; he could not guess where his house had stood, nor, for that matter, where his street had run. Norman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mandy hall Posted 5 January , 2012 Share Posted 5 January , 2012 these postcards are just fantastic. More!! Roger I am really enjoying looking at your postcards, no 101 is especially poignant as my grandad was a driver in the RE. Mandy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roel22 Posted 5 January , 2012 Share Posted 5 January , 2012 Staanijzer Hoek now. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'd say this is the direction the camera was looking in post #89 (the road bends to the right in the distance). The shells were about where now the two wooden posts are. Roel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mebu Posted 5 January , 2012 Share Posted 5 January , 2012 Roel, I had them as being on the opposite side of the road, where the thick white Stop line is, or the broken white stone? ie looking from Houthem, not from Mesen?. Regards Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roel22 Posted 5 January , 2012 Share Posted 5 January , 2012 I had two reasons for choosing this spot. It's the only spot where the road in the distance bends to the right. Plus the road coming from the right in post #89 seems to move a little upward going to the left. As it does in the position I took. But I can be wrong ofcourse. Roel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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