Conor Dodd Posted 18 May , 2003 Share Posted 18 May , 2003 Any ideas ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conor Dodd Posted 18 May , 2003 Author Share Posted 18 May , 2003 This is a bit bigger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Mackenzie Posted 18 May , 2003 Share Posted 18 May , 2003 Conor . I don't have a detailed map of Ieper but 'porte du cloitre' is 'convent door'. From the map I do have, the convent appears to be in what is now Stationsstraat. I am sure someone can confirm/correct as appropriate. Neil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conor Dodd Posted 18 May , 2003 Author Share Posted 18 May , 2003 Thanks for that Neil, there was a group of Irish Nuns in Ypres for a long time up to the war it might be theirs or another. Conor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bert Heyvaert Posted 18 May , 2003 Share Posted 18 May , 2003 Your image is taken from the Vandepeerenboomplein. The cathedral is just to the right of the image, St. George's memorial church is opposite the buildings shown on the picture regards, Bert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Reed Posted 18 May , 2003 Share Posted 18 May , 2003 Bert is spot on - the archway in the photo was rebuilt after WW1 exactly the same. You will see it, no doubt, on your next visit to Ypres. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conor Dodd Posted 18 May , 2003 Author Share Posted 18 May , 2003 Bert and Paul, Cheers for the info I bought the card today with a few others of Ypres just wasn't too sure where it was thanks for the information Conor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CROONAERT Posted 19 May , 2003 Share Posted 19 May , 2003 Conor. You may find these of some interest. Same place,different view. 1. Pre-War Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CROONAERT Posted 19 May , 2003 Share Posted 19 May , 2003 ...immediately post-war (1919)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CROONAERT Posted 19 May , 2003 Share Posted 19 May , 2003 ...and present day. Dave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john w. Posted 19 May , 2003 Share Posted 19 May , 2003 Can I say that they introduction iof the photos to the forum really does help... the images show how an enquiry can be dealt with in a way that was not possible before... John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Mackenzie Posted 19 May , 2003 Share Posted 19 May , 2003 But its back to school for me!! I think 'porte du cloitre' usually means 'cloister door' but I jumped to conclusions as usual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bert Heyvaert Posted 19 May , 2003 Share Posted 19 May , 2003 I'm not really sure here. 'porte du cloitre' definitly means 'door to the monastery'. I think that the part of the cathedral which is still in ruïns, you reach it just after you walk through the 'porte du cloistre', jused to be a small monastery or part of it. Again, I am NOT sure. Jacky or Aurel will probably be able to confirm this. Conor, as for the Irish nuns: There were quite a lot of them in pre-war Ypres. I believe the last ones were evacuated in 1915, together with the last inhabitants of the town. Only one of them came back in 1927. She left Ypres only a year later due to bad health and died in 1928 in a hospital near Erps-Kwerps ( yes, there are Flemish villages with very strange names!). Bert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conor Dodd Posted 23 May , 2003 Author Share Posted 23 May , 2003 Many thanks for all the replies the photos made it alot easier to see where it was Dave Bert I don't know if I told you but a book was done in the 20's about the Irish Nuns at Ypres from the start until the war there is only photos of the nuns themselves in the book none of Ypres but from ficking through it it goes into some good detail about the bombardment of Ypres. Conor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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