Belgian Collection (#23)

Place de la Brouckere, Brussels, Belgium, with the Hotel Continental in the middle distance, the Anspach Monument and fountain in front of it, and the Hotel Metropole on the right. Date: circa 1910

Three buildings in the Quai au Foin, Brussels, Belgium
Three buildings in the Quai au Foin, Old Brussels, Belgium, with interestingly shaped gables dating back to the 17th century

Gare du Nord railway station, Brussels, Belgium
Street scene in Brussels, Belgium, with people, traffic, an advertising kiosk, and the Gare du Nord railway station. Date: circa 1900

Old street in Brussels International Exhibition 1910
Old street in the Brussels International Exhibition of 1910. Date: 1910

Flemish woman making lace, Belgium
Flemish woman making lace outside her house, Belgium. Date: circa 1920

Cricket and Lawn Tennis Club, Brussels, Belgium
Scene at a Cricket and Lawn Tennis Club, Brussels, Belgium. Date: circa 1900

Christmas 1918 in Hospital Mess at Quex
A group of patients and staff, together with the three Powell-Cotton daughters are gathered in the Hospital Mess in the Winter Garden at Quex Park VAD Hospital pn Christmas Day 1918

B Ward, Christmas 1918, Quex Park VAD Hospital
B Ward in Gallery 1 of the Powell-Cotton Museum on Christmas Day 1918. This was the first Gallery of the Museum, built in 1896

Christmas 1918 in A Ward at Quex Park VAD Hospital
A Ward in the Drawing Room of Quex House on Christmas Day 1918. The room is highly decorated with flags, greetings, paper decorations and festive greenery

Hospital Mess, Quex Park 1917. The Winter Garden, between Quex House and the Museum buildings served as the Mess for the VAD Hospital at Quex Park

1914 VAD staff in 1917
Members of Birchington VAD staff who were the longest serving when the photograph was taken in 1917. Standing (left to right) Camille Van Dyck (Belgian, origianlly a patient)

Group on rear verandah, Quex Park
Group of patients and one nurse on the rear verandah, overlooking the gardens, Quex Park. This verandah ran along the back of the Museum buildings and was used as a sheltered outdoor space in summer

Kruispoort (City Gateway), Bruges, Belgium, dating back to the 15th century, with people on the bridge and two windmills in the distance. Date: circa 1880s

City Hall, Burg Square, Bruges, Belgium, dating back to the 15th century. Date: circa 1880s

Provincial Court building, Market Place, Bruges, Belgium, before the addition of a left wing. circa 1880s

Market Square, Bruges, Belgium, with a statue in the middle. circa 1880s

Street scene in Laurent Plaats, Ghent, Belgium, with pedestrians and buildings, including Nagel Esders, mens and childrens tailors. Date: circa 1880s

Street scene in Brussels, Belgium, with people, horse-drawn carriages, and various buildings (left to right): Hotel Cosmopolite, Hotel Royal Nord, Grand Hotel St Jean, Gare du Nord railway station

Theatre Royal and Opera House, Brussels, Belgium
Theatre Royal and Opera House, La Monnaie, Brussels, Belgium. circa 1880s

Staff & patients in C Ward of Quex Park VAD Hospital. The patients are all wearing hospital blues with the exception of one man who is a Belgian solder (holding a tray with glasses)

Captain Commandant Bogaerts, Diana & Mary Powell-Cotton
(Right to left) Diana Powell-Cotton (1908-1986), Captain Commandant Bogaerts, Belgian Army, Mary Powell-Cotton (1910-1998). In the garden at Quex

Captain Commandant Bogaerts, Belgian Army. In the garden at Quex. Major Powell-Cotton had met Bogaerts in Africa a few years previously. He visited Quex on several occasions during the War. Date: 1915

Major Powell-Cotton and friends
(Right to left) Major PHG Powell-Cotton, Captain Commandant Bogaerts, Belgian Army, Anne Bogaerts, his sister. In the garden at Quex.Major Powell-Cotton had met Bogaerts in Africa a few years

Belgian Patients & VAD Staff, C Ward, Quex Park.This ward was situated in the second of the two Museum galleries, built in the early 1900s and unfinished in 1914

Mrs Mary Holmes and a Belgian patient
Mrs Mary Holmes (Lady Superintendent) and an unknown Belgian patient standing outside the Winter Garden, Quex Park. The Quex Park VAD Hospital opened on 15 October 1914 and closed on 31 January 1919

Patients in the Mess Room, Quex Park
Belgian Patients in the Mess Room, Quex Park. The Mess Room was situated in the Winter Garden, a large conservatory situated between Quex House and the Museum buildings

Belgian Patients in the Mess Room, Quex Park. The Mess Room was situated in the Winter Garden, a large conservatory situated between Quex House and the Museum buildings

Belgian Patients & VAD Staff, B Ward, Quex Park.This ward was situated in the first gallery of the Museum, built in 1896, The Gallery housed a diorama (right hand side of photograph)

Belgian Patients & VAD Staff, A Ward, Quex Park
Belgian Patients and VAD Staff in A Ward at the Quex Park VAD Hospital. This ward was situated in the drawing room of Quex House. Fifteen beds were used in this room

Belgian Patients & VAD Staff, Quex Park. The Quex Park VAD Hospital opened on 15 October 1914 and closed on 31 January 1919. The hospital was run by Kent/178, the Birchington Detachment

VAD Ambulance & Patients, Quex Park
Voluntary Aid Detachment Ambulance & Patients, Quex Park. Major Powell-Cotton converted two of his personal cars into ambulances and was the Area Transport Officer (VAD)

Six men, including Belgian patients, Quex House. At least three are Belgian patients. One appears to be in Boy Scout uniform. Others may be Quex House staff, one may be a visiting entertainer

Nurses & Patients, Front Verandah, Quex Park. The Verandah, which was outside A Ward, offered a sheltered, south-facing outdoor space

Nurses & patients, Winter Garden, Quex Park
Nurses and patients in the Winter Garden, Quex Park. This room was used as the Hospital Mess. Nurse Fanny Watson is standing, second left

Poster advertising Schicks aperitif, showing a woman in Pierrot costume with a glass in her hand. Date: 1930

WW2 poster, Allies in the Shipyards -- the workers portrayed above are all workers in the same British shipyard. With black and white photographs, and coloured flags of Allied countries on the left

Belgian infantry at Haelen
Belgian infantry enjoying a well earned rest in the fields having been driven back the Germans at Haelen in the early weeks of the First World War in August 1914. Date: 1914

The Flight from Tirlemont, Belgians fleeing, Aug 1914
Belgian civilians fleeing from Tirlemont away from the invading Germans in August 1914. Date: 1914

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, buying a white French poodle
Illustration by Cecil Aldin -- the young Aldin in the rag and dog market at Bruges, Belgium, buying a large white French poodle. Date: 1927

The Advance into Holland, WW2
The Advance into Holland during the Second World War -- the Second Armys dash towards Nijmegen and Arnhem, and the crossing of the Belgian and Dutch water lines

Cartoon, Flemish Characters, by James Gillray. Showing a group of people entering a Belgian church on a Sunday. Date: 1793

Supplies dropped at Bastogne
American troops in the besieged Belgian town of Bastogne watch as Douglas C-47 aircraft drop supplies. Date: December 1944

Leon Jehin, Belgian conductor and composer
Leon Jehin (1853-1928), Belgian conductor, composer and violinist, primarily conductor at the Monte Carlo Opera. Date: 1925

American field artillery, 1944
An American field artillery unit dig in along a Belgian road, in position to hold ground against the German counter-offensive in the Ardennes area of Belgium which became known as the Battle of

Travelling in a pirogue, Belgian Congo, Central Africa
White men and natives travelling in a pirogue (a type of boat) in the Belgian Congo, Central Africa. Date: circa 1910

Bastogne siege lifted
Members of the US 101st Airborne Division move out of Bastogne following the lifting of the siege of the Belgian town during the Battle of the Bulge. Date: December 1944

Malvina Longfellow, 1915
American actress Malvina Longfellow(1889-1962), pictured in The Bystander in 1915 at the time of her London debut in Lady Levers play The Torches of Fate

Belgian National Day ceremony, 21st July 1856
Ceremony in the Place Saint-Joseph, Brussels on Belgian National Day, which is celebrated on 21st July each year. The festival commemorates an event on 21st July 1831 in which Leopold of Saxe-Cobourg

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