Belgian Collection (page 37)

Law Courts, City Hall and Basilica, Bruges, Belgium
View (from left to right) of the Law Courts, the City Hall and the Basilica of St Sang (Sacred Blood) (Heilig-Bloedbasillek), from across a cobblestone square in Bruges (Brugge), Belgium

View of the Quai du Rosaire, Bruges, Belgium
View of the Quai du Rosaire (Rozenhoedkaai) in Bruges (Brugge), Belgium. The medieval Belfort (belfry tower) can be seen on the left. Date: circa 1920

People on the beach at Heist, Belgium
The seaside resort of Heist (Knokke-Heist), in the West Flanders area of Belgium, with a crowd of people on the beach. Date: circa 1953

View of the Porte Sainte-Croix, Bruges, Belgium
View of the Porte Sainte-Croix (Kruispoort), one of the city gates in Bruges (Brugge), Belgium. Date: circa 1920

New Years letter with portrait of a little girl
A Belgian childs traditional New Years letter to her parents, with an oval portrait and an ornately decorated border. Date: 1921

Belgian Cognac Label
A Belgian cognac label. Date: 1888

Poster for O. de Rycker - Belgian Lithographer
Poster for the famous Brussels lithographer O. de Rycker, who excelled in the printing of subtle, luminous colours

Poster advertising the Beaches of Belgium
Poster for the Railways of Belgium highlighting the virtues of the Beaches of Belgium (Les Plages Belges)

The Belgian-Swedish royal wedding
The civil marriage of the Crown Prince Leopold of Belgium, Duke of Brabant, and Princess Astrid, daughter of Prince Carl of Sweden, and niece of the King of Sweden

Three large woven beach chairs at the seaside
Three large basketwork beach chairs on a beach in Belgium, with two people sitting inside them. They are designed to give maximum shade from the hot sun

Where shall we go -- Belgium or Holland?
Cover photograph for Thomas Cooks brochure, Where shall we go -- Belgium or Holland. A young woman stands seductively in a swimsuit

Cover design for Fiocco violin and piano duets
Cover design for a book of ten violin and piano pieces by the 18th century Belgian (Flemish) composer and violinist Joseph-Hector Fiocco (1703-1741), arranged by Arthur Bent and Norman O Neill

German coastal defences WWI
German trenches and wire on the promenade in Blankenburghe, Belgium during World War I

Belgian civilians searched WWI
Belgian civilians being subjected to a vigorous search by German soldiers on the Western Front during World War I

Belgo-German Fronter WWI
German troops crossing the Belgian German frontier into Belgium during World War I

Belgium - Brussels - Mont des Arts
The Arts Hill (Mont des Arts ) at Brussels, Belgium

Belgium - Antwerp - Working Dock Horses
Belgium - Antwerp - working horses on the dock. Here this horse team transport a set of barrels along the cobbled quayside streets

Ransart, Belgium
Hotel Communal, Ransart, Belgium - subsumed by (into) Charleroi in 1977

Horse pulling Ostend beach huts
A hello from Ostend! A beach scene from Ostend, Belgium depicting a solid young lady in striped swimsuit sat astride one of the horses used to pull the beach bathing huts in and out of the water

Belgian refugees on ship WWII
Food supplies were taken out to the Belgian ship and distributed amongst the refugees. Here a Belgian mother feeds a baby with pieces of bread broken from a loaf that she received

Belgian refugee transport WWII
Belgian refugees entering the bus that is to take them to the distributing centre during World War II in London

Belgian refugees WWII
Belgian refugees at a London station having a meal during World War II

Refugee children in London WWII
Young Belgian refugees having a meal at a London station after their arrival in England the day before during World War II

Refugee police registration WWII
Belgian refugees register with the British police on arrival in Britain during World War II

Refugee distribution centre WWII
An official interpreter at the distributing centre helps Belgian refugees fill our food ration cards during World War II

Filling in Food ration card WWII
Jenny de Graaf, a Belgian refugee arriving in London, fills out a form for a food ration card at the Fulham distributing centre during World War II

Belgian trawlerman WWII
Belgian trawlerman fishing during World War II

Henley Regatta Winners from Belgium
The winners of the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta, from the Royal Club & Royal Sport Nautique Club of Ghent, Belgium. This is the 8-man crew with cox (seated in cap) and trainer

Fishing boat returning to port - Ostend, Belgium

Ostend - Belgium
Souvenir postcard from Ostend, Belgium

British planes WWII
British planes carrying Airborne troops for the landing in Holland during World War II, pass over the Belgian flag, symbol of the liberation of the Belgian people

Belgian refugees in London are fitted with gas masks at Fulham Borough Council during World War II

Belgium - Port of Ostende
Port of Ostende, Belgium. The mailship ferry departs the harbour as young boys fish off the pier, while others just lean on the railings watching the ships disappear into the North Sea

World War I
A British soldier looks through a periscope from behind a bunker on the Belgian coast on the Western Front in Belgium during World War I in 1917

The Defence of Liege
Belgian forces defend the city of Liege from the German advance during the early days of the war. The German plan to neutralise the twelve modern forts that surrounded the city within two days was

Belgium - Senior Belgian Railway Official & daughter standing in front of his house which boast the most elegant and exotic net curtains one is likely to witness in ones lifetime

Wartime Beds at Earls Court, West London
A First World War refugee camp for Belgian refugees at Earls Court. Around one thousand beds in the Queens Palace were provided by the Metropolitan Asylums Board in 1914

Gerard Leman / Stamp
GERARD MATHIEU LEMAN (1851 - 1920) Belgian general and Governor of Liege

Fetis, Francois Joseph 1784 - 1871
Francois Joseph Fetis. Belgian musicologist, musician, composer, critic and teacher. Date: 1784 - 1871

Elizabeth of Bavaria / Stamp
ELISABETH OF BAVARIA Wife of Albert I, King of Belgium

Albert I / Stamp
ALBERT I King of Belgium (1909-34)

Marie Jose of Belgium / Stamp
MARIA JOSE OF BELGIUM Wife of Umberto of Savoy, Prince of Piedmont, and daughter of Albert of Belgium

Mayor of Brussels / Stamp
ADOLPHE EUGENE JEAN HENRI MAX (1869 - 1939) Belgian liberal politician and Mayor of Brussels from 1909 until his death

Belgian Congo - Market at Kabinda
A native Central African market at Kabinda, Congo

Laeken, Belgium
The Japanese House at the foot of the Pagoda at Laeken, Belgium (a residential suburb in north-west Brussels). The buildings were commissioned by King Leopold II

Vauxhall Bridge Road, Pimlico, London - outside Parnells arcade. The Victory March and the Belgian Band - 19th July 1919

Philippines - Building a Church
The Van Scheut Mission building a Christian Church in the Philippines. The Van Scheut Mission was closely linked to the prominent Belgian priest Frank Verbiest

Advertising Card for rug importer
Advertising card for a Belgian Turkish rug importer, showing the owner of the company, Leonhard Tietz, negotiating the price of a rug. He had an office in Rassim Pacha Han in Istanbul

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