Lille Collection (page 2)

La Grande Place, Lille, France. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

The Paris Gate, Lille, France. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Rue de Lille Lille street. Postcard shows a street in Lille, France, with a ruined cathedral and other buildings. Date between 1914 and 1918

Lille, France - The Liberation of the city (2 / 2)
Lille, France - After the liberation of the city at the end of the First World War. A Factory missing all of its machinery - carried off by the invading German army to use for their own ends

France, Lille - The arrival of English Troops - World War One. Date: 1918

Lille, France - The Liberation of the city (1 / 2)
Lille, France - The Liberation of the city at the end of the First World War. Ruins of the Station Quarter. Date: 1918

The Theatre, Lille, France - The Salle de Spectacle ! Date: 1910s

Lille, France - Ancient Marketplace and New Belfry
Lille, France - The Old Exchange (17th century Chamber of Commerce) and New Belfry (designed by architect Mary Louis Cobbler - work on the tower was interupted by the First World War). Date: 1930s

Siege of Lille 1667
SIEGE OF LILLE The French army approaches the town across terrain which is more like a Rubens landscape than a battlefield Date: August 1667

Travels of General Baker
Crowds gather outside the hotel in Lille where General Baker is staying

France, Lille - Gate of the Citadel
The highly ornate interior Gate of the Citadel at Lille, France, built c.1668. The citadel was part of a double line of fortified towns of Gravelines, Dunkirk and Maubeuge-Rocroi

Eugenie at Lille
The Empress Eugenie visits Lille, where she meets the leading ladies of the district at the Prefecture

Baudouin Comte Flandres
BAUDOUIN V de Lille, comte de FLANDRES, known as Le Debonn- -aire, married Adele daughter of Robert Capet, king of France, and fathered Matilda wife of William the Conqueror

Patriotic Girls
At Lille, France, three patriotic French girls dress in blue, white, and red to demonstrate their national pride before the German occupying forces

Wwi / Lille Cafe Scene
German soldiers and airmen pose for a photograph outside a Lille (?) cafe. The sign reads German Beer Restaurant. Heil the Kaiser and the Reich

Wwi / British Enter Lille
The arrival of British troops in a suburb of Lille is greeted by jubilation from the crowd

Wwi / Occupied Lille
In occupied Lille, the French citizens refuse to sign a German peace petition

Lille / Canal / Gardens
Unloading a barge on the canal at Lille, in northern France, beside the Jardin Botanique

Lille Gate at Ypres
14th century ramparts and Lille Gate through which British troops entered during the defence of Ypres

General Birdwood
General Sir William Riddell, 1st Baron Birdwood, with Charles Delesalle and Monseigneur Charost, mayor and bishop of Lille, a French town delivered from the Germans

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