 Most viewed - Belgium 1970s |
Michael and dad fix the VW exhaust.. it's only one year old!!998 viewsMerelbeke 1977
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Sinterklaas comes to Merelbeke991 views
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Foundations of 31 Verlorenbroodstraat in 1974987 viewsFrom the roof of Number 29
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Michael the giant leans on a neighbour's house in Verlorenbroodstraat987 views
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Wembley English pub in Ghent984 viewsAfplakker van de Wembley "English pub" in Gent.
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Aunty Cathy, Maureen and Cousin Debbie973 views
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Sinterklaas comes to Merelbeke960 views
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Eric and Maureen Hayles Wilsonplein Gent 1975950 views
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Wilsonplein, Ghent948 viewsDad stayed in the Park Hotel when he first arrived in Belgium, in the centre of Ghent.
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Boer en ploegpaard1 - Merelbeke farmer 1975940 views
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Ghent 1979929 views
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De Kouter Gent 1975926 views
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Sky in Verlorenbroodstraat Merelbeke, 1970s923 views
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Ducks in our garden at Verlorenbroodstraat 29919 views
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With the Meersschaut family916 viewsIn Verlorenbroodstraat, Merelbeke
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Sint Niklaas comes to Merelbeke908 viewsOne of the Criel brothers from Verlorenbroodstraat
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Michael and Wilfried895 views
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Children from Verlorenbroodstraat playing in the garden.890 views1975
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Christmas fun in Verlorenbroodstraat888 viewsJonathan Hayles, ElsWillems
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Eric Hayles and sons 1975888 views
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On the roof885 viewsJonathan, Andrew and Michael on the roof of our 1970s modernist Belgian house.
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Boerderij in Merelbeke880 views
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Charles Davies and Joe Davies on BBC One's The One Show878 viewsFor about 30 years, I'd be wanting to get back in touch with the Davies's, the family we'd known in Belgium.
I'd made a number of searches on the internet over the years, but not managed to find them.
Then on April 22nd 2014, the "One Show" on BBC1 was on. We had the sound down, and only left it because Rick Wakeham was going to be on, who played the wonderful keyboard arrangement on the Cat Stevens version of Morning Has Broken.
Not really paying attention, I suddenly saw a man on the screen who looked just like "Mr Davies" from Belgium. I'd only be saying to dad a few days earlier that it would be nice if one day we managed to make contact with the Davies's
"Dad" I said, "that looks just like Mr Davies". By then, the picture had gone, and some middle aged bloke with a beard and grey hair was talking and soon he was gone too.
I said to dad I was pretty sure it WAS Mr Davies.
Here's the report. And it was! And the middle aged bloke was Joseph, last seen as a teenager!
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Michael and dad fix the VW exhaust.. it's only one year old!!876 viewsMerelbeke 1977
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Josh on roof of Verlorenbroodstraat 29874 viewsYou can see Marcel Meersschaut's "boxen" in the background.
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Josh, Michael and dad, Eric, on the roof872 views
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Boerderij in Merelbeke868 views
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GITO Merelbeke leaflet from 1975 2/4865 viewsGITO Merelbeke flyer van 1975
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Our Aunty Cathy with Ronny Meersschaut864 views
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Wilsonplein from the Park Hotel, 1974856 views
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Friends and neighbours playing snooker854 views
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Hilda Meersschaut853 views
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De Kouter Gent 1975853 views
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Maestro Marcel Meersschaut, with Josh on piano and Patrick Meersschaut watching.852 views
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Christmas fun in Verlorenbroodstraat849 viewsParty games, Maureen Hayles, Els Willems and Jonathan (Josh) Hayles
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Winter in Verlorenbroodstraat844 viewsA view across the road from our front garden.
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Belgian trams on Wilsonsplein840 viewsA view from the Park Hotel in 1974.
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Austin 1800 in the drive of our house837 viewsDad's car, built in 1965. He bought it circa 1970.
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Our relatives and the neighbours of the Meersschauts in Meerstraat (nu Weidestraat)835 views
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Visitors to Number 31826 views
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Noel, Joseph and Godfrey Davies823 views
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Sinterklaas comes to Merelbeke811 views
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Noel, Joseph and Godfrey Davies811 views
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Visitors to Number 31798 views
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Andrew on the roof797 views
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Friends and neighbours playing snooker796 views
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Sinterklaas comes to Merelbeke795 views
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Visitors to Number 31795 views
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Carnival in Ghent 1974788 views
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View from Park Hotel, Wilsonsplein, 1974784 views
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Sinterklaas comes to Merelbeke784 views
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Wilsonplein, Ghent778 viewsDad stayed in the Park Hotel when he first arrived in Belgium, in the centre of Ghent.
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A view of nurseries from a back bedroom of Verlorenbroodstraat 29775 viewsBy the late 1990s this scene looked very different, with a new housing estate standing where the nurseries were.
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Park Hotel bill from 1974775 viewsEric Hayles stayed at the Park Hotel, Wilsonplein, Gent, when he first arrived in Belgium to work for Volvo Europa in Destelbergen. Later his office moved to the company's massive site at Oostakker.
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Ghent by Eric Hayles773 viewsEarly 1980s
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Ringvaart Merelbeke769 views
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Volvo colleague Dennis Kinchen in Lourdes768 viewsDad and Dennis visited Lourdes, near Oostakker, in 1974 just to see why everyone else was heading there.
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Stephen Hayles and Eric Hayles in Ghent768 viewsThe centre of Ghent / Gent in 1974.
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British Week in Gent, 1974... British "coppers" join the parade.768 views
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A great evening with our relatives from England and Wilfried and Lydiane De Moor767 views
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