Fantastic, not seen that one. Those dotted basements are very smart. The whole area seems to have been packed with drinking shacks like St Géry, with fritures to soak up the booze. That photo was taken just before they started making the area look a bit more olde world for the tourists.
One for the ages. Gibraltar's chief minister gazes into the better and more sustainable future he negotiated for its people. A 'pro-European' from the UK, which has ever been a separate jurisdiction, whines about losing rights to an imaginary 91 day holiday which wasn't allowed anyway.
Algeciras removes the baffling neo-art nouveau kiosk that has hindered movement in the town hall foyer since 1997. A solo creation, it was commissioned at great expense from a French carpenter living in Tarifa. "Some believe he was called Marcel". www.europasur.es/algeciras/ki...
The UK is sending a junior minister to sign the Gibraltar treaty in Brussels tomorrow. Probably for the best, given the current foreign secretary's disdain for Schengen.
Schaerbeek. Le petit patrimoine non protégé / Het niet-gevrijwaard klein erfgoed
The Westminster, Wellington, Ascot, Canterbury and Oxford apartments. Round the corner are Le Cluny and Le Beaufort.
Fantasy factory. Production still from Les 3 Mousquetaires from 1913, the first feature screened at the Pathé Palace leisure complex after its conversion from a department store.
"Our" borders, huh? Gibraltar is not part of the UK, UK citizens have always had to show their passports and Gibraltarians do not exist in this depiction of the place as a holiday landing-spot.
The border fence at Gibraltar was erected in 1908 by the British administrators of the colony. Source: all of them. The Gibraltar government, for example.
By the late 1970s, with central Brussels in decay and overrun by cars, the Palace Cinema's historic auditorium became customer parking for a white-goods showroom. What happened next?
1896 house in Brussels NE. Quite surprised they got a permit for this overhang.
Swivelling round 90⁰ for a view to the west over the city in 1685. Some kind of rave underway.
The ducal palace in Brussels (bits of it survive underground). This is now the view south from the park across place Royale to the Palais de Justice.
More rueful reminiscences and rear-view mirror analysis. The BBC needs to explore its archives and its own role in creating hostility and unhappiness over the 10 years *before* the vote. These programmes are worthless because one of the principal actors is absent.
LBC is discussing this piece that suggests success in football is an opportunity to celebrate empire.
Lost guinguettes of Brussels for an escape in fine weather: the Chien Vert/Groene Hond just outside the walls in Molenbeek.
Tf that's over. I don't want another conflicted match like that and there won't be one.
It's for sale. Architect not mentioned but if there was any interest in the design, it wouldn't have been altered that way. www.immoweb.be/en/ad/duplex...
Entering Brussels via Porte de Schaerbeek with the cathedral in the distance. Paul Vitzthumb, 1823. This area is now the Finance Tower.
After all this time, it's still two downtowns in London: Covent Garden and Cheapside.