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Lignières: Then and Now |
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Click image for contemporary view.
The historical photograph is courtesy of M. Louis Chiffelle of Lignières, who kindly contributed images of his post card collection to the archives of the Fondation de l'Hôtel de Commune de Lignières.
by John Walker May, 2007 |
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From our last stop in front of the Hôtel de Commune, we walk to the right, turn onto the Rue des Eussinges which runs along its southwest face, and then proceed up the Rue de Fin de Forel. Turning around and looking back from a location just in front of the present-day post office, we see the Hôtel de Commune at the right and, to the left, with current address Rue des Eussinges 2 (RACN 010-6456-00066), a building which was, when this post card was published in 1939, a grocery and textile shop. The fountain in the foreground (RACN 010-6456-00217) bears the date 1894.
If you look at the rightmost corner of the Hôtel de Commune in the “then” picture, below the bell tower, you can see the enseigne with its sunny face shining over the street. At the time the “now” picture was taken, it was in an artist's workshop in the final stages of restoration, and will return to its place of honour in the heart of Lignières in the spring of 2007.
While the wires seen running to this building in the “then” picture have long since been buried, traces of the insulators to which they once attached remain today.