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Michael and dad fix the VW exhaust.. it's only one year old!!874 viewsMerelbeke 197755555
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Michael and dad fix the VW exhaust.. it's only one year old!!868 viewsMerelbeke 197700000
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Michael and dad fix the VW exhaust.. it's only one year old!!749 viewsMerelbeke 197700000
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Photo developers A Bracke in Merelbeke994 viewsWhen we lived in Merelbeke in the 1970s, a spooky old derelict building stood on the corner of Hundelgemsesteenweg and Van Goethemstraat, next to the potato yard. Then one day, a couple opened a smart little photo shop in part of it. They were related to the Piens family who lived next door to us in Verlorenbrooadstraat.

The finished photos came back in an envelope with a drawing of the building. The entrance was to the right, just behind the tree in the picture.
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Our Merelbeke home starts arriving back in England.....957 views.... on the roof of dad's VW Transporter minibus.55555
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Ringvaart Merelbeke666 views00000
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Ringvaart Merelbeke 19751022 views33333
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Ringvaart Merelbeke 19751009 views55555
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Merelbeke centruun - Gemeentehuis 19741092 views33333
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Merelbeke centruum 19741077 views55555
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Boer en ploegpaard1 - Merelbeke farmer 1975833 views00000
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Boer en ploegpaard 2 - Merelbeke farmer 19751075 viewsPlus zoon?55555
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Boerderij in Merelbeke745 views00000
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Boerderij in Merelbeke736 views00000
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1975 not sure where but not far from Merelbeke1179 views55555
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Sky in Verlorenbroodstraat Merelbeke, 1970s768 views00000
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Michael, near Merelbeke 1975957 views00000
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Ducks in our garden at Verlorenbroodstraat 29771 views00000
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Foundations of 31 Verlorenbrooadstraat1136 viewsWilfried de Moor was building a villa. Josh spent many happy days helping out.55555
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Foundations of 31 Verlorenbroodstraat in 1974824 viewsFrom the roof of Number 2900000
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Foundations of Velorenbroodstraat 31, 19741247 viewsWilfried De Moor, his brother and nephew working on the foundations of Wilfried's villa.55555
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Foundations of Number 314040 views00000
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Josh Verlorenbroodstraat Merelbeke 1975972 views00000
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Jonathan, Andrew Michael at Verlorenbroodstraat 29960 views00000
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The end of Verlorenbroodstraat1231 viewsOur short-cut to the Hundelgemsesteenweg.55555
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Verlorenbroodstraat, at the end of the road.1011 views55555
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De Schelde at the end of Verlorenbroodstraat 1970s988 views55555
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View from the roof994 viewsShowing the rear of the Meersschaut's house and one of the garages, or "boxen" that Marcel Meersschaut rented out.55555
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Josh on roof of Verlorenbroodstraat 29765 viewsYou can see Marcel Meersschaut's "boxen" in the background.00000
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Andrew on the roof...983 viewsIn the background, the garage door of the Meerschaut's house. Marcel Meerschaut was a "Bobinage van motoren". 55555
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A view of nurseries from a back bedroom of Verlorenbroodstraat 29651 viewsBy the late 1990s this scene looked very different, with a new housing estate standing where the nurseries were.00000
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Austin 1800 in the drive of our house726 viewsDad's car, built in 1965. He bought it circa 1970.00000
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Verlorenbroodstraat 29993 viewsFrom the rear. In the foreground, a cement mixer on the building site of 31, Verlorenbroodstraat where Wilfried de Moor was building a villa.55555
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Josh, Michael and dad, Eric, on the roof754 views00000
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Andrew on the roof652 views00000
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On the roof761 viewsJonathan, Andrew and Michael on the roof of our 1970s modernist Belgian house.00000
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On the roof 1024 viewsJonathan and his dad, Eric.55555
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Winter in Verlorenbroodstraat712 viewsA view across the road from our front garden.00000
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Sinterklaas comes to Merelbeke687 views00000
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Sinterklaas comes to Merelbeke675 views00000
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Sinterklaas comes to Merelbeke1013 views55555
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Sinterklaas comes to Merelbeke668 views00000
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Sinterklaas comes to Merelbeke978 views55555
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Sinterklaas comes to Merelbeke815 views00000
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Sinterklaas comes to Merelbeke847 views00000
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Sint Niklaas comes to Merelbeke785 viewsOne of the Criel brothers from Verlorenbroodstraat00000
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Dad leaves for work in his brand new Volkswagen Transporter minibus1208 views55555
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Michael the giant leans on a neighbour's house in Verlorenbroodstraat853 views00000
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Don Pepe Merelbeke 1977 from a post card1338 views2 comments55555
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Don Pepe Merelbeke 1977 by night, by Jonathan Hayles1041 viewsTaken on an Agfa box camera resting on the ground with an exposure of about one minute.55555
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Michael Hayles, Ronny Meersschaut, Hedwig Piens leave for the GITO5006 viewsLeaving for school. Josh is also there, behind Michael. Sadly he can't be seen.00000
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The only way to repair a VW... get on your knees and pray!3037 viewsDad and Michael repair the heat exchangers already on our new Volkswagen Transporter minibus55555
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A view of the nurseries seen from Verlorenbroodstraat799 views00000
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Michael looking ghostly on the roof of Verlorenbroodstraat 291581 viewsTaken with an Agfa box camera, two exposures.55555
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Josh looking ghostly on the roof of Verlorenbroodstraat 292227 viewsTaken with an Agfa Box camera, two exposures.1 comments55555
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GITO Merelbeke, 4e Elektriciteit 1977-781073 views4e elektriciteit, GITO, Merelbeke, schooljaar 1977-78. Van links naar rechts:
1e rij:M. Mortier (leeraar wiskunde), Rudy de Sutter, Bernard Ramue, Ronny Meersschaut (mijn makker v.d. Verlorenbroodstraat), Marnix de Bruyker, Jonathan Hayles, Pieter Rijkbosch, Pieter Jacob, Luc Eekhout.

2e rij: Christian Bekaert, Hans Verstichel, Christian Piens, Geert van Assche, Johan Piens, Luc van der Straeten, Wim de Schrijver.

3e rij: Ronny van Wesemael, Geert van Lancker, Dirk Trossaert, Patrick van Hecke, Yvan Courtijn, Ronny Henrickx.

Twee studenten waren afwezig: Pierre de Cooman en Jan (van?) Goedertier. Ik ben niet zeker of de bovenstaande namen allemaal juist geschreven zijn.

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