Post cards from Karel

An ‘Auto’biography of History

This card, with a lovely collection of 50 and 60’s cars in front of the Province Court, is from the Market Place in Bruges, Belgium. There is a MG TD in the front and some of my Dutch MG friends even think that they can spot an MGA on the right, behind the two walking people and in front of the bus.

Although many of the building on the square are very old, this one is quite new. The original building on this spot dated back to 1294 but was demolished in 1787 and replaced by a new, neoclassicist, building to house the government and court of the Province of West Flanders. However, it burned down in 1878. It took nine more years before a replacement building, in neogothic style this time, was started. Some parts weren’t finished until 1920.

~~ Reinout Vogt