Frédéric Moreau

Nick Abbot is being made to discuss the EU with an automated Tufton bullshit dispenser. It's been TEN years FFS. The actual anniversary is going to be a festival of national denial.

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Yes, the piano place I remember

I see what you mean and about the vibe. These are on my list.

L.M. De Wit (or Dewit). I couldn't find out much about him when I looked.

Long before Howard, a garden city for workers in Schaerbeek. 1869.

A Dutch family in the fabrics trade built this 1930 mansion in Schaerbeek. Pacifists and anti-fascists, they sheltered refugees from Germany & Spain. Then resistants during WW2. The father, Alex Eekman, was arrested in 1942 and murdered at the Mauthausen camp.

Rooftop: six tiny rooms for maids; and a terrace with pergola where the view then stretched out of Brussels into Flanders.

Art Deco beauty from 1937, Schaerbeek.

Theodore Roosevelt Street, Schaerbeek. That makes Thomas Jefferson the only one of the Rushmore lads without a street in Brussels. Serves him right for swanning about in Paris.

Alight at Schaerbeek for cherries and donkeys.

1924 monument in place Jamblinne de Meux, Schaerbeek to Philippe Baucq, a 35 yr old architect and resistant shot in 1915, alongside Edith Cavell and others. It was destroyed within hours of the Nazis taking control of Brussels in 1940.

Architect Henri Van Massenhove and his German partner Guillaume (Wilhelm) Löw won most of the façade prizes with houses called things like In den Boogen & In de Haalve Man. They wrote a book (in French) about their collaboration in the Flemish renaissance style, called Les Maisons Modernes

The result was that as cinemas, telephones, lifts, electricity and cars arrived in Brussels, a mainly francophone clientele was coopted into architectural cosplay based on the C16 Flemish renaissance, then in a hot war with art nouveau to define the national style. It won.

Place Colignon, Schaerbeek. Incomers acquiring plots here were forced to choose a façade for their new home from among the prize-winning entries in an 1896 public competition. These had to reflect the values of art "that the Renaissance spread among the civilized nations."

Vast 1910 mansion in Schaerbeek. On the bay, the motto in olde flemish reads ELKE VOGEL BOUWT ZYN NEST (every bird build its nest). The owner was a stockbroker called Mr Vogel (Bird).

Art-deco snake mosaic. Schaerbeek.

Next door is the 1906 Brussels depot of the Brasserie et Laiterie de Haecht, the town next door to Werchter. Their beer arrived on the same tram. This seems like a system worth reviving. Horses took care of the last mile and the stables with glass awning are still there.

Behind the depot was a line of the regional tram, which brought the beer from the brewery in Werchter, north of Leuven, where it was popular with the students. The Brussels complex included apartments to gain extra income.

The Brussels depot of the Palmboom or Jack-Op brewery in Schaerbeek from 1907-13. Long since swallowed by what became Inbev.

Bog-standard 1900 house in Schaerbeek reclad 1934 in art deco coloured ceramic.

1908 house in Schaerbeek. Replacement door but art deco with Tiffany glass.

At ground-floor level is this ceramic depiction of the old village that buildings such as this replaced.

1906 art nouveau apartment block in Schaerbeek by Gustave Strauven.

Bolsover MP explains why she'll miss McSweeney: "We voted 80% Leave... he understood that my constituents are concerned about immigration yet not racist and they have strong Labour values but they want us to have control of our borders. Morgan is one of the champions of areas like mine."

Curving row of pre-WW1 bow-windowed facades. Place des Bienfaiteurs, Schaerbeek, the vanished local bourgeoisie's sumptuous monument to its own generosity.

Houses for white-collar employees of the Pelletier paper company in Schaerbeek. Their back gardens communicated directly with the factory just in shot on the left.

Modernity and reaction. Left, 1922. Right, 1927. Square Vergote, Schaerbeek.

Roof extension, Schaerbeek.

Geolocation failed on that photo other than northern end of the commune.