Grexpo and the Friends of the Beach exhibit 750 old postcards

Grexpo and the Friends of the Beach presented together, on a Saturday and a Sunday in the entertainment room, about 750 old postcards from private collections. The exhibition traced the life of the communes between Trévières, Grandcamp-Maisy and Vierville, most of which were represented.

The maps showed both landscapes and scenes from daily life until the 1950s and events that became, at the time, postcard subjects. The article cites in particular a torpedo stranded in Vierville in 1915, an English ship in 1917 and an aircraft in 1935.

Jean-Michel Cattelain, president of Grexpo, presented this meeting around the postcard as a way to discover the evolution of the sector and to find a past disrupted by war. The newspaper announced a new presentation of the exhibition the following weekend, in the Vierville festival hall.

Archive image: https://vierville.cordelle.eu/PhDoc10/1999aout10-expoCP.jpg