Old postcards to tell the story of the region

During a weekend, the Friends of the Beach presented an exhibition of old postcards devoted to the coast at the municipal hall of Vierville-sur-Mer. The room offered a panorama of Omaha Beach, but visitors mainly came to discover the views of the past.

The exhibition was the result of a long work of research and presentation. The maps were grouped by municipality, on panels organized around fragments of IGN maps. They made it possible to follow a century of evolution of places and lifestyles.

These images retraced in particular the history of the beaches upset by the events of 1944. Some places had completely disappeared in the war; silhouettes and faces also awakened memories, sometimes painful. The journalist stressed, however, that the pleasure of discovery took precedent over nostalgia.

Archive image: https://vierville.cordelle.eu/Photos2008/1998-ExpoCartesPostales.jpg