The fountains and the Vierville washhouse in pictures

Some distant views

(details) Around 1900, view towards the crossroads from the meadow located in the NE. From g to d we see the church behind the top of the Le Gallois building, the small house of the Colliers, the Post Office and School building, the Tourist Hotel, the East wing of the castle and the turret. The Merlin Hotel is not built.

(details) View from above the washhouse towards Pavée Street in the background, the Merlin Hotel is not yet built, but we see the Hôtel des Touristes on its west side, and the street that goes down to the washhouse on the right and the pond further on the left.

(details) view towards the crossroads from the North. We see on the left, the houses at the beginning of Pavée Street, the Le Bastard house (before its reconstruction), the Post-Ecole building, the Tourist Hôtl, the church

(details) Same point of view, but barely more recent

Around 1920

Around 1900

The House The Bastard

(details) The house Le Bastard, "Les Clématis", has its floor, above around 1920, below around 1900, at the time it was a thatched cottage, a small farm without a floor, at the time it was bought by the Le Bastard family. She had a floor built, a slate roof rebuilt and the buildings that were on the courtyard, to the south, destroyed.

In the years 35-45, it was the tobacconist

(details) The Bastard house around 1900, at the time of its purchase by the Bastard. It was then a thatched house that did not exist in 1823, but was built in 1872, according to cadastral plans.

(details) Distillation of Calvados

Near the tobacconist

(details) On the left the edge of the pond, at the bottom right the house Le Bastard with its floor

April 2007

(details) View from the pond towards the sea, at the bottom the house Le Bastard

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(details) On the left, the pond, at the bottom the house Le Bastard still thatched without floor

details around 1900, basically the house Le Bastard is still a thatched cottage