Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer

The life of the village in the past

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Aerial view of the village (around 1960)

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The town hall, the elections

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(details) Former town hall and school

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(details) Elections, the evening of May 12, 1912

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(details)Ms. Vincent, candidate for the 1912 elections on the main list. She was not elected, besides, it was illegal.

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Vote in 1912

The Cafes

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(details) The terrace of Café Brunet at Hameau des Moulins.

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(details) the old café, bourg St Laurent

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(details) The washhouse

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(details) At the Monument to the Dead, May 8, 2001. In the center, Raymond Mouquet, mayor, on the right, Bernard Porée, flag bearer of the Veterans.

The monument dates from 1922, after the Great War.

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(details) Inauguration of the monument on August 6, 1922

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(details)Wedding in 1960, the bell tower was rebuilt but the bell is still on a frame on the ground

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details) Costume party organized around 1942 to support prisoner families. The man in top form is Désiré Lemière, (from the hamlet of Fosses-Taillis, in Vierville, but on the border of St-Laurent), who no one knew was part of a resistance network informing the Allies. He will be shot in Caen by the Germans on June 6, 1944, his body was never found

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details) Children dressed as Normans. Another party in favor of prisoners, in the courtyard of the Priory.

The "barracks", on the "countryside" just after the war around 1960, former customs barracks, with 3 small dwellings. It has become a second home

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(details)A horse-drawn carriage

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(details)Dance in St Laurent

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(details)La Poste, built between the 2 wars

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(details)Driving lesson

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(details) The cyclist Louvet, from St Laurent

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(details) Thealambic of the Calvados boiler

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(details) The Renard masonry, opposite the station

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(details) the road leading to the sea, before the war of 14-18

Document from Yves Cordelle’s archives: St-Laurent-Village (details)Ancel coffee shop, 1950

With a gas pump (arm...)

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(details) The arbors of the downtown café in St Laurent

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(details) a tourist postcard

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(details) Ferme de la Sapinière

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(details) The Porée family 1924, in front of their house on rue du Val.

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(details) Milk carrier, in front of a small farmhouse below the St-Hubert villa, at the entrance to the hamlet of Moulins

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(details)Property Chevron (where Jérôme Garcin lived)

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1960

Small farms

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(details)Val Street

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(details)Alexandre André Farm, rue du Val

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(details) The Demaine family, in their farm on rue Quincampoix, after the reour of André Demaine prisoner of the Germans until 1945

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(details) The Vignets farm, near the Sapinière

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(details) former Deslandes farm, rue du Val, which became a second home

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(details) Deslandes Farm

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(details) Deslandes Farm, entrance to the courtyard

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(details) the old dairy

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(details) Mrs. Deslandes returning from mass in a carriage made by her son with recycled materials.

The small narrow-gauge train - 60cm - and steam (also called tram) that went from Molay-Littry (connection of the Paris-Cherbourg line) to Grandcamp, through Trévières, Formigny, Saint-Laurent Vierville, etc.

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The map of lines, extracted from the Joanne guide, 1910

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View to the East (town center), the station, on the road to Vierville. Built on a formalized model, ientique on the entire line, it subsists, arranged in a cottage.

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West-west view, station and train

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(details) Arrival of vacationers

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View towards Vierville, the station is on the left, behind the wind turbine.

The schedules of the little train

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(details) The central crossroads with the small train that went from Molay-Littry to Grancamp

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(details) In 1866

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