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10 results for “little railway”.
Everyday life in the past
… fore the Revolution, 4 - Postal relays, 19th century 5 - The tram or "little train" of the Chemins de Fer du Calvados, 1900-1930 6 - The buses of the "SATOS" 1930-1945, 7 - The buses of the "Norman Couriers" 1945-199 0(?) 8 - L es…
Maps and landscapes
… Honorine the land seems to lend itself even better the slopes being a little further from the sea. Looking in this direction, we are struck by the natural, picturesque and grandiose beauty that is offered to the eyes: really charm…
Everyday life in the past
Working in the fields, shopping in Rue Pavée, taking the little train or returning to the beach each summer: the archives reveal Vierville through the lives of its inhabitants. Family photographs, postcards, recollections and the …
History of Vierville
… 0–1939 Villas, hotels and the little railway Sea bathing gradually transformed a farming village. The first villas appeared towards the end of the Second Empire; Boulevard de Cauvigny and the steam tramway brought new connections …
War and reconstruction
… thout the word having been pronounced. We evacuate Paris from all the little ones, we received and installed yesterday in the small hotels that you know 50 very small between 2 and 5 years old accompanied by service women and teac…
Everyday life in the past
… a Percée: Around 1930, a large Le Gallois establishment was built a little lower, between the road and the sea, where today the monument of the National Guard is located: After the destruction in 1943-44, a wooden barracks was ins…
Everyday life in the past
… sultation of companies and completion of the development work. A little history of Vierville : the first cadastre of Vierville in 1823 and the development of the beach (source: including documents by Mr. Michel Hardelay) It was in…
Everyday life in the past
… now has 2 levels.. (details) around 1910? (details) we are probably a little before 1914 (see shape of the car). It is the Piprel who own and operate this business. In 1925, they sold the business and kept the walls. (details) pro…
Everyday life in the past
… e observed visitors who, like him in the past, discovered little of the interior. His site wanted to give them ideas to start again by getting to know the region better. The address presented, perso.wanadoo.fr/lasource, brought t…
Everyday life in the past
… ville sur mer was essentially agricultural : especially grasslands, a little cereal or linear crops in the "countryside" (here, we call the strip of land about 300 meters wide, without hedges, along the cliffs), artisanal breeding…
