| Calais |
| The steamboat "Queen" leaving Calais, presumably for England - a postcard from 1918. |
| A 1926 postcard of the Boulevard Pasteur. |
| The Theatre and the Boulevard Gambetta. |
| Calais is a port in northern France, overlooking the Straits of Dover. For several hundred years it has been an important port because of its proximity to England, and is today heavily used by both business and pleasure traffic. I've lost count of the number of day trips - and longer - we've taken to Calais, to stock up on booze, cheese, olive oil etc - and just to enjoy the town and the atmosphere, and of course to have a decent meal !! |
| This postcard was mailed in 1919. |
| Another view of the Casino and Beach. |
| The market in front of the Town Hall. |
| A 1919 postcard of the Monument aux Enfants du Calaisis and the Boulevard Jacquard. |
| No date for this postcard of the Market in the Place d'Armes. |
| Another postcard showing the Place d'Armes. |
| The Gare Maritime. |
| Avenue de la Mer. |
| The Boulevards Pasteur and Jacquard. |
| Two more views of the Casino and the Beach. |
| The Hotel de Ville, built about 1885 - but see the postcard above for the "other" Town Hall. |
| The Theatre and Jacquard's monument. Calais owes much of its world wide renown in the lace industry to Joseph Jacquard(1752-1834), inventor of a mechanism consisting of a programmed reproduction of a perforated card which could transfer complicated designs to lace. A statue in the memory of him by the sculptor Marius Roussel, was erected in 1910. |
| Another excellent view of the Place d'Armes. |
| Another excellent view of the Casino and people on the beach. |
| Another postcard of the "Queen". |
| Postcards of the Past |
| The Rue de la Citadelle and the Belfry. |
| Le Quai de la Colonne. |
| The beach in the early years of the 20th Century - look at the Bathing Machines ! |
| The Rue Royale - a great postcard which was mailed in 1915. |
| Two old postcards of the Lighthouse. |
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