| Lille, France |
| Lille is a city in northern France in the Nord department, and is the capital of the Nord-Pas de Calais region. It lies on the River Deule, near the border with Belgium. Its population in 2006 was 226,000. The city was badly damaged during World War 1 and was occupied by the Germans in World War 2. |
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| An early 20th Century postcard of the railway station......... (Z) |
| ........the station a few years later. (Z) |
| Rue Esquermoise. (Z) |
| The Palais de la Faculte and Pasteur's statue. |
| Grand' Place on "Exchange Day" (Jour de Bourse). |
| A third view of the railway station. |
| Grande Place. (Z) |
| The Post Office. |
| Another postcard of Grand' Place - not a very good quality image I'm afraid. |
| L'Ecole des Arts et Metiers. |
| Le Palais de Justice. |
| L'Hotel de Ville. (Z) |
| Place de la Republique. |
| Square du Reduit. (Z) |
| Rue Faidherbe after the WW1 German bombardment. |
| Monument Pasteur. |
| Lille Station during the German Occupation - note the "Nordbahnhof" sign. |
| La Bourse. |
| Place de la Gare et Rue Faidherbe. |
| Le Pont Napoleon. |
| Did You Know.......that during the German occupation of World War 1 there was a munitions depot called the Arsenal des dix-huit Ponts, located on the outskirts of the city on the Boulevard de Belfort ? On the night of 11 January 1916, at about 3am, an enormous explosion destroyed the depot, leaving a crater 30m deep and 150m in diameter. The Moulins district surrounding the depot was almost wiped out, with nearly 750 houses being totally destroyed. The official death toll was 104, with many more injured. The cause of the explosion has never been determined. |
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| Rue Faidherbe looking towards the Place du Theatre. |
| Le Grand'Garde. |
| Rue Nationale. |
| Boulevard Carnot. |
| La Prefecture. |
| Shell damage in the Rue de Bethune. |
| Shell damage on Rue Faidherbe. |
| The Old Bourse. |
| A great old bus in front of the station. |
| A view of the old and new bourses. |
| Another view of Grand'Place. |
| A postcard from 1932 showing the Place de la Republique and Rue Inkermann. |
| Another postcard depicting the shell damage on Rue Faidherbe. |
| The Porte de Tournai. |
| Grand'Place once more. |
| Rue Pierre Legrand. |
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