The wandering gatehouse of Beuvillers, Calvados

- December 19, 2015September 24, 2016

Tiny Beuvillers is just south of Lisieux in Normandy and you would think this beautiful Poterne de Beuvillers would be easy to find. The photographer made a very small mistake. It’s not really a Poterne - that translates as Postern, the secondary door or gate in an ancient fortification. This is

The secret in the tower at Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët

Art
Manche

- April 6, 2015May 7, 2024

There is a secret in the old tower at Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët. It was put there by an artist so remarkable she earned her own wiki page, but the secret in the tower is not mentioned amongst her many achievements. First this odd old tower. Our vintage postcard looked intriguing; what could need

Amazing new Cahaignes postcard match! Château interior…

- December 18, 2014July 10, 2018

Amazed to find this postcard of the old château library at Cahaignes before it fell into disrepair - see our original post here - and delighted to find we had already taken a photo match (below). Do you have a photo of the château interior before it was abandoned? We would love

Ugly beautiful in Dives-sur-Mer

- August 30, 2014January 10, 2018

There is an elegant Normandy villa so perfectly designed, set so well above a green meadow garden edged with trees, that every photograph of it is a success. It’s image regularly appears in blogs, tweets and across Tumblr representing the Norman ideal. It is the Villa Strassburger, located just a short, pleasant

Concrete serenity in Le Havre

- July 5, 2014June 14, 2019

Best known by travellers from the south of England as a very useful port, Le Havre is no beauty. Matching some old postcards we discovered this is not the fault of Le Havre. To date, these are our most shockingly altered then-and-now pictures. Why? Back to 1944. 132 bombings by the

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