Category: <span>Disappeared</span>

The Solarium

This article is from De Bourg 4/2010 From Latin: place where one can take a sunbath, also solarium. Before 1940, in the mid-harvest period, the owners and managers organized all kinds of water sports such as competitive swimming, clean-diving of the two seesaws. Water polo matches were also regularly held…

First Post

We often think that the old postal office at the Church ‘OLV-Tenhemelopneming’ was the first post office in Leopoldsburg. However, this is not the case. Already before the construction of brick roads, coaches (‘malle-post’ 1) drove our region to Diest and Hasselt on a daily basis. At the time, the…

My Royal House

  My Royal House was a museum that existed from 2001-2010 and was located at Antwerpsesteenweg 1. It concerned a private collection of objects related to the Belgian royal family and which was developed by Astrid Bammens. She set up an exhibition on the subject in Retie in 1995. Later…

Kiosk

  The kiosk stood in the middle of Koningsplaats and it was the center of relaxation life on Sunday. The kiosk was hit by a truck in 1924 and destroyed.   Check out the old postcards too