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Evening all,
One on my list but never close to was the Chambre De Commerce in Belgium. So, new tour mean't new plans and I had to get this done while I still could.
Friday afternoon we arrived by eurostar, collected the car and drove up towards Bruges hitting four sites along the way. The end of the day we travelled back South following my plan towards the city where this magnificent building was situated. After some driving around in circles and checking out the street only to see what I already knew, which was where the "tricky" and public access was, we went for food and drove out of the city and to a small rest stop for sleep.
I say sleep, with the combination of cars coming and going (think it was a bit of a dogging spot but unsure) and sleeping in the car with Sean's snoring and the summer temperature, I think we managed a few hours kip and we were on the road at 4am and back to the location.
After parking up and ummmming and ahhhhing about it, I nearly drove off. Despite there being no one around, I was still thinking of getting out at daylight - thinking two steps ahead. So I thought if I don't do it, I will regret it. So we made our rather public access in and waited the 45 minutes for the light to materialise before photographing it and leaving. Luckily we found a door open to the rear of the fence so Neil jumped over and waited by the car for us to get to the access/exit point before helping us out.
History
From the end of the fifteenth century, the importance of Bruges as an international hub.
After 1531, Antwerp took the role as a trading center of Brugge. Since the market was dominated by Spanish and Portuguese. Beursplein in Antwerp was a rectangular square with four sides covered galleries, with regulations as in Bruges, as well as opening and closing times.
The Bourse of Antwerp is perhaps designed to preview the Bruges Beursplein: a public place in the open air with some canopies where one could hide. It is built on top of an existing street intersection. In the plan, it originally had no roof.
On the initiative of Thomas Gresham, the representative of the British Crown in Antwerp,in 1565 the London Stock Exchange opened on the model of this square. It was also "the bourse", and to Queen Elizabeth after a visit on January 23, 1570 decided that the Royal Exchange had to be. The Stock Exchange of Rotterdam was established by decision of the town council "to ordain a bruised or too Plaetse, daer the coop heure meeting ordinary people were allowed to have been "dated January 30, 1595, Amsterdam followed 1611.
Renovation and work has been ongoing here for some time and evidence of things happening was all around us. Who knows how long this beautiful building will stay in this condition for and be host to many more urban explorers?
On with some photos
Thanks for looking in.
One on my list but never close to was the Chambre De Commerce in Belgium. So, new tour mean't new plans and I had to get this done while I still could.
Friday afternoon we arrived by eurostar, collected the car and drove up towards Bruges hitting four sites along the way. The end of the day we travelled back South following my plan towards the city where this magnificent building was situated. After some driving around in circles and checking out the street only to see what I already knew, which was where the "tricky" and public access was, we went for food and drove out of the city and to a small rest stop for sleep.
I say sleep, with the combination of cars coming and going (think it was a bit of a dogging spot but unsure) and sleeping in the car with Sean's snoring and the summer temperature, I think we managed a few hours kip and we were on the road at 4am and back to the location.
After parking up and ummmming and ahhhhing about it, I nearly drove off. Despite there being no one around, I was still thinking of getting out at daylight - thinking two steps ahead. So I thought if I don't do it, I will regret it. So we made our rather public access in and waited the 45 minutes for the light to materialise before photographing it and leaving. Luckily we found a door open to the rear of the fence so Neil jumped over and waited by the car for us to get to the access/exit point before helping us out.
History
From the end of the fifteenth century, the importance of Bruges as an international hub.
After 1531, Antwerp took the role as a trading center of Brugge. Since the market was dominated by Spanish and Portuguese. Beursplein in Antwerp was a rectangular square with four sides covered galleries, with regulations as in Bruges, as well as opening and closing times.
The Bourse of Antwerp is perhaps designed to preview the Bruges Beursplein: a public place in the open air with some canopies where one could hide. It is built on top of an existing street intersection. In the plan, it originally had no roof.
On the initiative of Thomas Gresham, the representative of the British Crown in Antwerp,in 1565 the London Stock Exchange opened on the model of this square. It was also "the bourse", and to Queen Elizabeth after a visit on January 23, 1570 decided that the Royal Exchange had to be. The Stock Exchange of Rotterdam was established by decision of the town council "to ordain a bruised or too Plaetse, daer the coop heure meeting ordinary people were allowed to have been "dated January 30, 1595, Amsterdam followed 1611.
Renovation and work has been ongoing here for some time and evidence of things happening was all around us. Who knows how long this beautiful building will stay in this condition for and be host to many more urban explorers?
On with some photos
Thanks for looking in.
