Where is this tower, likely photographed in Belgium about 100 years ago?

Where is this tower, likely photographed in Belgium about 100 years ago?

7/11/2020 12:17:51 AM

This is not in Belgium, but in Béthune, France, although not far from the Belgian border.

The belfry (the tower) is originally from 1346, but was destroyed during the first world war and rebuilt between 1921 and 1923. You can find it on Google Streetview from almost the same point as your photographs have been taken.

Beffroi de Béthune

Image source: Wikimedia Commons

How did I find it? Since the time period matches, I assumed that the tower was being rebuilt after the first world war and googling for images of belfries rebuilt after the first world war returned a picture of this tower as one of the first hits.

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