Hooge Crater Open Air Museum
Posted in Museums, Trips at 21:32 on 30 May 2016
As I mentioned before there was an open air museum right beside our hotel in Ypres (well, 3 kilometres from Ypres.)
A box at the entrance asked for a donation of €1. Well worth it.
This collection of war detritus just inside the entrance can also be seen in the photograph of Hooge Crater I posted here:-
This is the extreme left hand end of the crater lake/pond:-
The blockhouse:-
The crater from a small bridge over part of it. The algae had receded quite a bit by next morning:-
More war remnants. Shell casings, barbed wire support struts etc:-
Trench remnants. Originally German. From them, in 1915, was launched the first flame-thrower attack:-
More trenches:-
Tags: First World War, Hooge Crater, the Great War, World War 1, WW1, WWI, Ypres
Denis Cullinan
30 May 2016 at 23:04
Jack—
You’ve done a fine photography job.
Strange, the older I get, the more horrified I am by even ancient evils. “Long ago and far away” doesn’t dilute the horror any more.
——Denis
jackdeighton
30 May 2016 at 23:52
Denis,
No it doesn’t. And politicians – or the like in undemocratic countries – who’ve not been to war never seem to take the lesson.
The contrast between now and then is quite stark, though. It’s so peaceful looking yet everywhere you turn there are war cemeteries and war museums – or signposts to them. And those won’t be the last of my photographs.