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I was born in Lichtenvoorde and I lived there until February 1976. Then Lichtenvoorde had about 9000 inhabitants, now about 13000. It has expanded considerably and a lot has changed. Now that I've been away for about 40 years, I can say that the bond has become small. Still, it is nice to give a picture of the Lichtenvoorde as I experienced it myself, so approximately around 1970-1975. There are no doubt many more images, but what matters is what is in my personal memory. The map is from the early 1970s, when 't Veld district (where I lived, bottom right) was built up and construction started on the Hooiland (top center).
Below you can see Lichtenvoorde in 1925, a small village with the Catholic Church on the left and the Reformed Church on the right and the market somewhere in between. My grandfather must have lived through this time. His family also had a cafe in the village and he later ran a furniture store. The factory at the bottom is the Sterenborg shoe factory on Nieuwe Maat. At the end of the sixties, a little further down, was the 't Veld district, where I was born.
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Below is a more recent photo of Lichtenvoorde. At the bottom you can see the Hulshof-Herwalt factory. That factory with its piles of tanned hides at the back, I passed it every morning when I had to cycle to school. Above the factory you see the Hamaland sports hall, from there to the left you come to my old house on the Staringstraat. Particularly at the top of the photo, enormous additions have been made in the last 40 years.
If you want to know more about the Lichtenvoorde in the past, visit the website of the Vereniging voor Oudheidkunde Lichtenvoorde.
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A photo that does not fall within the map above, but is nice to show: the swimming pool where I had my swimming lessons in the hamlet of Barlo, between Lichtenvoorde and Aalten. The Groot-Deunk complex was actually a kind of recreation project for the disabled, among others. It apparently went bankrupt pretty quickly. When the Bhagwan commune wanted to buy it, it soon caught fire. Later, an AZC was established in it and in 2012 this was closed and the site was cleaned up. But I still remember the swimming lessons there.
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