Vintage Alkmaar

Bike ride during the annual 'AVRO stedendag' with participants'

AVRO clothing, possibly in the Weststraat by the navy yard, 1930

 

Caravan encampment on the North Holland Canal, 

with some residents and horses, 1930

 

Procession including a band pass a wooden farmhouse, 1930

 

Refuse collection horse and carriage from the community waste facility, 1933

 

Tents in the dunes during recreation of a group of dwarfs and supervisors, 1930

 

Source: Archief Alkmaar

Vintage Alkmaar

 A military band, a girl choir and other spectators waiting for the arrival of important 

visitors at the Guard Vessel during the birthday of Princess Juliana, 30 April 1936

   

 Band plays in front of a large wooden farmhouse at Callantsoog, 1930

  

 Canal boat Cosmopoliet of Mr. Bakker sails through the Achtergracht, 1930

   

Ford garage with Shell pump, Maarten Smit in the Blue Shack, near Julianadorp, 1930

 

 View from the Molengracht of a row of cars with drivers waiting in 

advertising for Chevrolet procession organized by Garage Nelis, 1935

 

Source: Archief Alkmaar

Vintage Alkmaar

 The promenade with hotel Nassau Bergen, showing dunes, 1920

  

 The shop photographer Bonda, Old Prinsweg 11, ca. 1914

  

 Two steam trains on the station of Mons, as seen from the platform to the east. 

The locomotive goes backward towards the sea, 1914

  

 

 Two women on a patio behind a house. One of them is doing the laundry 

in a zinc tub, the other one is seated in a deck chair, 1916

 

 Waagplein, ca. 1900

   

Source: Archief Alkmaar

Vintage Alkmaar

 Bergen aan Zee. The beach with a long row of bathing carriages, seen to the northeast. 

Right into the Dome of the Strong, with a tent and changing rooms in front, 1920

  

 Dijk, ca 1930

  

 Strandafgang Zeeweg, seen from the beach, 

with a view of hotel Nassau Bergen, 1920

  

 The beach of Bergen aan Zee, just south of the Seaway flop, given to the north-east, with the prospect of hotel '' Nassau Bergen. In the foreground a punt on a wheelset, 1920

  

 Village street, 1914

  

Wilhelmina Dairy, 1914

 

Source: Archief Alkmaar

Vintage Alkmaar

 De Dijk, ca 1898

  

 Floats in the parade on the occasion of the inauguration 

celebrations of Queen Wilhelmina on September 13, 1898

  

 Mient, 1898

  

 Mient

  

Two orderlies with a stretcher on wheels, 1916

Source: Archief Alkmaar

Vintage Alkmaar

 Bench in the forest, showing a German soldier flanked by two women, 1916

  

Corner of Zijdam and Achterdam

  

 Guesthouse lunchroom 'Juliana' on the Seaway, 1914

  

 Saloon boat of the Alkmaar Packet at the Kanaalkade in Alkmaar. Getaway from the Teetotaler Bond. At the ship hang banners with the inscriptions: "do not drink because of the children" and "alcohol brain poison". 1920

  

The artist J.M. Graadt van Roggen in his studio in Bergen. 

His daughter Toos plays the piano, 1920

  

Source: Archief Alkmaar

Vintage Alkmaar

Alkmaar is a town in northern Holland. These photos are from their archives. They were all taken at the beach at Bergen aan Zee in 1920.