While cleaning up the Turfschip museum, volunteers found a box full of glass negatives with images of Kolhorn in the period 1900-1930. “It’s a shame to just let it go,” they thought. That is why, with the help of the inhabitants, they made a gift box full of nostalgia and recognition.
“We have called the book ‘Kolhorn, then and now, recognisably changed’,” explains museum secretary Aad de Booij. “We found the glass negatives two years ago and immediately knew we had to do something with them. Then we called on residents to help us via our website and Facebook.”
Because the images from then were on glass, but the spots of today had yet to be captured. A number of fanatic photographers have supplied the photos and now a nice overview has been created. The first 25 copies of the book have already been sold. “It is the recognition of ‘oh there it stands uncle Jan’, or ‘hey there you have Trudy’, such things,” explains De Booij.
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The museum has made the photo book under its own management, but has had help from the Postcode Lottery. “It has become a kind of gift. A beautiful letter box with a wrapper around it. When you open it, the book, with 68 pages full of photos, is in front of you. Underneath we have added another set of 24 black and white photos. You can see images from just after the reclamation of the Wieringermeer, but also, for example, children skating on the ice in front of café Schippers Welvaren. Our museum will open again on May 1. Until then, people will still receive a small discount,” says De Booij with a smile .