Provincie West-Vlaanderen, Flanders, BENo archive yet
Nobody has opened a page for De Ruiter yet. Its old photographs are probably in a drawer somewhere, or a box of postcards nobody has opened in years. This is where they could go.
Open its archiveYou would look after it: see what people add before it appears. You can hand it on to someone else later.
Not ready to take it on? Hear when someone opens De Ruiter's archive.
It takes a minute. You become its first keeper and can ask others to help.
A scan, or a photograph of the print taken with your phone. Old postcards count.
Neighbours and families who left De Ruiter name the faces, the shops and the years.
Send it on
A local history society, the mairie, the neighbour everyone asks about the old days. Make a link to this page and send it to them.
An archive grows best one valley at a time. Photographs of one town often show the next.