Cars Delgrange garage site in Oost Cappel - 25 Mar 1996

Monday 25 March 1996 (0845) – The Cars Delgrange garage property remains on the same site today facing on the Route de l’Europe, the main street through the village. However, is totally different today having been modernised with new workshops and offices from the corner of Rue Verte (to the left) virtually right along to where the house with a blue advertising panel is in the distance. (Looking on Google Streetview gives an idea of what development has taken place).

One of the Saviem school buses can be seen on the rear parking ground. Oost Cappel is a village where most of the houses are in France although some are across the border in Belgium. The small Customs Post building of the Belgian authority remains standing in the main street very close to the white building on the far right of the photograph (a bar named ‘Het Witte Paard’ or as we would say in Britain ‘The White Horse’). Outside the Customs Post is a statute that represents the seated Customs Officer from days past.