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Neighbouring Zeeland (Holland : English langauge tourist brochure : Official Tourist Office : The Hague : Den Haag : Netherlands : nd [1926/1927] : Track of the Zeeland Steamship Company
A fascinating bi-fold English language tourist brochure to "Neighbouring Zeeland", the Dutch province, and issued by the National Tourist Office that was then based in Den Haag/The Hague. With fine colour covers, it gives many details of travel, transport, locations and destinations in the province that forms the south western extremities of the Netherlands. At the time the province had direct ferry services to England via the lonstanding Flushing/Vlissingen to Folkestone steamer services that are heavily advertised in this brochure; however it is a tipped in notice, issued by the operator the Zeeland Steamship Company (Stoomvaart Maatschappij Zeeland) that helps give a date to the brochure. From 1 January 1927 the company's services transferred to Harwich and were then operated in conjunction with the London & North Eastern Railway's ferry services to the Hook of Holland/Hoek van Holland. This change somewhat renders much of the brochure's advertising slightly erroneous!
There are many other pages of information and adverts, a selection of which are scanned here. The busy central spread shows a mixture of information and photographs. The main feature is a route map of the Zeeland Company's Flushing to Folkestone ferry route indicating the safety of the route, 92 miles of sea, thanks to land features and seamarks such as lightships and lighthouses. Needless to say it is this page that has tipped to it the poster advertising the change in route from Folkestone to Harwich. The photos show the interior of the Grand Hotel Britannia in Flushing/Vlissingen, one of the SMZ's vessles, and a picture of local inhabitants outside the church at Koudekerke on Walcheren.
The Hotel, built in 1885 and renamed as the 'Britannia' in 1924, was used by the occupying German forces during WW2 and subsequently destroyed during the Allied Liberation of the Netherlands. A modern, brutalist structure was constructed to replace it but this was closed and demolished in c.2010.
Neighbouring Zeeland (Holland : English langauge tourist brochure : Official Tourist Office : The Hague : Den Haag : Netherlands : nd [1926/1927] : Track of the Zeeland Steamship Company
A fascinating bi-fold English language tourist brochure to "Neighbouring Zeeland", the Dutch province, and issued by the National Tourist Office that was then based in Den Haag/The Hague. With fine colour covers, it gives many details of travel, transport, locations and destinations in the province that forms the south western extremities of the Netherlands. At the time the province had direct ferry services to England via the lonstanding Flushing/Vlissingen to Folkestone steamer services that are heavily advertised in this brochure; however it is a tipped in notice, issued by the operator the Zeeland Steamship Company (Stoomvaart Maatschappij Zeeland) that helps give a date to the brochure. From 1 January 1927 the company's services transferred to Harwich and were then operated in conjunction with the London & North Eastern Railway's ferry services to the Hook of Holland/Hoek van Holland. This change somewhat renders much of the brochure's advertising slightly erroneous!
There are many other pages of information and adverts, a selection of which are scanned here. The busy central spread shows a mixture of information and photographs. The main feature is a route map of the Zeeland Company's Flushing to Folkestone ferry route indicating the safety of the route, 92 miles of sea, thanks to land features and seamarks such as lightships and lighthouses. Needless to say it is this page that has tipped to it the poster advertising the change in route from Folkestone to Harwich. The photos show the interior of the Grand Hotel Britannia in Flushing/Vlissingen, one of the SMZ's vessles, and a picture of local inhabitants outside the church at Koudekerke on Walcheren.
The Hotel, built in 1885 and renamed as the 'Britannia' in 1924, was used by the occupying German forces during WW2 and subsequently destroyed during the Allied Liberation of the Netherlands. A modern, brutalist structure was constructed to replace it but this was closed and demolished in c.2010.