I do like this little town having stayed there back in 2007. With the help of GoogleStreetView, here's a Then & Now . B9868 A motorcycle despatch rider greets Madame Scarlette, an Englishwoman who runs the Hotel des Fleurs in the village of Les Andelys, 31 August 1944. http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205202509 B9869 A union flag hangs in the main street of Les Andelys as British forces arrive, 31 August 1944. The woman in the foreground is a 'Madame Scarlett', wife of an expatriate Englishman and owner of the Hotel des Fleurs. http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205206282 Rue Saint-Jacques, Les Andelys.
Great photos Owen, I was there in September 2011 when visiting the area for research - and before that on a brief visit in 2004, when I was lucky enough to see the Musee Normandie Niemen, about the French Air Force squadron that fought on the Eastern front with the Russians in WW2 - it's now part of a bigger air and space museum at Le Bourget, but it will never be the same -a truly individual and strange, yet wonderful collection, a real gem, it's a real shame it ran out of funding. I really want to do a whole Joe Small journey from Brest to St Pierre - the poor man was only in the 10th Hussars for a month and in France for two weeks - it's just finding the time, but I have fond memories of les Andelys, although not strictly on that itinerary. Did you ever get to see the little WW2 museum in Tosny, just across the bridge from here - it's been closed each time I've been?
Was in Les Andelys again for a couple of days from Thursday to yesterday morning. I took this Friday from memory, not too bad eh?
