Then and now. EU quarter edition. Chaussée d'Etterbeek passing under the rue de la Loi viaduct before WW1 and today.

Chaussée d'Etterbeek looking NE towards Schuman. 1970s and today.

Rue de la Verveine in the 1970s and its position now, long since gobbled up by whatever that building is. Résidence Palace on the left.

Some buildings get to survive in Brussels. Les Dames l'Adoration Perpétuelle were expropriated in 1907 from rue des Sols, under rue Ravenstein, and built a replica of their 1745 chapel in rue Van Maerlant. The original wasn't demolished till 1955, so there were two of them.

The level-crossing at rue Belliard, which survived until the mid-1950s, when the road became an autoroute. Picture of an actual train here https://www.flickr.com/photos/85446707@N08/49901895382/

Rue Van Maerlant from rue Belliard, pre-WW1 and today. What a whale Résidence Palace must have seemed when it was planted in this very old-fashioned and low-rise neighborhood in the mid-1920s.

Top, rue Juste Lipse, 1980. Bottom, east side of place Jean Rey today. Exact same place. Most of rue Juste Lipse, to the left, is under today's Juste Lipse building. They kept the snazzy name for the new road cut between rue Froissart and Jean Rey, if you get me. Confusing.

If you stand in place Jean Rey with the Aloft hotel on your right (watch out for traffic), that charming wall is what used to be rue Juste Lipse. You can date the photo yourself from the cars.

The Zoological gardens in 1854, looking towards chaussée d'Etterbeek. Now Parc Léopold. The placement might be out a bit as the ground has been moved about since then.

Parklife!

Goodnight.