Lab-Wan Photography - Sanatorium Lemaire

The terrace mystery:
Here the kitchen can be found in the corner on the top floor of the right wing with on the left the service wing where you can recognise the three round glass-tiles that can be seen through the kitchen's window on the postcard. Below these three glass-tiles there are windows, and not the terrace that is clearly visible on the postcard. However, if you look real close you can see the ceramic tiles around the windows have a slightly lighter tone. So... mystery solved I think, the place "wasted" by the terrace was later recovered as useful space. If you look at the postcards showing this side of the sanatorium back in the thirties you can see a promenade or "cure-gallery" in the hospitalisation wing, and in the service wing. Was the promenade of the service wing sacrificed to raise capacity from 150 to 235 patients or was there another reason?

	Nope, nothing left to eat here. All equipment has been removed leaving only the cables sticking out of the ground and hanging of the ceiling. Only the large cooker hood is still in place and even now after all these years you could still smell the fat that was accumulated in it. Probably because it was a warm day.
	Original postcard owned by Michael Hillas Une vue des cuisines - A view on the kitchen At first I was confused by this postcard and I doubted this kitchen on the postcard was the same one I had photographed. First of all the ceiling is totally different and looked far better in the thirties, it seems like is is replaces by a ugly modern cooker-hood later on, but especially the view out of the window confused me. On this postcard you can see the service wing through the window, but it apparently had some kind of a terrace and that is not the way I remembered it. So I looked for an outside picture showing the kitchen, and that was certainly shedding some light on the subject.
	The terrace mystery: Here the kitchen can be found in the corner on the top floor of the right wing with on the left the service wing where you can recognise the three round glass-tiles that can be seen through the kitchen's window on the postcard. Below these three glass-tiles there are windows, and not the terrace that is clearly visible on the postcard. However, if you look real close you can see the ceramic tiles around the windows have a slightly lighter tone. So... mystery solved I think, the place "wasted" by the terrace was later recovered as useful space. If you look at the postcards showing this side of the sanatorium back in the thirties you can see a promenade or "cure-gallery" in the hospitalisation wing, and in the service wing. Was the promenade of the service wing sacrificed to raise capacity from 150 to 235 patients or was there another reason?