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The Start of the Saint Barbara institution along the left riverside of the Scheldt in Wetteren, anno 1880
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The first buildings of the orphanage institution: left the chapel and on the right side the convent
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Winter 1949; front view on the Saint Barbara Institution from the inundated Ham, a former bend of the Scheldt
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The greenhouse complex and the cultivations of the horticulture school in 1929
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The brewery at the climax of its activity in 1909. Stripped by the German occupier during the first world war
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The Saint Barbara Institution in 1909 with, on the right side the 30m high brewery chimney, broken down in 1920
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Printing –office and type- settingroom in 1923
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Six new classes for the primary school in 1912 and in front the Alpine garden, laid out in 1927
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Prince Leopold and Princess Astrid are welcomed by Brother Hilaire at the booth of the Saint Barbara Institution in the “Gentian Floraliën” in 1933
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Memorial tablet of Brother Simon besides the entrance of the convent in Wetteren
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The tomb of the Brothers of Our Holy Mary of Mercy in Wetteren, November 1951, after the transport from the old cemetery near the Molenstreet to the 18th Auguststreet
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More than a century the peaky tower of the chapel of the Saint Barbara Institution determined the skyline of the “Over Scheldt”
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The storm of January 19th, 1986 let the tower of the Scheppers Institution sink in the ground for 2 meters
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2003 – The peaky chapel tower was not rebuilt. In front the play ground of the kindergarten
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The interior of the Chapel around 1905
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The large window-pane above the altar in the chapel, representing the litany of Our Holy Mary
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Altar and “retabel” of the former chapel (not used anymore) in the Scheppers Institution
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A window –pane in the chapel with Maria, Mother of Mercy and Joseph, protector
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The Saint-Peter school (secondary education) in the center of Wetteren in 1912
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Wetteren Ten Ede: settlement of a second primary school of the Scheppers Institution
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Cooppalstreet (formerly called the Beirstoppelstreet); right in front of the school a large parking place on the watercourse of the old Scheldt
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The flag of the Technical Institution Scheppers, designed by Brother Vital in 1974
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Room 153: modern drawing class
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The Scheppers Institution at the end of the former century
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Different studying choices in the Scheppers Institution
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The private school bus
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The horticultural division in the Scheppers Institution
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The horticultural division in the Scheppers Institution
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The booth of the horticultural division of the Scheppers Institution at the “Gentian Floraliën” in 1995
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Woodworking in the Scheppers Institution
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Car technology in the Scheppers Institution
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Machine park in the Scheppers Institution
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Building technics in the Scheppers Institution
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Indoor garden in the Scheppers Institution
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To God the honour, for me the labour, the profit for my fellow creatures. This is the slogan of Victor Scheppers.