Social life: Confisserie des Flandres, 'candy factory', Roesbrugge

Photograph taken by amateur photographer Hector Dehaeck. Dehaeck was active in the first half of the last century and captured a variety of subjects including events, accidents, weddings and rural life, as well as a series of unique images of Roesbrugge (just behind the front lines) during World War I. Dehaeck was born in Roesbrugge in 1886. It was only after World War I that he moved to Ypres. By trade, he was a baker (he was also a renowned pastry chef known for his delicious bakes), but his true passion lay in photography. He was a sort of proto-photojournalist. The Dehaeck family donated his archive (glass plates and negatives) to the Ieper City Archives in 2012.