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Now known as the Morspoort (Marsh Gate). Fortunately not demolished.

Built in 1668 as one of the original 10 old city gates of Leiden city, the Morspoort, or Marsh Gate, is only one of 2 that exist today. It still looks identical to this print, but the fence to the right no longer stands. Nowadays, traffic - except pedestrians and bicyclists - is directed around the gate. The Morspoort used to be called Gallows Gate since its road lead the the gallow field but it was renamed shortly after to Morspoort because of the nearby marshes. There are still 2 roads called Galgewater (Gallow's water) on each side of a canal. View also www.360cities.net/image/morspoort-leiden-the-netherlands

As it is still standing today

Michiel2005, Hylda H and Blunder, Thank you for the information (and current photo) of this gate! We can expand our descriptive information when we update.

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The windmill to the left most likely is the 'Overveerpolder', near the 'Warmonderhek' in Warmond. Not far away from the 'Schuttersveld', military parade ground in Leiden. This particular windmill ceased to exist around 1930. Almost the same picture, in a lesser quality, can be found in the archives of the Dutch Windmill Database Organisation ( www.molendatabase.nl ). See at their website in the section of 'Database van verdwenen molens in Nederland' under 'DB nr' # 3536 to convince yourself. (this information has been made available by the help of mr L. Middelkoop of the Dutch Windmill Database)

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Holland before the year 1920 / Nederland van vóór 1920, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

The bridge is called the Korenbrug and still stands today (recently restored). The tower is that if Leiden City Hall.

Looking on to the Korenbrug at night.

'koren' in dutch is 'wheat' in english 'corn' would have been 'mais' in dutch. this is a common mistake but please relabel your text

The confusion goes back to the so-called Corn Laws in England in 1832, which actually regulated what Americans called "wheat." At that time, American corn (as in corn on cobs), or maize, was virtually unknown in England.

Incidentally, "cob," as in cobweb, was another name for a spider -- but that's a whole different can of worms . . . .

According to the OED, corn has meant seed or grain in English as far back as the 9th century, but it tends to refer to different grains in different regions.

"As a general term the word includes all the cereals, wheat, rye, barley, oats, maize, rice, etc., and, with qualification (as black corn, pulse corn), is extended to leguminous plants, as pease, beans, etc., cultivated for food. Locally, the word, when not otherwise qualified, is often understood to denote that kind of cereal which is the leading crop of the district; hence in the greater part of England ‘corn’ is = wheat, in North Britain and Ireland = oats; in the U.S. the word, as short for Indian corn, is restricted to maize."