In the village center of Sint-Joris there used to be mainly contiguous buildings consisting of civilian and worker's homes. The buildings were predominantly characterized by a continuous development of low houses. A well-preserved (and recently restored) example of such contiguous workers' houses can be found at Lattenklieverstraat numbers 38-44. In the photo you see these workhouses decorated with flags on the occasion of the annual procession festival. The large house on the corner of Kooldreef, to the left of these houses, is the former 'parsonage'.
Raymond De Vreese and Zulma De Mets lived in one of the low, whitewashed houses (in the current Lattenklieversstraat no. 44) from 1932 to 1973. Raymond had a small farm and a few dairy cows. The neighborhood came to get delicious fresh milk. Zulma, assisted by her 3 daughters, ran a café there. The café, modest in size, was called 'Nu of Nooit', named after the pigeon company 'Nu of Nooit' that was located there for many years.
The other old photo, showing the church, shows the area around the Pelderijn in 1935. We see the former 'parsonage' on the right. On the left of this photo we see that the buildings on the Pelderijn side then consisted of contiguous, low workers' houses.