Today we hope you will join us on a short walk along “Bullis”, illustrated with those old coloured photos.
🙂
“Bullis” was slang for the street
Klostergatan, monastery street, and allude to Boulevard since it was seen as one of the most beautiful
streets in the city, and people were strolling there in the evenings.
The street is pretty much still looking as it did hundred years ago. Although the name “Bullis” it never was a real boulevard
and in the 1940th the nick name was used by fewer people, and nowadays it is not used at all.
The first photo is taken around 1900. In the middle background you can see the
tower of the small monastery church. Notice the policeman wearing a
lovely pickelhaube.
The two gentlemen in the foreground are
Johan August Ekman, who was archbishop in Sweden from 1900, and Olof
Holmström, professor in practical theology here in Lund and vicar in
Hällestad parish outside Lund.
In
1922, automobiles were not anything ordinary citizen had or used, but
in this picture, automobiles have parked in the street. You can also see
one of the cathedral towers rise above the rooftops.
To make this picture the photographer Per Bagge must be standing inside Grand
Hotel. The photo is taken the first of May 1929 and illustrates all the
people, many students in white caps, strolling down the monastery
street.
Welcome to Lund!
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