While many of the shops are run-of-the-mill buildings, some have been converted from differently purposed buildings including pubs, houses and even a shipping container.
The feeling of getting back a prized possession after several years was quite visible on the face of a 101-year-old Dutch woman. She had got back a painting looted by the Nazis from her father during the second world war. The artwork is the portrait of Steven Wolters, which was created by a Dutch master Caspar Netscher in 1683. Netscher’s several paintings are in the National Gallery in London. The woman, Charlotte Bischoff van Heemskerck, is a non-practising Baptist. She joined the Dutch resistance during the war and never gave up hope to get this painting back.