Do you know where this image is from?

Last month, Mr. Miquel Domingo López gave a total of 11 stereoscopic photographic plates to the Image Archive of the Museum of Badalona. The photographs had been made by his father, and included several views of the city and its surroundings.

Once digitized, we found this one which offers a not well-known view of what is currently Plaça de la Plana.

This is a photograph of which we cannot specify the date, but it is before 1930.

The house in the center of the image is Cal Corp, the farmhouse that was in the area of the current Plaça de la Plana. This house is reached by a raised construction pipe supported by pylons which was the channel through which water arrived from the Besòs river and traced the course of the mine. It was known that there was such a construction but we had no graphic record of it.

In the background, on the right, you can identify the flats of “la llum”, the housing block that still exists, located on the corner of Avinguda de Martí Pujol and Carrer d’Ignasi Iglésias.

Museu de Badalona. AI. Col·lecció Miquel Domingo