KROEG: VIEW FROM THE DIJK NORTH OF SILO - KROEK ENTRY
(pic 8-95 / to SSE)
Visitors are waiting for opening time at the locked entry-door of the "Kroek".
Its entry passage passes through a house (for 4 workers who tended the Ketelhuis heater), past the (Vielborg painted) water-door, and into the Kroeg at the Silo's NW corner.
KROEG ENTRY PASSAGE: DIJK ENTRY DOOR FROM INSIDE ('LOCKED' WITH A POLE)
(pic 9-94 / to WWS)
KROEG ENTRY PASSAGE: WATER-DOOR HALF OPEN
(pic 9-94 / to EEN)
One of the double doors is open, revealing half of Vielborg's painting.
KROEG ENTRY PASSAGE: WATER-DOOR - IJ VIEW
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KROEG ENTRY PASSAGE: KROEG DOOR OPEN
(pic 9-94 / to EEN)
The passage water-door is fully open - opposite it is the Kroeg's kitchen. The door into the Kroeg is also open revealing another Vielborg painting.
KROEG ENTRY PASSAGE: VIEW INTO THE KROEG KITCHEN
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KROEG KITCHEN
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View from the kitchen's south end towards its entry and the open water-door beyond.
KROEG: DOOR INTO ENTRY PASSAGE
(pic 9-94 / to W)
From inside the Kroeg: the little entry-passage door down narrow steps beside the base of the huge 1896 chimney.
KROEG: FROM ENTRY DOOR
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Emerging into the Kroeg up the entry steps, past the chimney's base and Bart's new stove.
KROEG: E-WALL FROM KROEG ENTRY
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View past the stove towards the double doors that open to the quay.
KROEG: TOWARDS NW ENTRY-CORNER
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KROEG:
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KROEG: S-WALL - CORA'S PAINTING
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This magnificent vital but generalised picture - a sinister précis of the 'Dutch-sunflowers' theme - adorned the Kroeg like a huge 'logo', precisely scaled to the proportions of its cubic form, though made on a found roll of unmeasured paper.
KROEG: BAR & CORA'S PAINTING
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KROEG: BAR & STOOLS
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KROEG: BAR CORNER
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KROEG: NIGHT PARTY
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KROEG: NIGHT PARTY - VIEW OF THE IJ
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KROEG: AUCTION OF SILO SOUVENIERS
(pic 11-97 / to SSW)
Duro Toomato is auctioneer.
KROEG: N-WALL WITH STOVE-1 BETWEEN THE WINDOWS
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I have seen this flat stove on a January night glowing in its centre red as a cherry, flanked by pointed wave tips glinting prussian-blue in the cold black windows. Heat radiating through the big room marooned among the passing ship lights.
KROEG: STOVE-1 (ERNST LEAVEN 3-1990)
(pic 6-94 / to NNW)
[Re: ERNST sketches for this stove: NOTE 5]
Ernst made this stove for the Kroeg opening. Adapted from a corn-chute, cut & re-assembled 'in the wrong order'. The 'eyes' were once glass. The wheel once turned and raised the bottom charging-door on a chain to regulate the fire's air. As an alternative control Fred inserted three tubes, sized to be capped with beer-bottle tops! However, the stove's centre - corroded by creasoted wood - melted when coal was burned.
KROEG: STOVE-1 - SIDE VIEW
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This thin broad firebox radiates the room from its big flat surface.
KROEG: STOVE-1 & BABY-CHAIR
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KROEG: STOVE-2 (BART & RUUD)
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In Nov 1994 Ernst's now corroded stove was replaced by the Silo's latest version of the more efficient three-tiered type - this one by Bart and Ruud.
KROEG: 'MENDED' TABLE
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Ironically situated in one of two most 'mobile' positions in the room: in the pathway to the open quay exit, this extremely funny 'lame' table has purloined a chair to functionally survive. An example of the fascinating entertainment of forms gratuitously assembled via immediate necessity, (and of consequent functional relativity !).
KROEG: VIEW FROM ITS EAST-EXIT
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The Ij water and the Kroeg's quay with its fire brazier - through the open door.
KROEG QUAY - SILO "5-YAAR SILO" PARTY DAY
(pic 4-6-94 / to S)
From the Kroeg's east-exit people step down to the quay. A tarp hangs from a suction derrick over a band-stage. Because it's a party day the Ketelhok (boiler-room) doors are open and everyone may enter normally private spaces between the Gang and the Kroeg.
KROEG QUAY - SILO "5-YAAR SILO" PARTY NIGHT BAND-STAND
(pic 4-6-94 / to NW)
KROEG QUAY & THE KETELHOK DOORS
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The Kroeg's public portion of quay seen from the raised north end of the Silo's private quay.
The heart-windowed doors are the Silo's most northerly entry to the Gang via the N-Tower's discharge floor. On some public occasions they are open and the party space extends through the Ketelhok to the N-Tower room and the WCs behind the Kroeg [see previous and next pics].
KETELHOK (BOILER-ROOM)
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The Ketelhok
housed a 2m high furnace that heated air for the N-Tower dryers; it almost filled the room (the squatters had it removed in case of asbestos) - this . Now this is a functionally indeterminate place, sometimes open as an extension of a Kroek-based party.From the quay-entry end we look towards an opening into the North-Tower room.
NORTH-TOWER DISCHARGE ROOM WITH AFTER-PARTY DECOR
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The North-Tower's erstwhile discharge room seen through the Ketelhok exit. Sometimes open as an extension of party-space it displays remains of festive decor.
On the left is a steel door into the north-end of the Gang, to the right (signalled by a sign on the far-wall) is a door into the toilet behind the Kroeg.
TOILET BEHIND THE KROEG
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Improvised WC cubicles ("H"=heren / "D"=dames) in the toilet space behind the Kroeg kitchen. Also accessible from the Kroeg entry passage through the opening to the left of the WCs.
TOILET BEHIND THE KROEG: WC
(pic 11-97 / to N)
