From Faber to the lock

Hotel-Restaurant Faber (Meint Veningastraat 123) is a household name and has a turbulent history from courthouse to post office, town hall, theatre, hotel and restaurant.
Former post and telegraph office from 1898 (Meint Veningastraat 117)
Herberg De Gouden Koe (Meint Veningastraat 59) is one of the oldest buildings in this part of Hoogezand and now a flower shop.
In'Ons huis\\\' (Meint Veningastraat 27) an association was established with the aim of'to elevate the working class through courses and culture\\\'.
The Sluiskade used to be called: the Busy neighbourhood. While ships had to wait in front of the lock, the skippers' wives did their shopping at the grocer, baker and butcher. This is how a lively retail trade developed here, and several pubs were opened.
The former factory complex of the iron foundry De Muinck Keizer is located at Sluiskade 13-27. Cast steel was the first to be made here in the Netherlands. Later it became a gun factory and a machine factory.
Bodewes of the shipyards is a well-known name in Hoogezand. The shipyard had its office at Werfkade 24.
Where Meijer bakery is now, there used to be bakery Meint Veninga (Meint Veningastraat 90). He was the resistance fighter after which this street is named.
Cardboard and Hoogezand belong together. The strawboard factory Hooites-Beukema opened its doors here at 114 Meint Veningastraat in 1869.
The route can also be followed via the Spacetime Layers app. Here are many more descriptions of historic buildings.
Starting points: Hotel Faber (Meint Veningastraat 123, Hoogezand) or the Sluiskade.
Break tips: Hotel-Restaurant Faber (Mon-Fri), Fleurshop Bloemen (Sluiskade 40), Coraxe Eeterij (daytime restaurant, Meint Veningastraat 10).

Photos: Historical Archive Midden-Groningen.