Business on the Morsweg
Take a look around the current Morsweg. At first sight, you probably won’t notice anything special. It looks like a regular Dutch street with houses and a rather busy road. But the way the street looks now does not do justice to the rich history of the Morsweg. There used to be plenty of shops in this street. Do we still know what shopping used to look like without supermarkets? Leave the speedy self-checkouts and busy takeaways behind for a minute and dive into the vibrant history of the Morsweg!
A story by Nidal El Arrag, Alicia Schrikker. As part of Wie maakt geschiedenis? Lokale, koloniale & wereldgeschiedenis in de Leidse Transvaalbuurt 1860-2020 at Leiden University, Faculty of Humanities. Translations by Frank van den Boom. Supervised by Ariadne Schmidt, Alicia Schrikker.