Lombok-West
Former workers' quarter of canal-side streets, with a rebuilt sawmill and its eighteenth-century mill yard.
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This guide to Lombok-West in Utrecht stands you in the mill yard of De Ster, a sawmill on the old canal edge of the neighbourhood, and follows its fortunes from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. It turns on a building that lost the very thing it was named for, and on the residents who later spent years lobbying City Hall about it. Best heard from the yard at Molenpark, facing the low sheds.
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