Together with Liège, Antwerp was home to the 1930 World's Exposition, a double exhibition that the Bureau International des Expositions did not recognise.
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Together with Liège, Antwerp was home to the 1930 World's Exposition, a double exhibition that the Bureau International des Expositions did not recognise.
Around a flooded quarry, you can still find traces of the exploitation of yesteryear, such as lime kilns, a rusted portal crane, brick tunnels and a loading quay to transport blocks of stone.
During the final months of World War I, the British Army Troop Company Royal Engineers erected a concrete bridge over the Kemmelbeek near Ypres.
A skull and crossbones adorn the mossy grave of Antoine Michel Wemaer, a merchant buried here in 1837.
A century after the construction of the Waggelwater Bridge, a railway bridge over the Bruges-Ostend canal, a new railway bridge was commissioned in 2009, and trains no longer crossed the monumental Waggelwater Bridge.
The Belgian city of Bruges developed into an economic powerhouse from the 11th century onwards, thanks to its Medieval Flemish cloth industry and its international port.
In the early 20th century, between the railway line Ghent-Bruges and the Ghent-Ostend canal, 'La Brugeoise & Nivelles' rose from the ground, a famous railway equipment manufacturer.
The former Delhaize brush factory is one of Bruges' most striking and best-preserved industrial heritage sites.
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