After the Second World War, the acrobats and horses in the Ghent Winter Circus made way for the out-of-control classic car collection of the Mahy car garage. After more than 20 years of vacancy, the Ghent circus was renovated.
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After the Second World War, the acrobats and horses in the Ghent Winter Circus made way for the out-of-control classic car collection of the Mahy car garage. After more than 20 years of vacancy, the Ghent circus was renovated.
The Alsberge-Van Oost bleaching plant was founded in 1879. A century later, it collapsed and was left vacant for years.
Houthalen is the last mine that opend its doors in the Kempen coal basin. Only the main building and the two steel headframes were preserved.
The "Céramique et briquetteries méchaniques du Littoral" brickworks flanks the Kortrijk-Bossuit canal since 1924.
The Crachet-Picquery coal mine was one of 11 mining settlements operated by the Charbonnage de Frameries in and around the Borinage commune of the same name.
Transfo Zwevegem, Zwevegem's old power station, has been generating steam and electricity in the region since 1911. The power station is now repurposed.
Over the course of the twentieth century, the Sanitary Underwear Company emerged as the second-largest textile factory in Zottegem, East Flanders.
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