More than three hundred meters of underground burial galleries extend beneath the cemetery of Laeken.
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More than three hundred meters of underground burial galleries extend beneath the cemetery of Laeken.
John Cockerill (and the rest of his family) propelled Belgium, the Netherlands, Prussia and France into the era of the Industrial Revolution in the early 19th century. A few decades after Cockerill's death, a monument honoring the 'father of the workers' was unveiled in the streets of Seraing.
The Cockerill family's tomb in the Spa cemetery pales into insignificance compared to the monument that adorned the family grave for a century.
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