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.
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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.
In the Hainaut village of Lessines, along the Dender, this piece of industrial history is rusting: a ship loader used for loading crushed stone on the boats.
A seven-hundred-meter long embankment, a splash of asphalt here and there, and two useless viaducts: cars will not immediately drive on the four-lane road of the N60 in Frasnes-lez-Anvaing.
From December 1878 to October 1880, Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh stayed in the Belgian mining region of the Borinage.
In 1810, industrialist Henri De Gorge bought the Grand-Hornu coal mine in the Borinage, a famous mining region in Belgium.
Since 1876, coal has been transported from the Bernissart mines via Blaton via the 4-kilometre-long railway line 80/78A.
At the end of the eighteenth century, this brick building in Bernissart, Belgium, was built to house a new gadget: Thomas Newcomen's atmospheric engine.
"Bien travailler, bien s'amuser" (in English: Work hard, play hard) is the motto on the facade of the banquet hall of the Fauquez glass factory.
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