The four historic boat lifts on the Center Canal in Hainaut overcome a height difference of 68 meters between the river basins of the Meuse and the Scheldt in Belgium.
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.
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In the early nineteenth century, the industrial revolution swept across continental Europe and one steelworks after another rose from the ground. Europe had hundreds of blast furnaces, but since the mid-twentieth century, Europe's steel industry has been slowly going downhill.
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