Hainaut
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.
Slipways in Ostend
Ostend is a lot more than sand, sea and sun. Two wooden slipways, built in the United States and installed in 1931 in Oostend, are floating on the Oosteroever.
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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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