Hauts-de-France
In 1874, a cross-border railway connected the Belgian town of Péruwelz with the French municipality of Anzin. The aim was to export coal from the northern French mining basin to Belgium.
Nord-Pas-de-Calais Mining Basin
Remains of 109 different coal mines and other mining heritage make up the Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2012. The mines of Loos-en-Gohelle, Oignies, Arenberg and Lewarde count as 4 great memorial sites of France's coal past.
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Hauts-de-France
This truncated metal headframe took miners from the French Meurchin coal mine four hundred metres underground to cut coal.
Hauts-de-France
Fosse Mathilde is one of the oldest preserved mining buildings in the northern French mining basin. The brick complex was built in 1831. The Compagnie des Mines d'Anzin mined coal there until 1862.
Hauts-de-France
The French mining company Compagnie des mines de Vicoigne-Noeux-Drocourt pulled out all the stops in 1886 when it modernised its mining headquarters in Noeux-les-Mines.
France
When you say Wallers-Arenberg, you immediately think of the infamous cobblestone section in Paris-Roubaix bicycle road race, but Arenberg is also the name of the coal mine site located on the forest's edge.
Hauts-de-France
From 1905 to 1988, coal was extracted from the underground in the Charles Ledoux coal mine in Condé-sur-l'Escaut in France.
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In the Fosse Delloy, exploiting the coal basin only lasted a paltry forty years because it was not profitable.
Hauts-de-France
The blue-painted headframe is all that remains of the French Sabatier coal mine, closed in 1980.
Hauts-de-France
Oignies is the last place in the French mining basin of the Pas-de-Calais region where coal was exploited. The mine did not close until December 1990.
Hauts-de-France
On the border of the French town of Lens stands this 66-meter-high colossus made of reinforced concrete: the extraction tower of Fosse n° 11-19, a French coal mine that closed 30 years ago.
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