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This was a while ago now, back in early November we travelled to Northern France to hit a few sites, this former colliery being one of them. I was thinking that there isn’t really much to see except THAT window, so it was a looonnnggg old drive just to see one thing. It turns out there is a nice old control room for the mine power plant as well. We spent about an hour in this building before heading round to the wash rooms and my first glimpse of the kuhne (I think that’s what they’re called - the hanging baskets where the miners keep their things when they go underground). They weren’t the best to be honest and whilst we were in the wash rooms we heard the security patrol driving round in their car so we waited inside for about 20 mins until they had gone and then scarpered!
I believe the site closed shortly after an explosion underground killed 15 or so miners back in the 80s. There’s a monument outside the site in their memory (which I didn’t take a pic of stupidly!).
Anyway on with the pics.
Thanks for looking
I believe the site closed shortly after an explosion underground killed 15 or so miners back in the 80s. There’s a monument outside the site in their memory (which I didn’t take a pic of stupidly!).
Anyway on with the pics.
Thanks for looking