France Colliery S - France - Nov 2015

[OverArch]

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  

 

[The_Raw]

Some fantastic decay going on in there mate, that control room is very nice indeed  

 

 

[jones-y-gog]

Every shot is a winner there - looks like plenty to see. Excellent stuff!

 

[AndyK!]

Love that first shot - that room is amazing!

 

[hamtagger]

Loving that first shot too, the decay is awesome and the control room although slightly worse for wear has a strange curvy appeal about it

 

[OverArch]

Cheers guys! That window is the main attraction here, but there are some other nice bits to see as well. In the next building there is a really nice winch, that I didn't get to see unfortunately due to security doing their rounds:

 

[Hydro]

That window was deffo worth the travel

Must say that control room and the miners swings are nice too. Cool reports

 

[chambre]

I like that place, although there is not too much to see.

I wonder why someone is spending money to have security in place? There is not a lot to steal...

 

[OverArch]

I like that place, although there is not too much to see.

I wonder why someone is spending money to have security in place? There is not a lot to steal...

Well the metal fairies always seem to find stuff to pinch! - I guess they don't want people hurting themselves and being held liable. And given people died there it might also be a small sign of respect - who knows?!

 

[Bart]

Great report!

I mostly only see the photo of that window, but the rest is worth a visit as well !

 

[Perjury Saint]

Proper bostin!!