684 Comments for Hasard Cheratte (Coal Mine)

My father has hundred of memories here while he was on duty- he still sometimes talks about ths place and tell us stories even once he had an accident and his leg was broken unfortunately but he still loves this place

My father had worked here for years -- cant believe how difficult it was-worked 1000 meters under the ground -good things well paid

I absolutely love it!!

viel gelernt

I think I passed over those letters, being astounded by the view of the buildings... interesting, I'm not sure what they read.

It looks like there is a Christmas tree on the balcony at the top on the left... any idea Motts?

Motts, any clue as to what the stone wall spelled out, the N and T are still so beautiful.

Thank you Motts. I can't get enough of your work.

Amazing that after 33 years it's still hanging there. So cool. A reminder that there were once people here 24/7.

I worked at a coal mine in the 70s. Part of the service of the lights was to make sure the batteries had acid & distilled water in them. This looks like an acid/water filling station. The batteries were big and heavy. I hope they have gotten smaller by now.

Oh my God... Beautiful. Simply beautiful.

Beautiful. Such great brick details on a building designed to extract coal out of the ground.

I saw the same thing at the Sterling Zinc Mine in Northern NJ,. There the miners put thier breathing gear in them. They were used if the mine was flooded with carbonmonoxide, there was a coal filter inside and when thye breathed the air would be filtered. I think, at the time the Zinc mine was running, they would work for a half hour before they got too hot and would burn your mouth and throat when breathing, but if you wanted to get out of the mine...

Of course their showers. :-D Ever seen how dusty a coal miner gets? Even when you hold a piece of charcoal for BBQ'ing your hands get black dust on them. Imagine what you would look like at the end of the day. You would not want to get coal dust anywhere on your car, would you? All other things aside, it was pretty cool that they had showers for them as well as changing rooms.

that is awesome,thanx for the link Doug very chilling.