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Location: Boussu, Mons, Hainaut, Wallonie, Wallonia, Belgium

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1. The Suitcase Trees – Bust of Henri De Gorge loop from Hornu

6.62km

01:43

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2. Borinage Line 98 – The Suitcase Trees loop from Wasmes

12.1km

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70m

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3. The Suitcase Trees – Bust of Henri De Gorge loop from Wasmuel

6.72km

01:43

20m

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Katrien

September 7, 2021

In 1855 the family placed a cast iron statue of Henri De Gorge in the middle of the courtyard. The statue of Egide Mélot would remain after the closure. Weather and wind made a restoration necessary. At the opening of the MAC's it was placed back on its pedestal. Behind the central square, descendants built a crypt as a burial vault for the family. It was used late (in 1927) for legal reasons. Then the remains of De Gorge and some twenty family members were transferred to the local cemetery, along with Bouchardon's crucifix.

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Willem VS

November 28, 2022

From industry to design:

Henri De Gorge has been innovating all his life. He himself invented new extraction techniques and worked with ultramodern steam engines. After the closure in 1954, the coal mine sank into oblivion, only to get a second life in the 1990s. The square courtyard with the old horse stables, the immense oval square with the engineers' house, the machine building site ... everything is still there to testify to times gone by. However, it is not a mining museum. Le Grand-Hornu remained true to its founder's vision and always looked forward. Since the early 1990s, the Grand-Hornu Images museum has been staging exhibitions related to design and applied arts. At the time, it may have been quite progressive or even a bit crazy to exhibit design, but today Grand-Hornu Images is a real reference in this field in Europe.

visitmons.nl/te-ziente-doen/academic-adventure/le-grand-hornu

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Erwin D.R

May 10, 2022

The whole area exudes history!

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Location: Boussu, Mons, Hainaut, Wallonie, Wallonia, Belgium

The Grand-Hornu site

1. The Suitcase Trees – Bust of Henri De Gorge loop from Hornu

2. Borinage Line 98 – The Suitcase Trees loop from Wasmes

3. The Suitcase Trees – Bust of Henri De Gorge loop from Wasmuel

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