tarboat's photos with the keyword: limburg

The Tessenderlo chemical plant at Ham specialises in phosphate chemicals, particularly for the agricultural sector.

The development of the 'Limburg Meuse' colliery in Eisden, Belgium , saw the use of concrete for most of the surface structures. Production started in 1923 and closure was in 1987. Subsequently most of the site was demolished including the nearer of the two listed headframes. The developer was then required to completely rebuild the headframe as a replica!

Lockers in the pithead baths at Beringen Colliery which closed in 1989.

Beringen Colliery closed in 1989 and part of the site is now used as a mining museum. The second shaft headgear does not seem to have much attention lavished upon it and the roof over the sheaves has been removed.

Coal washery at Beringen, closed in 1989.

The Houthalen Collliery in the Limburg region of Belgium was operated along with that at Heusden-Zolder in its later life and closed with it in 1992. What remains is rather pointless, as the headframes are entirely out of context without the rest of the buildings that were once here. The scene kept making me think of the tripods in H G Wells' War of the Worlds. This is what it used to look like .

The Beringen colliery was closed in 1989 and is now a museum with some parts open to visitors. Other bits are less accessible. Best viewed large .

The Beringen colliery was closed in 1989 and is now a museum with some parts open to visitors. Other bits are less accessible.

Closed since 1989, the shaft top at Beringen still looks good.

Shaft top at the Beringen Colliery. Full tubs would have come off the cages at this side and head for the washery behind the camera.