They used to pack Anderlecht fans in pretty tight.
Not entirely sure they were all Belgians though
If it is a mine in charleroi, my great-grandfather and his brothers could very probably be in this pic. I remember my grandfather describing such things and how it pushed him to leave that city.
I see this picture every 2 weeks.
Nothing wrong with that, there’s a constant influx of new people to this site. But it’s funny.
Belgian GDP was top of the world at that time.
If you think the mines weren’t dirty, this photo is actually in colour.
Op een dag vind je de job van je leven, en dan ben je weg natuurlijk.
De mijnen waren bijna even diep als het gat in de begroting.
Koolputters / topdocu op vrt max.
white male privalege 🙂
Vroeger was het beter, lol.
Claustro what ?
would it have been that hard to build slightly taller elevators?
Ah yes when we were enjoying the spoils of Congo.
(I despise L2 with a passion, but one should not forget that normal people were not privileged)
De goeien ouwen tijd
De trein naar de kust in de zomer
Die hebben wel warmer dan wij
Dat is het zelfde wat ze doen op scholen voor kinderen met autisme
Alot to be grateful for regarding our current living standards, we are a blessed generation thanks to the contributions and sacrifices of the previous generations. I wonder if there is a national monument erected somewhere in Belgium for these miners?
Soms vraag ik mij af waarom ik eigenlijk lid ben van de vakbond maar als ik die foto zie dan weet ik het weer….
Not surprising at all, Belgians had a tendency to exploit people horrificly around those times (Belgian Congo)
Netflix execs headed into the millennial nostalgia mines to greenlight more mid content
Those women’s job was to poke the miners with some pole or rake, so nothing sticks out of the cage?
(Yeah I know they were also likely waiting there for filled up carts to emerge. But it must’ve been fuckin’ cold there most of the year, so not much of a win.)
Zó veel efficiënter is dit toch niet? Hurkend neem je toch ook meer oppervlakte in dan staand?
Male privilege.
Wow, does that means Belgium also had White slaves ?
Me when the NMBS decides to send only 1/4th of my train
Tzijn weeral de allochtonen he
And this is why eventually locals stopped working the mines and even chose poverty and homelessness over mine work. Which caused the Belgian and Italian government to set up a migration scheme for mine work.
Yooo my grandmothers uncle lost him arm in that mine.
Vroeger was alles beter!
We’re actually doing a play about the belgian mines, more specifically about the italian immigration but still I enjoy to see this here ^^
Reminds me of the slave labour in Qatar!!!
Reposts all the way down.
At that time the workers were Italians?
I’d say there’s about 1700 in this picture, but 1900 is not a bad guess. Let’s just agree there’s a lot of people stuffed in a small space.
I work in security systems. We have a large nursing house in Quaregnon as client, in the middle of the slag heaps.
During a visit on site, I was surprised to enter a large technical room with the same temperature as outside, a huge grid on the wall and another 3m diameter grid on the ground. Quite unusual.
The grid on the ground is called « le bouchon » (the cork) and its a 3x3m steel meshed tube anchored on the top of the former main mine shaft which is… around 800m deep.
The external grid/vent is an air intake in case of a collapse deep inside the mine so that the external is sucked inside instead of the building…
Quite amazing the amount of people living above a giant Swiss cheese that just ask to collapse!
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They used to pack Anderlecht fans in pretty tight.
Not entirely sure they were all Belgians though
If it is a mine in charleroi, my great-grandfather and his brothers could very probably be in this pic. I remember my grandfather describing such things and how it pushed him to leave that city.
I see this picture every 2 weeks.
Nothing wrong with that, there’s a constant influx of new people to this site. But it’s funny.
Belgian GDP was top of the world at that time.
If you think the mines weren’t dirty, this photo is actually in colour.
Op een dag vind je de job van je leven, en dan ben je weg natuurlijk.
De mijnen waren bijna even diep als het gat in de begroting.
Koolputters / topdocu op vrt max.
white male privalege 🙂
Vroeger was het beter, lol.
Claustro what ?
would it have been that hard to build slightly taller elevators?
Ah yes when we were enjoying the spoils of Congo.
(I despise L2 with a passion, but one should not forget that normal people were not privileged)
De goeien ouwen tijd
De trein naar de kust in de zomer
Die hebben wel warmer dan wij
Dat is het zelfde wat ze doen op scholen voor kinderen met autisme
Alot to be grateful for regarding our current living standards, we are a blessed generation thanks to the contributions and sacrifices of the previous generations. I wonder if there is a national monument erected somewhere in Belgium for these miners?
Soms vraag ik mij af waarom ik eigenlijk lid ben van de vakbond maar als ik die foto zie dan weet ik het weer….
Not surprising at all, Belgians had a tendency to exploit people horrificly around those times (Belgian Congo)
Netflix execs headed into the millennial nostalgia mines to greenlight more mid content
Those women’s job was to poke the miners with some pole or rake, so nothing sticks out of the cage?
(Yeah I know they were also likely waiting there for filled up carts to emerge. But it must’ve been fuckin’ cold there most of the year, so not much of a win.)
Zó veel efficiënter is dit toch niet? Hurkend neem je toch ook meer oppervlakte in dan staand?
Male privilege.
Wow, does that means Belgium also had White slaves ?
Me when the NMBS decides to send only 1/4th of my train
Tzijn weeral de allochtonen he
And this is why eventually locals stopped working the mines and even chose poverty and homelessness over mine work. Which caused the Belgian and Italian government to set up a migration scheme for mine work.
Yooo my grandmothers uncle lost him arm in that mine.
Vroeger was alles beter!
We’re actually doing a play about the belgian mines, more specifically about the italian immigration but still I enjoy to see this here ^^
Reminds me of the slave labour in Qatar!!!
Reposts all the way down.
At that time the workers were Italians?
I’d say there’s about 1700 in this picture, but 1900 is not a bad guess. Let’s just agree there’s a lot of people stuffed in a small space.
I work in security systems. We have a large nursing house in Quaregnon as client, in the middle of the slag heaps.
During a visit on site, I was surprised to enter a large technical room with the same temperature as outside, a huge grid on the wall and another 3m diameter grid on the ground. Quite unusual.
The grid on the ground is called « le bouchon » (the cork) and its a 3x3m steel meshed tube anchored on the top of the former main mine shaft which is… around 800m deep.
The external grid/vent is an air intake in case of a collapse deep inside the mine so that the external is sucked inside instead of the building…
Quite amazing the amount of people living above a giant Swiss cheese that just ask to collapse!
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