Forges de Clabecq iron foundry

Last friday i took a look at the Forges de Clabecq iron foundry.
The factory is being demolished, but a huge part still is there.

The closing of this factory in 1997 was a real disaster for all the thousands of people which worked there.

More pictures at the website.

Gr, Bart
www.urban-travel.org

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Fantastic site, bartje. Very interesting construction and machinery plus superb pics, of course. Cheers.

Excellent stuff bartje. I'd love to know how you do it! I love old machinery and this fits the bill for me.
There is very little stuff like that left over here - close to me we had the steelworks at Consett. I never got to see the site before it was demolished (thank you Mrs Thatcher ) and nowadays I pass through the place on a regular basis. I can only wonder at how it looked. I guess this set of pics shows just that. Thank you for sharing them with us.

Echoing the others Bartje, another fantastic explore, your website is suberb also, really like the old car dump set of photos

Unreal site. I can't get over the machinery that is still there. Amazing pics, nice one

Great find, I love how all the machinery looks kind of giant! I love taking/looking at photo's of decaying stuff like this.

Great stuff Bartje, this is on the cards for August time. It's still looking good

is the other section still live? we ventured very close to it........ also its wierd how the houses across from



can see you as you are so close to them LOL

me and zippy got waved at by some woman taking her shopping in or something haha