Greased Otters Tour – Page 2

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Explore #213: Star Trek Chapel aka Chapelle des Mineurs, Belgium – August 2017

July 19, 2018

Explore #5 of ‘The Greased Otters Tour’. After our epic and exhausting explore of HFX steel works we decided that we would spent our final day of the trip doing a number of smaller and lower key sites en route to our eurotunnel crossing. First up on Day Three was this gorgeous little chapel, which had been on my map for years but I’d somehow never quite got around to visiting – I’m glad I finally did! History Construction of…

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Explore #212: HFX Blast Furnaces and Steel works, Hayange / Florange, France – August 2017

July 16, 2018

Adam X

France, Industrial & Commercial Sites, Recommended Reports - some selected highlights

Explore #4 of the ‘Greased Otters Tour’ Day Two was the centrepiece explore of our long weekend – the other sites we had lined up were all great in their own ways, but this one was an absolute beast – a huge decomissioned steel works which once boasted no fewer than six blast furnaces… History (translated and rewritten from here and here) The presence of iron ore in the region was exploited back to Roman times, if not earlier. The…

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Explore #211: The Rust Garden, Belgium – August 2017

July 13, 2018

Adam X

Belgium, Industrial & Commercial Sites

Explore #3 of the ‘Greased Otters Tour’ Next up was a relatively quick look around the remains of a rusting coking plant… History I don’t know a huge amount about this site, other than that it apparently formed part of the vast Arcelor Mittal (formerly Cockerill Sambre) owned Haut Fourneau 6 (HF6) steelworks. The blast furnace was demolished a couple of years ago, but this part clings on amongst the razor wire and overgrowth… Our Explore This was another relatively…