Description
Towns visited
Râches - Anhiers - Lallaing - Flines-lez-Râches - Faumont - Raimbeaucourt - Roost-Warendin
Starting point
Arkéos Park Museum
4401, route de Tournai - Douai
What to see
Leisure activities:
- Arkéos Park Museum
Heritage:
- Headframe of Anhiers
- Headframe of Roost
Nature:
- Germignies-South spoil heap
- Germignies-North spoil heap
- ‘Mer de Flines’ fishing lake
- Aumône wood
- Lains and Pont Pinet nature reserve
- Terrils of Escarpelle and Pâturelles
Local Food and Drink
Ferme Sibile
Ferme Saintenoy/Dejæger
Ferme du Bray
Les Escargots fermiers
Ferme des Thuyas
Ferme Delattre
Ferme Guittard
Ferme de Germignies
La ferme Tondeur Parmentier (Flines)
Mining headframes
In the mining industry, the headframe is the above ground structure used to hoist miners and machinery as well as the mined material, via a lift shaft.
The headframe consists of several elements: winding gear, a shaft collar, structural supports, ventilation equipment, access stairs and the steel structure around the shaft.
Headframes are closely associated with coal mining in France. Despite the closure of almost all the coalfields in France (except for slate and salt deposits), many headframes have been preserved and even classified as historical monuments. Standing as poignant symbols of the Industrial Revolution and the economic development of entire regions.