and the D163 roads. Work on Mine 8 at Auchy-les-Mines began by the Compagnie des mines de Béthune in July 1891, and the mine was opened in November 1893...
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present-day "Chemin brûlé." In 1852 the first site explored by the Compagnie des mines de Béthune was near the village of Bully. The land was poorly wooded...
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department was long dependent on mining, primarily the coal mines near the town of Lens, Pas-de-Calais where coal was discovered in 1849. However, since...
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Vermelles (redirect from Vermelles, Pas-de-Calais)
Vermelles was the second extraction site used by the Compagnie des mines de Béthune. Excavation of Mine 3 in Vermelles began in January 1857, reaching a rugged...
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and the D58. Excavation of the 640 metres (2,100 ft) Mine 11 at Grenay by the Compagnie des mines de Béthune began in October 1904. Excavation of the 749...
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Loos-en-Gohelle (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
resulted in a very rapid increase of population. Coal was mined here by the Compagnie des mines de Béthune from 1855 until 1946, and by its nationalized successor...
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Sains-en-Gohelle (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
The A26 autoroute passes through the town. Excavation of Mine 10 by the Compagnie des mines de Béthune started in July 1900 at Sains-en-Gohelle, and eventually...
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Raymond Couvègnes (category Prix de Rome for sculpture)
December 1985. His father was Emile Couvègnes, a director of the "Compagnie des chemin de fer du Nord" and a military historian. He showed an early talent...
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Mazingarbe (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
than 800 people before the opening by the Compagnie des mines de Béthune, in 1859, of the first coal mine, No. 2. Pits No. 6 (1876) and No. 7 (1877)...
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Annequin (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
D61 and the N41 roads. Excavation of Mine 9 by the Compagnie des mines de Béthune began at Annequin in 1893. Mine 9 began production in 1896, ventilated...
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Hénin-Beaumont (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
2 December 1918. The town hall was rebuilt in 1925. In 1928, La Compagnie des Mines de Dourges built the church of Sainte-Marie for the miners. The church...
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Bruay-la-Buissière (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
D57 and the N47 roads. With four coal mines, it was the headquarters of the Bruay Mining Company. The coal mines closed during the 1960s, to be replaced...
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Le Touquet (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
Saudemont give about the same proportions as to where the mines were located. More than half of the mines were found in the dunes, the airport or the horse racecourse...
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Neuville-Saint-Vaast (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
March 1916, the New Zealand Tunnelling Company relieved the French 7/1 compagnie d'ingénieurs territoriaux in the "Labyrinth" sector of the Western Front...
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