Category: Culture of Industry

The beauty of the industrial scene

May 27, 2025 Culture of Industry Post a Comment

Boulevard of broken dreams

Two mine shafts as a reminder of the mining past


“I left all my dreams and hopes
Buried under tobacco leaves
It’s not always easy kicking someone out
Gotta wait a while—it can be an unpleasant task
Sometimes somebody wants you to give something up
And tears or not, it’s too much to ask”

(Bob Dylan in Floater (Too Much to Ask))
Houthalen-Helchteren (B)

January 1, 2025 Culture of Industry Post a Comment

This is where ships are eaten


“In some unused lagoon, some nameless bay,
On sluggish, lonesome waters, anchor’d near the shore,
An old, dismasted, gray and batter’d ship, disabled, done,
After free voyages to all the seas of earth, haul’d up at last and
hawser’d tight,
Lies rusting, mouldering.”

(Walt Whitman in The dismantled ship)
Liège (B)

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