La Grande Famille Canivet

Bernissart – Day oh the patrimony

BERNISSART – Days of the Patrimony 2006

We are in August, 1782 for Bernissart, a curious hatches called pump to fire had just been moved by the Forest of Bon-Secours, quite close.
The purpose: to help the minors to overcome in-rushes of water to reach the coal-bed, brief, to open the way of Industrial revolution.

What looked like this first steam engine?
How did it arrive there? That did it make previously next to small collieries in full Forest of Bon-Secours? Which was the role of Duke de Cröy in this adventure?.

You will discover it on the occasion of the Days of the Patrimony these September 9 and 10 to Bernissart.

The organizers suggest discovering the vestiges of the most ancient mining building of continental Europe, the Machine to fire (or HOUSE CANIVEZ) and leaving on the archaeological tracks of these first collieries and the mining equipments, precursors of the big modern sites.

You will be so plunged for the period underestimated with the general public: the dawn of Industrial revolution.

For the occasion you will also be able to discover reconstructions in real size of certain mining equipments of 18-th century, notably impressive pendulum of the pump with fire.