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Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin
The site is a striking landscape, the product of three centuries of coal mining from the 18th to the 20th century, and consists of 109 separate parts covering 120,000 hectares. The site features mining pits (the oldest of which date back to 1850) and lift infrastructure, slag heaps (some covering 90 hectares and reaching heights of over 140 metres), coal transport infrastructure, railway stations, workers’ estates and mining villages, including social settlements, schools, religious buildings, health and community facilities, company premises, houses for owners and managers, a town hall, etc. The site bears witness to the quest to create a model workers’ city from the mid-19th century to the 1960s, and further illustrates an important period in the history of European industrialisation. It documents the living conditions of workers and the worker solidarity it aroused.
Historic Town of St George and Related Fortifications, Bermuda
Founded in 1612, the town of St. George is an outstanding example of the earliest English urban settlement in the New World. Its associated fortifications vividly demonstrate the development of English military engineering from the 17th to the 20th centuries, adapted to the development of artillery during this period.