guided tour of the Sarazin underground quarry

Name: guided tour of the Sarazin underground quarry
Start: 2020-09-19T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2020-09-20T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Carrière Sarazin

This underground quarry with access by 18 m ladder has remained "in its own right" since the end of the activity around 1935\. Equipment and tools are still in place underground

19 and 20 September 2020Passed

Conditions

Guided tour of the underground quarry on registration € 5 per person (from 7 years). provide gloves, hat or charlotte, warm clothing (12°C underground). claustrophobic or vertigo-prone people refrain.

Registration

06 31 97 23 63

carrières patrimoine

Exhibition on the quarry and old photographs accessible to all on the ground floor, piles of the winch. Guided tour of the underground quarry, about 3/4 hour; descent by fixed ladders, in groups of 8 maxi, safe descent with harnesses and helmets provided. Underground demonstration of the operation of trucks, turntables, winches and testing of extraction tools (needles and lances).

About the location

Carrière Sarazin

Chemin de Longpré - 60123 Éméville

Oise
Hauts-de-France

Winch with engine and Career(Quarry) Sarazin are witnesses(batons) unusually preserved from the golden age of the stone, before the systematic mechanisation of the extraction of the stone in careers(quarries). The site is under way of restoration(catering) by the volunteers of the association Careers Heritage.