Eméville winch, visit of the Sarazin Quarry

Name: Eméville winch, visit of the Sarazin Quarry
Start: 2022-09-17T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Treuil d'Eméville, 60123 Eméville

Visit of the winch of Emeville and of the "Carrieres Sarazin", underground quarry, operated from 1920 to 1935, the quarry remained in its juice with the equipment: tracks Decauville

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

5 € for the underground tour, free for those under 12 years, registration by phone or sms to organize the visits by groups. Be in good physical condition, not prone to vertigo or claustrophobia

Registration

06 31 97 23 63

carrières patrimoine

This old quarry is characteristic of the extraction of stone between the two wars, during the period of reconstruction following the demolitions of the first world war: modern by the winch allowing the reassembly of the blocks and the transport by automobile truck on the surface and the underground railway, but traditional by the method of manual extraction of the blocks with the lance. Visit of the site on the surface: exhibition, the old winch of winding stone blocks. Guided underground tour (3/4 hour/ 1 hour), descent by ladders and intermediate levels, visitors will be provided with rope and harness for descent to 18 m underground. Geology, the Decauville underground railway and loading ramps, demonstration of extraction of blocks, presentations and tests of hand tools and equipment abandoned around 1935.

About the location

Treuil d'Eméville, 60123 Eméville

Oise
Hauts-de-France

The Winch of Eméville, last winch of quarry not destroyed in the Valois, was used to raise the stones extracted in the underground quarry (Sarazin quarry), 20m under the fields.