A building dating from 1852 still remains of this old mining estate, now the academy of music. The miner poet, Jules Mousseron (1868-1943) used to live here.

The estate is composed of groups of around twenty dwellings.

The landscape of the Nord region is naturally flat but modified somewhat by slag heaps, some as much as 100m high. Since they fell into disuse, they have been developed in other ways: trees have been planted or sports equipment installed so that peop..

Some of the houses are grouped around bread ovens.