La Louviere (BE)

La Louvière (pronunciation: ​[la lu.vjɛʁ], Walloon: El Lovire) is a Walloon town and municipality (80,637 inhabitants end 2017) located in the Belgian province of Hainaut. La Louvière's municipality includes the old communes of Haine-Saint-Paul, Haine-Saint-Pierre, Saint-Vaast, Trivières, Boussoit, Houdeng-Aimeries, Houdeng-Gœgnies, Maurage, and Strépy-Bracquegnies. La Louvière is the capital of the Centre region, a former coal mining area in the sillon industriel, between the Borinage to the West and the Pays Noir to the East.

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Postal history before 1910

The LA LOUVIERE post office opened on 1 October 1850. It used a Perception code 68 on 1 December 1850 with vertical bars (before 1864), and 204 with points before 1874. LA LOUVIERE (CENTRE) and (STATION) opened on 17 April 1902; R. DE LA POTERIE on 4 December 1906. HAINE-SAINT-PIERRE office opened on 6 February 1867. It used 122 with points before 1874. HOUDENG-GOUGNIES office opened on 15 April 1872. It used 437 with points. HOUDENG on 26 May 1896. TRIVIERES on 7 February 1905. MAURAGE on 10 November 1905.

Postmarks after 1950

Postal codes 7100, 7110

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Slogan cancels (all periods)

Slogan cancel La Louviere 1970.

Meter cancels (all periods)

Meter cancel La Louvière 1990. Usines Gustave Boël, or UGB, was a steel works located in La Louvière. After 2016 it is NLMK La Louvière.

Baudouin period

Railway frame in 1953.

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Haine St. Pierre

Postal code: 7100 (7160 in 1969)

Railway station HAYETTES in 1951.

Haine St. Pierre in 1960.

Haine St. Pierre in 1964.

Postmarks before 1950

Leopold III period

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Albert I period

In 1919

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Leopold II period

LA LOUVIERE in 1892.

Leopold I period

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Covers

Cover from HOUDENG-GOEGNIES to Paris in 1873. Auction image.

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