SCPA LABFor “undisciplined” children, who could not be placed, the Association for the P
SCPA LABFor “undisciplined” children, who could not be placed, the Association for the Protection of Child Martyrs opened this peasant school in 1912, “Ferme école Jules Lejeune”, so named in memory of its protector. The aim was to build a peasant school in these buildings for 40 boys and a domestic science school for the same number of girls, but due to the rapid increase in the number of children, the facilities soon proved to be insufficient.In 1920 the domestic science school was transferred to a neighboring municipality. From then on, the farm school was used exclusively to help and educate orphaned or abandoned boys. The children received a horticultural and agricultural education, two subjects that were very well-known and extensively taught in this city. In 1957, the state bought the site to turn it into an agricultural physics and chemistry station. The Station de Chimie et de Physique Agricole (SCPA) was part of the independent research institution known as the Faculté Universitaire des Sciences Agronomiques de Gembloux. Since 2009, this institution has been directly dependent on the University of Liège. The research station itself consisted mainly of offices and chemical, microbiological and even nuclear laboratories. They were all intended for agricultural research and for studying the environmental factors that affect agriculture. The building was vacated in 2004 and the facilities moved to Gembloux. On October 7, 2020, a permit was issued for the demolition of the chemical-physical station and the construction of a residential complex of 58 apartments, a ground floor with trade and services and 65 underground parking spaces… -- source link
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