tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29963761032569518172024-02-02T23:51:57.591+00:00Lion Salt WorksLion Salt Works - restoration of the historic brine salt making site near Northwich.Cheshire West and Chesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07816635430716786257noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2996376103256951817.post-33914719043907850402014-07-11T14:36:00.000+01:002014-07-11T14:36:18.198+01:00July 2014 - The work nears completion<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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As people pass the Lion Salt Works they get brief views of the restored buildings. Entering the final months of the restoration the buildings are taking form on both the interior and exterior of the salt works. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking across the Ollershaw Lane Flash, the salt works can be seen in the distance</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Crossing the bridge over the Trent and Mersey canal, drivers catch a glimpse of the restored Stove Houses 2 and 3</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The exterior of the salt works along Ollershaw Lane is still clad in fencing</td></tr>
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The restoration work within the historic core of pan and stove houses is all but complete with the final touches being undertaken at the present time.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stove House 3, the walkway to Pan House 3</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The interior warehouse of Stove House 3 is complete</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Glass panels allow visual access to the level below where salt would have been passed up the hatches</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Pan House 4, the lean-to cover is clad in corrugated tin<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Pan House 4, the pan and trusses are complete<br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stove House 4, the interior warehouse stills contains the crushing machine</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A newly inserted walkway gives access through the Packing Area from Stove House 4 to Stove House 2</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stove House 2, interior is complete</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Loading Bay has been begun with a new platform acting as a fire escape</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A fire escape has been built from the Packing Area and Stove House 3</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">The final panels are added to the Link Bridge</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">The Loading Bay and Link Bridge are almost complete</td></tr>
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<b style="text-align: center;">The Red Lion Inn</b></div>
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The Red Lion Inn will act as the museum and education suite. It is currently being modernised to allow access to all.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Red Lion Inn, the disabled lift and access give access to the education suite</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red Lion Inn, ground floor museum, the walls have been plastered</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red Lion Inn, First Floor, the education suite is progressing</td></tr>
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The areas around the main salt works contain a number of buildings. All of these required some restoration and alteration to make them suitable for full access. They also require landscaping to provide a car park and visitor access.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Pump House, the roof is repaired</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The exterior of the Pump House is complete and an access ramp constructed</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Disabled access has been added to the Manager's House</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">The Manager's House, the interior panels have been removed to treat the area for damp</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stove House 5, the road and open spaces around the building are complete</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A pathway leads from the canal up to Stove House 5</td></tr>
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<b>Stove House 5</b></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Stove House 5 acts as both cafe and visitor's centre, and a new conference facility on the first floor. The final touches have been put to the building in the last few days. The Link Bridge, newly built replacing the original allows access between Stove House 5 and the Historic Core.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Members of the Manage+ European Funding Team and Councillor Stuart Parker stand outside the completed Stove House 5. Money from Manage+ helped fund the new conference facility.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The new visitor's cafe and entrance</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The conference facility on the first floor</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Link Bridge between Stove House 5 and the Historic Core takes shape</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The new disabled lift access is fitted to the Red Lion Inn</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The lift shaft and emergency exit to the Red Lion Inn</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The roofs of the Historic Core</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking North over the Adelaide Flash with the restored Historic Core in the foreground</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;">The Stove House 2 floor has begun to be repaired</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Internal repairs of the Stove House 2 floor</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A set of workman's clogs were discovered below the floorboards</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The last of the repairs on the exterior of Stove House 2</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stove House 5 across the remains of Pan 2</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Pan 5 has sat on a temporary scaffold for the last 5 years, ready to be lifted back into place</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pan 5 is lifted into place</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pan 5 sits on several steel girders</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pan 5 in position</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The new path layout is established to the entrance of Stove House 5</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The entrance to Stove House 5 is now in place</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Link Bridge, between Stove House 5 and the Historic Core is beginning to be built</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Loading Bay repairs have begun</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The last of the repairs on the Pump House chimney have been completed</td></tr>
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Chris Hewitsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07548307516340339056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2996376103256951817.post-49204907500101980532014-04-16T15:49:00.002+01:002014-04-16T15:49:46.873+01:00April 2014 Update: A Tour through the Museum<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="text-align: left;">The museum experience is beginning to take shape. For the first time the route the visitor takes through the Lion Salt Works can be seen. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The entrance foyer in Stove House 5</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cloak rooms and toilets to the rear</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A cafe with views to Pan 5 outside</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From Stove House 5 the visitor walks down via Stove House 4 and Pan House 4 to the Red Lion Inn</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The visitor will be able to visit the museum displays in the Red Lion Inn...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From the Red Lion Inn, the visitor passes into Pan House 3</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lift and stairs give access to all</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pan 3, surrounded by a balustrade</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The walkway passes over the flues</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...or passes north into Stove House 3</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The walkway gives a circular route around the stove houses</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...with stairs into the warehouses</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From the warehouse of Stove House 3, the visitor passes into Stove House 4</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Museum displays will be present in Stove House 4...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...with views of the crushing machine</td></tr>
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Chris Hewitsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07548307516340339056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2996376103256951817.post-72859283552471161782014-03-05T08:42:00.000+00:002014-03-05T08:42:18.846+00:00March 2014 - A Winter of Transformation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A winter of hard work and the buildings and site are beginning to be transformed...</td></tr>
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<b style="text-align: center;">Stove House 5</b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The scaffold has been removed from the exterior of Stove House 5</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stove House 5 is visible from Stove House 2</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The new emergency walkway and details of the steel girder supports replicating those around the original building</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dawn through the windows of Stove House 5</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The ground floor foyer of Stove House 5 takes shape</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A lick of paint</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The original beams recovered from Stove House 5 have been reused in the upstairs conference facility</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><b>The Historic Core - South</b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The entrance to Pan House 3 is revealed for the first time</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The roofs are on the buildings in the historic core</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The curving side of Stove House 4 carefully rebuilt is revealed when the scaffold is removed</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The new stairways and walkways have been built to allow pedestrian access to the historic core</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The new stairway onto the hurdles in Pan House 3</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New metal railings have been put around Pan 3</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The railings continue across the flues at the end of Pan 3</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The scaffold has been removed from Stove House 4 Warehouse and the protected crusher revealed, the floor has been relayed</td></tr>
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<b>Historic Core - North</b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The buildings in the Historic Core North are beginning to come together</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Loading Bay area is cleared</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New steel feet are added to the existing posts</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The architect, structural engineer and site managers discuss repairs to the lanterns on Stove House 2 roof</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The eastern face of Stove House 2 above Pan 2 has been repaired</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Work begins on the interior alteration to the Red Lion Inn to convert it to the museum</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">During the excavation for the utilities remains of the fishery pans have been revealed and carefully excavated by Oxford Archaeology North</td></tr>
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House 5 is being transformed from an empty shell into a working, functioning
building. As the scaffold has been removed the distinct form of the building is
visible for the first time since it was dismantled four years ago in 2009. The
weather-board cladding of the upper surfaces contrasts with the re-used
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The summer months are behind us now and the nights have begun to draw in. The first flurries of rain and autumn showers are passing overhead.<br />
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Progress at the Lion Salt Works has been steady since July. The first few buildings are nearing completion.<br />
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<b>Pan House 3 and 4</b><br />
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Pan House 4 saw its roof replaced. <br />
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<span style="text-align: left;"> The internal scaffold has been removed to reveal the open pan once more for the first time in over a year.</span></div>
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The finishing touches have been put to Pan House 3<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The roof is put back on Pan House 3</td></tr>
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<b>Stove House 3</b><br />
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The roof has been stripped and work has begun replacing the boards that lay underneath where they had rotted.<br />
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Stove House 4 has seen the completion of the supporting structural steelwork. The original steel roof frame has been repaired where it had begun to rust.<br />
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Stove House 5 is almost watertight.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stove House 5</td></tr>
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The roof is now complete.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The ridge of Stove House 5 looking east</td></tr>
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Glazing of the eastern wall with its views along the Trent and Mersey Canal has begun.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The glazed eastern wall</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The ground floor where the entrance foyer will be situated</td></tr>
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<b>The Pump House and Manager's Office</b><br />
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Work has begun to repair the fabric of the Pump House and the Manager's House.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Pump House repairs begin</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The boards are taken off the windows and repairs begin on the Manager's House</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John and Andy take in the repaired Pan House 4</td></tr>
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Chris Hewitsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07548307516340339056noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2996376103256951817.post-91587583164357046822013-07-31T11:02:00.000+01:002013-08-15T08:57:05.043+01:00End July 2013 - Progress<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The old roofs of asbestos had to be removed. These have been
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core of buildings real change can be seen as the roofs have been removed and
timber repairs undertaken. Elsewhere, the newly rebuilt Stove House 5 has shot
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The original flues that ran under the pan into the stove
house (See Building a Pan House and building a Stove House <a href="http://thelionsaltworks.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/how-tobuild-open-pan-salt-works.html">http://thelionsaltworks.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/how-tobuild-open-pan-salt-works.html</a>) had collapsed.
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in the late-1960s. This involved the insertion of an automated salt scraping
and drying mechanism. Although not unique, (systems like this were built in
Winsford), it was highly unusual as salt had begun to be made by the Vacuum
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2009, in order that it could be entirely rebuilt as the new visitor and
conference centre. This adopted the original location and plan but had a new
concrete base (see March Update <a href="http://thelionsaltworks.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/march-2013-foundations-and-wall-repairs.html">http://thelionsaltworks.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/march-2013-foundations-and-wall-repairs.html</a>). <o:p></o:p></div>
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panelling throughout. The framework was built of steel off-site and brought to
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open-pan salt works in Northwich developed along the line of the Trent and
Mersey Canal. Initially the Alliance Works and the early Lion Salt Works relied
on the canal network to transport salt along the canal to the Anderton Boat
Lift and down the River Weaver. Photographs show salt being loaded onto canal
barges outside the Lion Salt Works in the late-19</span><sup style="text-align: justify;">th</sup><span style="text-align: justify;"> century.</span><br />
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The works had its own fleet of
narrowboats which shuttled back and forth along the Trent and Mersey Canal
between the works and the Anderton Boat Lift carrying 30 ton consignments of
salt to the waiting Weaver Flats and barges. Their names were Duke, Earl,
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larger barges that ran along the River Weaver. Buried remains of salt chutes
form part of the Scheduled Monument of the Anderton Boat Lift (SM no. 1021152).
These would be used to transport salt directly into the waiting barges below.
The Thompson’s also owned a fleet of Mersey Salt Barges including the Herald of
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The 19<sup>th</sup> century maps suggest
that coal was delivered to the open pans of the Alliance Works from a private
basin. Likewise coal was delivered directly into the earliest Lion Salt Works
from the canal. Coal could be directly delivered from the canal to Pan House 1.
In addition a tunnel ran from the canal into the centre of the works. The
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The works also relied on the rail
network in parallel with the canal. Salt was transported from the Alliance
Works to the main rail network via a series of tramways. These tramways ran to
the Marston Hall Mine (north-west of the LSW), The Adelaide (Open-Pan) Works (north
of the Trent and Mersey Canal) and The Alliance Works which developed a series
of sidings that ran into the centre of the works. From here the tramway snaked
around and joined sidings in Northwich on the main Chester – Manchester line
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After the Alliance Works closed
in <i>c. </i>1900, new sidings were put in
place that served the Lion Salt Works. They ran around the southern boundary of
the site and finished in front of Pan House 3 and 4. The sidings were not
designed for trains to use but were instead designed for salt wagons that were
brought up to the works by a series of winches from the mineral railway that
served the Marston Mine. The wagons used to wait in a sidings at the bottom end
of Cross Street (the house today is called The Sidings). <o:p></o:p></div>
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A single windlass is still visible in the Pump House. This was powered
by the steam engine in the pump house and drew the wagons up the gradual
incline from the end of Cross Street. A series of pulleys and couplings are
likely to have allowed the carriages to negotiate the twisting route of the
siding.<o:p></o:p><b><i></i></b></div>
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Two types of wagons operated at the works. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><b>Open roofed coal wagons</b>. See picture. These brought coal
directly to the barricades of the pan houses where it was unloaded ready
for use in the stoves.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><b>Covered salt wagons</b>. The salt wagons were covered in order to
protect the salt from rain. The pitched-roofed variety dates to the 1900s.
Later salt wagons after the 1940s had roofs that were barrelled.<o:p></o:p></li>
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the works but was brought to the site by the Lion Salt Works Trust in the 1990s.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The van was probably built in
Wakefield in c. 1900 by Charles Roberts and Co. The remains of painted
lettering on the side of the van show that it was originally part of a fleet
owned by Chance and Hunt Ltd of Oldbury, Wednesbury and Stafford. The company
was absorbed by Brunner Mond and Co Ltd in 1917 before being taken over by ICI
Ltd in 1927. The remains of ICI lettering are still visible overwriting the
original lettering. Previous surveys (1991) have noted that it is possible to
see the words [repairs advise] and [Winsford]. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCAw32SjTgrzyUe9zL3ne8tGzVAksKHKDWjkdPatIoAQijdHUjvDfCd2yBf5Yw-1C1l9WgAV87YBsNyzLwK2U9ZZpQYEeDJZf5fIVWiGtLKD5jE_5k4kpXKcjsE-nBpd1sDpzAAWsFMvg/s1600/LSW+photo+collection+252.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCAw32SjTgrzyUe9zL3ne8tGzVAksKHKDWjkdPatIoAQijdHUjvDfCd2yBf5Yw-1C1l9WgAV87YBsNyzLwK2U9ZZpQYEeDJZf5fIVWiGtLKD5jE_5k4kpXKcjsE-nBpd1sDpzAAWsFMvg/s320/LSW+photo+collection+252.jpg" width="320" /></a>At the end of its working life it remained at
ICI sidings in Northwich until 1977. It then passed into the hands of the
Conway and Llanrwst Railway Society, North Wales. In 1987 members of the
Foxfield Light Railway helped transfer the van from Dyserth Quarry to
Blaenau-Ffestiniog, where it formed part of a private collection belonging to
Mr R Morris. The wagon was brought to the Lion Salt Works in September 1991 and
has remained on the private railway sidings since.<o:p></o:p></div>
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During the final years salt was taken directly from the works
to the docks at Liverpool using road transport. Vans would back up to loading
bay beside Stove House 4. Salt would be packed directly from Stove House 4, the
Packing Area and Stove House 2 into the vans. This was how the Lagos Salt was
exported.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chris Hewitsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07548307516340339056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2996376103256951817.post-23424236215848942982013-05-16T15:32:00.001+01:002013-05-16T15:58:23.904+01:00How to...Process and Package Salt<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><i>The Crushing Machine<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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The crushing machine was
originally located in the warehouse of Stove House 2 at the north of the site.
It was powered by a steam engine that sat on a brick base outside the stove
house. The steam engine in turn was powered by steam from the boiler in the
Engine House/ Brine Tank. It probably dates to around c. 1900 when Stove House
2 was built.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The crushing machine was moved to
Stove House 4 when it was rebuilt in 1956. Henry Thompson the final owner and
manager of the works recalled in 2009 how he dismantled and rebuilt the crushing
machine in its new location.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When it was rebuilt it was
powered by an electric motor sat on a stand east of the crushing machine. This
powered a series of two belts and wheels.
A large flywheel mounted on the northern side allowed the motion of the
belts to be continued. All the mechanisms within the work were powered from
this individual mechanism. <o:p></o:p></div>
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A series of cogs powered the
internal mechanism. These were a 30 cog, 28 cog, 74 cog gears on the northern
side (see north elevation) and two series of 28 cog gears on the southern side
(see south elevation). This powered the
internal crushing mechanism.</div>
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<i>Bucket Lift<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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A belt ran to an upper wheel on
the southern side that powered the chain lift that raised the salt buckets on
the western side. These brought blocks of salt from the flue level of the stove
house and deposited them automatically in the central crushing mechanism.</div>
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toothed/ hooked barrels that turned towards each other crushing the blocks of
salt. The lower mechanism had paddles that separated the crushed salt into four
individual chute. The salt ran down the chutes and was bagged at the bottom.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i>Why was the salt crushed?<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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Two sorts of salt were produced in the work. Fine and Coarse
Salt (see salt science). It was the blocks of fine salt that were placed in the
buckets and crushed. <o:p></o:p><br />
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Some salt was sold as blocks whilst others were crushed.
This was part of the marketing of the salt. Some salt was sold in small blocks
like loaves of bread and were not crushed. This type of block salt was common
throughout the 19<sup>th</sup> and early 20<sup>th</sup> century. It continued
to be popular in the later 20<sup>th</sup> century in the Cheshire region where
housewives continued to prefer the block salt. These blocks were cut up by a
series of saw blades (see the cutting machines below). <o:p></o:p></div>
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The blocks allowed salt to be preserved for longer in damp
households. Salt hardens when it is in damp air and granular salt will usually
harden into a block. If the salt was bought in block form a small amount could
be removed and used as and when needed. This was usually crushed using a rolling
pin. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The blocks would also be crushed to provide ready-made
granular salt. The salt produced in blocks from the fine pans would be suitable
for the table and would often be sold in sacks ready for repacking as table
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The salt that was sold to Africa known as Lagos Salt was
crushed prior to sale. It was not the block salt produced in the fine pans but
was salt from the warehouses that were crushed from its hardened state prior to
sale.<o:p></o:p></div>
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circular saws to cut the block salt into smaller blocks that were sold in
packets (like loafs of bread). This was the traditional way salt was sold since
the 19<sup>th</sup> century. It was then crushed in the house using a rolling
pin or mortar and pestle. This practice survived into the 20<sup>th</sup>
century in Cheshire into the 1970s when local housewives preferred to buy their
salt in blocks.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">A further modern crushing machine
was located in the Packing Area. This was powered by two electric motors with
opposing ridged barrels. The salt fell onto a small conveyor belt and passed
through the wall to Stove House 4 where it was sorted through the hopper in
Crushing Machine 2.</span><br />
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<i>History of Stove House
5<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimvtG0eyJlmewyXxiUj0iqlz8s_VF71-Lg-DwP44yg9C6IgkGnMDvmtAjb_WRUQSBXHih38kY20hgzGD-KkK5ItHUrY72YokQYFawvoXieg_XKWZoyYhqXmq4Yy86Q_V85o2naltLYCN0/s1600/IMG_2871.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimvtG0eyJlmewyXxiUj0iqlz8s_VF71-Lg-DwP44yg9C6IgkGnMDvmtAjb_WRUQSBXHih38kY20hgzGD-KkK5ItHUrY72YokQYFawvoXieg_XKWZoyYhqXmq4Yy86Q_V85o2naltLYCN0/s320/IMG_2871.JPG" width="213" /></a>Stove House 5 was built in 1965 by Henry Thompson. It was
the last of the five Stove Houses to be constructed on site. The associated Pan
House 5 lay to the east. The pan and stove house began to decay badly and the
pan house entirely collapse in the 1990s. The stove house survived but a huge
gap had opened in the south-east corner and the whole complex was dismantled in
2009. <o:p></o:p><br />
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<i>The Restoration<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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As part of the restoration the stove house is being rebuilt and
will form the museum entrance and shop on the ground floor with conference
facilities on the first floor. The rebuilding of Stove House 5 involves the
excavation of the entire footprint and the pouring of a concrete raft to take
the weight of the new building.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Scheduled Monument consent requires an archaeological
excavation to be conducted before the construction of the concrete slab. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Archaeological Excavations have been undertaken in January
and February 2013 by Oxford Archaeology North. This involved the
machine excavation of an area 20m by 20m in size. The remains of brick
buildings were then cleaned by hand and then surveyed, drawn, photographed and
recorded.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>The Alliance Works<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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east of the current buildings. This was known as the Alliance Works and existed
from 1856 until 1889 when it was sold to the Salt Union. <a href="http://thelionsaltworks.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/the-lion-salt-works-history-of-site.html">http://thelionsaltworks.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/the-lion-salt-works-history-of-site.html</a> Records of the earlier salt works are limited, but excavation undertaken in
1994 identified these buildings for the first time. Earlier excavations in 2011
by Oxford Archaeology North identified the remains of flues from a Stove House. <o:p></o:p><a href="http://thelionsaltworks.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/how-tobuild-stove-house.html">http://thelionsaltworks.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/how-tobuild-stove-house.html</a></div>
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The current excavations have revealed the remains of the
boundary wall between the earlier Alliance Works and the later Lion Salt Works.
Along this boundary was a small cottage. The cottage may have been where the
Thompson’s lived and managed the earlier works. It also appears to have acted
as a pan smithy for repairing the pans of the Alliance Works. A large hearth
was located within the remains of the buildings. </div>
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In addition a large machine
pit suggests there was a steam engine north of the building. A series of
cobbles formed a yard to the west of the cottage. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>The Fishery Pans<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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‘fishery pans’ existed on the site in the early 20<sup>th</sup> century that
were replaced by Stove House 4 in the 1950s. Fishery pans – so called because
they provided coarse salt for preservation in the fishery industry [ADD LINK TO
MAKING SALT] – were much simpler and consisted of a single open pan over a
stove. Four existed on site.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Excavation revealed the foundations of one of these fishery
pans. No flues were revealed but the remains of brick piers along the edge of
the stove and the base of a further large chimney was excavated at the north of
the stove.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Stove House 5</i></div>
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Overlying the remains of the fishery pan was the brick walls
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Chris Hewitsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07548307516340339056noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2996376103256951817.post-55198074544695044022013-05-16T14:51:00.000+01:002013-05-16T14:51:30.771+01:00March 2013 - Foundations and Wall Repairs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>Repairing the pan
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salt insert link] rested on large brick bases called stoves. This was where the
fire was lit. Unfortunately the weight of the pans caused the walls of the
stoves to fall outward. Brick piers have been built along the sides of the pans
by the Thompson Family but these have not prevented the walls collapsing outwards.
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In order to repair the stoves it has been decided to
sandwich them in concrete. Slabs of concrete are built either side and then
they are held together by metal rods called cintec anchors.<o:p></o:p></div>
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These are encased in a fabric and plastic sock and
then encased in concrete themselves. Two slabs are put on either side of the
stove walls connected to the rods by metal plates. These are tightened and this
holds the walls of the structure together.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Excavating the
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The stove houses have two levels: the drying level and the
warehouse level [How to Build a Stove House insert link]. The warehouse floor
is held up by rails supported by metal columns. Unfortunately the metal columns
have corroded badly and cannot now support the floor above safely. Instead a
whole new steel superstructure will be built to compliment the earlier rails.
One of the jobs has been to build a new series of concrete strip foundations on
which the whole structure will rest. This involved excavating narrow strip
footings between the flues of the drying level.</div>
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<i>Rebuilding the
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In 2002 the wall between Stove House 3 and Stove House 1
entirely collapsed. It had been weakened by parts of the structure being
removed to make the warehouses one large space. Rain and water got into the
structure through the leaky roof and it subsequently collapsed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In order to support Stove House 3 at its northern end an
entirely new wall had to be built. This reused the footprint of the original
wall, which itself was part of a much earlier wall associated with the Red Lion
Hotel <a href="http://thelionsaltworks.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/the-lion-salt-works-history-of-site.html">http://thelionsaltworks.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/the-lion-salt-works-history-of-site.html</a>.</div>
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construction of Stove House 5. Stove House 5 was dismantled in 2009 as it was
in very poor condition. It was to be rebuilt using original materials combined
with a new steel superstructure and would act as the visitors centre and
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The first job was to build a large concrete raft designed to
take the weight of the new building. The old building had been built on very
shallow foundations and this was part of the reason why it had collapsed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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What makes up the buildings of an open pan salt works?</div>
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What does each building do?<o:p></o:p></div>
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In this part I will try to explain how an open pan salt
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<b>Brine Extraction<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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extracted from the ground by a brine shaft or bore hole. The salt would be
raised from the ground by means of a pump. But often the pressure of the
underground stream would be strong enough to lift the brine from the ground
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On the site at the Lion Salt Works we have a number of
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<b>How to extract brine from the ground?</b> [<a href="http://thelionsaltworks.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/how-toextract-brine-from-ground.html">http://thelionsaltworks.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/how-toextract-brine-from-ground.html</a>]<br />
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<b>Salt-making: The Pan
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The Pan House was where the salt was made. This involved
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<b>How to make salt by the open pan method? </b>[<a href="http://thelionsaltworks.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/how-totransport-salt.html">i</a>nsert link]<o:p></o:p></div>
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It consisted of a brick stove where fires were lit, the pan and
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<b>How to build a Pan House?</b> [<a href="http://thelionsaltworks.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/how-tobuild-pan-house.html" target="_blank">http://thelionsaltworks.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/how-tobuild-pan-house.html</a>]<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Lion Salt Works had five pan houses in the 1980s
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the works closed in 1986 and is now a garden.</span></li>
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and stove survive.</span></li>
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drying. This was a large brick building that used the heat from the stove in
the pan house to dry the salt in blocks. The upper part was a warehouse for
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<li>Stove House 1 (AKA The Link Block) – this originally connected to Pan House 1 and was one of the first built on site in the 1890s. It has almost entirely collapsed.</li>
<li>Stove House 2 survives on site next to the canal. It again dates to the 1890s. It has a timber first floor unlike all the other stove houses.</li>
<li>Stove House 3 runs next to Ollershaw Lane and dates to 1900. It is made of brick with distinctive rail tracks used to support the warehouse floor.</li>
<li>Stove House 4 was built in 1956 to replace a series of four common pans [see link].</li>
<li>Stove House 5 was built in 1965. It has been dismantled but will be rebuilt as a purpose built area of the new museum.</li>
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<b>How to build a Stove House? </b>[<a href="http://thelionsaltworks.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/how-tobuild-stove-house.html" target="_blank">http://thelionsaltworks.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/how-tobuild-stove-house.html</a>]<o:p></o:p></div>
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The warehouses were purpose built into the stove houses.
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The lower grade common salt was stored in a large store
house. The only surviving salt store on the site is the Coronation Salt Store located
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<b>How to process and package salt?</b> [<a href="http://thelionsaltworks.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/how-toprocess-and-package-salt.html">http://thelionsaltworks.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/how-toprocess-and-package-salt.html</a>]<o:p></o:p></div>
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Works was very important. The most important raw material needed apart from
brine was fuel for the stoves. This was originally coal but was changed to oil
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<b>How to transport salt?</b> [<a href="http://thelionsaltworks.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/how-totransport-salt.html">http://thelionsaltworks.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/how-totransport-salt.html</a>]<o:p></o:p></div>
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Much of January was spent excavating the base of Stove House
5. A new concrete slab was required in order to support the restored building.
This meant digging a large area 20m x 20m that was the footprint of the
building. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Good news for archaeologists as it allowed us to excavate a
large area of the earlier Alliance Salt Works <a href="http://thelionsaltworks.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/the-lion-salt-works-history-of-site.html" target="_blank">http://thelionsaltworks.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/the-lion-salt-works-history-of-site.html</a> and conduct an
excavation. This was ably undertaken by Oxford Archaeology North under the supervision
of Graham Mottershead. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p><b>Repairing the Walls
between the Pan and Stove Houses</b></div>
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and stove houses. The problem with the building was that the walls were built
on steel girders. This allowed a series of flues (tunnels) to pass from the
stoves under the pan into the drying rooms in the stove houses (See how to
build a Pan House <a href="http://thelionsaltworks.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/how-tobuild-pan-house.html" target="_blank">http://thelionsaltworks.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/how-tobuild-pan-house.html</a> and Stove House <a href="http://thelionsaltworks.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/how-tobuild-stove-house.html" target="_blank">http://thelionsaltworks.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/how-tobuild-stove-house.html</a> for details).<o:p></o:p></div>
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Unfortunately the effect of the salt on the metal meant it
corroded and the walls collapsed!!<o:p></o:p></div>
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In order to rebuild the walls and support the interior of
the stove houses a large concrete slab was inserted. This retained the interior
of the stove house and also allowed the walls to be supported.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chris Hewitsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07548307516340339056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2996376103256951817.post-80995657703390052182013-05-16T14:33:00.000+01:002013-05-16T14:35:59.680+01:00How to...Build a Stove House<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgaOjEcadhzxWiDxzUPO5i_AH812pIzuDuisonMoid0IhqZ3_5JzjjpDvj2RXl2_UowA9wfz5mUZLwBynOcNGeHimrwcle2yPiO6iUU3SnmnnrkPuuCXx79JmNkXazEquOEv-D86Z_zes/s1600/40.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgaOjEcadhzxWiDxzUPO5i_AH812pIzuDuisonMoid0IhqZ3_5JzjjpDvj2RXl2_UowA9wfz5mUZLwBynOcNGeHimrwcle2yPiO6iUU3SnmnnrkPuuCXx79JmNkXazEquOEv-D86Z_zes/s320/40.JPG" width="320" /></a>Once the salt was made in the Pan House 3/ 4, it was left to dry and then carried through to the
stove houses on open sided salt barrows by the lumpers.</div>
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<i style="text-align: left;">The Stove House</i></div>
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brick. It was built directly behind the pan house. <o:p></o:p></div>
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On the ground floor level inside
it was filled with hard concrete material to the same height as the level of
the pan. This was known as the flue level.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Above this was an open roofed
warehouse level. This was built of either wood or steel and was open to the
roof trusses.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>The flue level<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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The flue level was where the blocks
of salt were baked dried.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The stove house would have been
filled by a series of low flues. These were built of thin brick walls covered
in iron plates. The hot air would heat the iron plates on top of the flue. The
hot air from the stoves would pass under the wall between the pan house and the
stove house. From here it entered flues that ran up and down the stove houses,
with at either end a cross-flue. Between the flues were a series of lower
‘ditches’ that became filled with loose salt from the blocks. The hot air then
passed through a single opening at the end of the stove house to the chimney.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The flow of hot air was
controlled by a series of gates in front of the chimney called ‘damper plates’.
These were raised and lowered remotely by cables and pulleys connected to a weight.
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turned out into the flue level of the stove house and stacked by the lofter.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The job of the lofter was to
stack and dry the salt blocks. The salt blocks would be initially dumped onto
the ground in the ‘ditches’ between the flues. The lofter would then stack the
blocks on top of the flues like bricks to bake them dry. They would remain on
the flues for two weeks.<o:p></o:p></div>
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salt hatches. When the hatches were open they would allow the salt blocks to be
passed up to the warehouse level. The lofter would do this using a pronged tool
or by hand. He would stick these in the lump and throw them up through the salt
hatches. He would work slowly around the blocks throwing them up to the level
above. The blocks would then be processed in the warehouse above (see warehouse
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<i>The warehouse<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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was finally dried and packed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The floor of the warehouse was
held up by a series of reused railway tracks held up by cast-iron columns. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The warehouse in Stove House 3 was an open space that
originally connected directly through to warehouses in Stove House 1 and 4. The
warehouse roof was supported by a series of wooden trusses on top of wooden
posts that form an aisle. Where the
floor had become weak in, they had been patched using a series of reused boards
from the side of salt tubs.</div>
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The roof of Stove House 4, in comparison, was built entirely
of a steel frame constructed in 1956. This has been corroded by salt in places.
The warehouse was dominated by the remains of two large crushing machines (see
Crushing Machines).<o:p></o:p></div>
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The warehouse was traditionally where the women worked. They
operated the crushing machines. They also packed the salt in sacks and
packages.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The pan house was the area where
the salt was produced in the open pan. They contained the stove and the ferrous
metal pan.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i>Construction <o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDJWiKL7EHoCSsgxFaKczer0OrdtW0x2BPMsqBWVZDHaP0RFI5xu0l2R5xuV0-NnBbyMa1sxLYQ1eci_8SlT5rAmKWA9OvPHkqtgDxZmUAYVs-pYZT5dgnNi-H427cPgT8qy9DKZvaRwY/s1600/PH3-E-01.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="137" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDJWiKL7EHoCSsgxFaKczer0OrdtW0x2BPMsqBWVZDHaP0RFI5xu0l2R5xuV0-NnBbyMa1sxLYQ1eci_8SlT5rAmKWA9OvPHkqtgDxZmUAYVs-pYZT5dgnNi-H427cPgT8qy9DKZvaRwY/s200/PH3-E-01.bmp" width="200" /></a>The pan houses were predominantly
made of wooden timber. The timber did not react to the salt steam and would not
decompose. The timbers become impregnated with salt over time. <o:p></o:p></div>
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consisted of a low brick ‘sill’ wall with a wooden wall above of long vertical
timbers clad in horizontal planks.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The fronts of the pans were originally
open with a wooden cover over the stoves known as a ‘caboose’. This allowed an
open-air area for the men to feed the stoves with coal. The pans were altered
in the 1970s and are now closed in.<o:p></o:p></div>
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roofs but originally had sloped hipped roofs. They were covered with corrugated
asbestos, but originally they would have been felted. They were supported by
wooden trusses. They were open at the apex to allow steam to escape from the
pans below. The sides were covered to allow the workers some protection from
the weather.</div>
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structures <i>c.</i> 15m in length by <i>c.</i> 8m wide and the sides were about 0.5m
high. They were made of a large number of smaller metal plates welded and
riveted together. They stood on large brick stoves 2m high.</div>
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series of ferrous metal pipes. These ran from the brine tank underground and
emerged in the pan houses. The pipes turned and then passed into the top of the
pan. The pipes were fed by gravity, the brine tank was at a higher level than
the pans. A series of taps allowed the control of the brine to different areas
of the site.</div>
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When the boil was finished the
excess brine would be drained from the corner of the pan via a hole known as
the ‘Cotter Hole’. The brine drained directly into the ditches that ran down
the side of the stove (see below). <o:p></o:p></div>
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several metal brackets and a series of planks known as dodging planks designed
to allow access to clean the pan. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Along the side of the pan were a
series of metal racks known as ‘salt dogs’ designed to hold the tubs as they
were filled. This allowed the brine to drain back into the pan.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The stoves were built of brick
and fueled by coal and later oil. The coal was fed into the front of the pan
via hatches by hand. See Pan House 3.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The stoves were originally fueled by coal (See Pan House 3). Coal was fed into the stove via small metal
hatches. The fires were set at the front of the stove on metal grates.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Coal</i></div>
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small wagons on an individual train track. These tracks ran along the front of
the pans and allowed coal to be stored adjacent to the stoves (see transport).
Coal was stored behind the wooden barricades, a series of horizontal planks set
on side.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Oil and the Oil Tank<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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In the 1970s the stoves were
converted to oil. The oil was stored in the large oil tank adjacent to Pan
House 4. The oil was fed into the pans via a compressor in the lean-to
structure. The oil was fed into the pans by rubberised pipes and valves set in
the front of the stoves. This was lit and hot jets of burning oil fired the
pans.</div>
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Down either side of the pan was a wooden walkway called the
‘hurdles’. It was from here the lumpmen drew the salt from the boiling pan.
This was done with a large skimmer. The salt was skimmed and turned into the
salt tubs, before drying on the pan and being turned out on the hurdle walkway.
As the pillars of salt dried, excess brine drained through the wooden hurdles
to the brick lined ditch below. These can be seen along the side of Pan House 3. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The hurdles led directly into the stove houses via two
doorways. The blocks would be wheeled into the stove houses on salt barrows.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chris Hewitsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07548307516340339056noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2996376103256951817.post-83423628605111830652013-05-16T13:29:00.002+01:002013-05-16T14:35:59.681+01:00How to....extract brine from the ground<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Salt has been produced in the
Cheshire Area for over 2000 years. This was a as a result of Cheshire’s unusual
geology which resulted in the formation of large salt deposits located beneath
the ground.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Geology<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWT3rJi5r0WUSmSPGWA0_RGESAmyGY2i4XBeI-g8MKQzX_GpBBPUZNhT_QWepd0ciLDt_rdArmJDfhLszznpqDi4FvLP5hGiVAVW4erjQBIDeUL4j7vCfF893xKQv978HE96ai-CC1yec/s1600/Winsford+and+Northwich+Salt+Fields.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWT3rJi5r0WUSmSPGWA0_RGESAmyGY2i4XBeI-g8MKQzX_GpBBPUZNhT_QWepd0ciLDt_rdArmJDfhLszznpqDi4FvLP5hGiVAVW4erjQBIDeUL4j7vCfF893xKQv978HE96ai-CC1yec/s320/Winsford+and+Northwich+Salt+Fields.JPG" width="227" /></a>The Cheshire Basin between the hills
of the Delamere Forest and the Staffordshire and Derbyshire border once formed
a large basin fed by the sea to the north. As the land levels to the north
rose, this area was cut off from the sea but was occasionally inundated with
sea water at high tides forming a large salt lake. Sedimentation and
evaporation led to deposits of salt forming between layers of soft sedimentary
rock known as marlstone.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Cheshire salt-beds lie in the
red or Triassic Keuper marls in a kind of basin comparable with an elongated
saucer with its longest axis lying in a nearly north and south direction. The
best-known and most important beds of rock salt are about the centre of this
basin, in the neighbourhoods of Northwich and Winsford located below what is
now the level of the sea.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Two beds of rock salt exist in
Northwich an upper and lower bed. These beds spread from the Northwich town
centre in the Baron Quay’s area to the north-east of Marston in an area around
two miles in diameter. Each bed is from 25.6 to 27.4m (84 to 90 feet) in
thickness at Marston and Wincham, divided from each other by 9 to 10m (30 to 33
feet) of marl and marlstone. For example salt was located at Neumann’s Mine
between 60 feet and 144 feet below Ordnance Datum in the upper bed and 174 feet
and 258 feet in the lower bed. The bottom part of the lower bed was found uniformly
to be the best quality. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Brine Springs<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7lO8OBCPS6-hd54cGkJ6EmJpsgdCux20TpFR86EQSbT2VduuIcekt_F11p7No2jc4ceBTE40aoQ-5m982MR95vX8xEcgrajo7AYHYILAFKFojeftOJFjisR0L9TsuyOeZ26iEOt21YeQ/s1600/Section+through+Marston+to+Middlewich.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7lO8OBCPS6-hd54cGkJ6EmJpsgdCux20TpFR86EQSbT2VduuIcekt_F11p7No2jc4ceBTE40aoQ-5m982MR95vX8xEcgrajo7AYHYILAFKFojeftOJFjisR0L9TsuyOeZ26iEOt21YeQ/s320/Section+through+Marston+to+Middlewich.JPG" width="320" /></a>The surface of the upper bed was
impermeable and an underground stream of water would flow across it. Where this
stream of water came close to the ground surface, at locations on the side of
the Weaver or Wheelock valleys the water would emerge as a brine spring. The
springs would look like most other springs, a small pool of water bubbling from
the ground within shallow valley locations. The difference was within the water
itself which would have been saline.<o:p></o:p></div>
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These became the first locations
for salt making in the Prehistoric and Roman periods. Brine springs denote the
locations of the Cheshire Salt towns of Northwich, Winsford, Middlewich and
Nantwich.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Salt Mining<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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In the 17th century the first of
a series of mines were begun in the Northwich region. A bed of rock salt was
discovered in 1670 by the Smith-Barry family when they were searching for coal
on the Marbury Estate, near Marston. This is believed to be the first mine sunk
for rock salt into the upper bed of salt at around 50 feet below the surface.
This resulted in the excavation of a number of ‘top rock’ mines around
Northwich. The early top rock mines resulted in subsidence in the area. <o:p></o:p></div>
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By 1779 investigation below the
upper bed of rock salt resulted in the discovery at the Marston Mine of a lower
bed of salt at a depth of around 150 feet. This was also mined for a number of
years until it began to be exhausted around 1850. During the 19th century the
mines of the Northwich district began to collapse and subsidence was
widespread.<o:p></o:p></div>
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‘tapping’ had been carried on since the 17th century. This involved the sinking
of a shaft to natural brine streams below the ground that ran over the upper
bed of salt. This was then extracted and used to make salt by the open pan salt
process. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The exhaustion of the mined rock
salt supplies resulted in a rapid expansion of the wild brine extraction
techniques. This was aided by more efficient pumps that allowed the brine to be
pumped from both the upper and lower beds. The process of brine-tapping
involved the sinking of a shaft to the brine stream, a dangerous occupation. AK
Calvert describes the process;<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>In sinking to many of the springs, the supply of brine, when cut into,
was so copious that the sinkers had to flee for their lives, ascending the
shaft among the brine, and having no opportunity of seeing what was
underneath.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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The brine was subsequently pumped
out of the ground to supply the salt works based at the surface. By the
late-19th century brine shafts and traditional open pan salt works dominated
the area around Northwich many controlled by the monopolistic Salt Union. <o:p></o:p></div>
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As the rock salt mines closed
they were inundated with water creating vast underground reservoirs of brine.
These were increasingly tapped for brine and it became increasingly common to
deliberately flood the mines to provide new sources of brine. The erosion of
the sides of the mine by the brine streams led to more and more mines
collapsing and subsidence was widespread in the Northwich area. This can be
seen by the large flashes that dominate the salt-making landscape.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chris Hewitsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07548307516340339056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2996376103256951817.post-21505204528748913122012-12-03T15:43:00.000+00:002013-05-16T11:21:06.506+01:00November 2012 - Repairing the Stove Houses and Treating the Brine Shaft<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The early winter mornings sees red sunrises to the east over
the Lostock Gralam Chemical Works.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>The repair of the stove
house walls<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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The walls of the stove houses are very narrow, normally two
bricks thick. They are fragile where the salt has damaged and removed the
mortar. In places, the Thompson’s put rigid steel joists into the wall to
reinforce them. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Not all the walls will be dismantled during the restoration.
Instead small parts will be taken down, repaired and rebuilt brick by brick. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Elsewhere the walls have bulged with the weight of ash and
cinder retained behind them in the stove houses. The ash and cinder was used to
build up the level of the flues internally to the stove house. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fixing Spiro-ties</td></tr>
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These walls are retained using spiro-ties; strips of spiral
metal designed to strengthen the individual courses of the brick-work.
Buttresses will be built to strengthen the wall.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Clearing the collapsed
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The collapsed tunnel</td></tr>
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Between the Link Block and the Packing Area were the collapsed
remains of a tunnel. This originally ran from the canal to the Red Lion Hotel
and dates to the earliest period of the Thompson’s ownership of the site in the
1890s. <o:p></o:p></div>
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At some point the tunnel was covered over with metal sheets.
These had decayed and the remains collapsed into the tunnels. This had to be
cleared in order to allow safe access to the area around the base of the chimney
in the packing area.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Treating the brine shaft<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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The former brine shaft originally dug in 1894 must be
treated in order to prevent water infiltrating the layers of salt below the
ground. The area around the brine shaft has been cleared to allow the large
drilling rig to be brought in. This involves clearing the old oil tank bases
built in the 1970s.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Fallen brine pipes were removed to storage before being placed back once work was finished.</div>
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The drilling rig sits on two large rigid steel joists.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A mixture of salt water, cement and ash is pumped into the drilled hole and this hardens and seals the brine shaft preventing further water infiltration.</div>
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Funding from the manage+ project gives the Lion Salt Works a
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for the management and operation of regenerated areas. Manage+ includes five
pilot sites formerly used for industry or military purposes in four European
countries (UK, Belgium, Netherlands and Germany) which are being converted into
business parks, greenbelt recreation areas and tourist destinations. The 10th
partner meeting was held in Chester from 28th to 30th November with delegates
from all partner countries taking part in workshops and site visits.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chris Hewitsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07548307516340339056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2996376103256951817.post-34978946363700225862012-11-09T09:13:00.002+00:002012-12-03T14:09:46.736+00:00A History of the Lion Salt Works<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>In a new part of the Lion Salt Works blogs we will look at
the history, processes and people of the Lion Salt Works and salt industry in
Cheshire in our in depth history guides. This will bring together historical
reports and the latest research where possible. The blogs will also try to
explain the different buildings and processes at the Lion Salt Works in the
easy …<b>How to</b> … guides.</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Rock salt was first exploited in
Marston in 1781, when John Gilbert the elder, notable engineer and factor to
the Duke of Bridgewater, purchased the Symme Fields for £2,000. He developed
the Marston Mine, to the west of the later Lion Salt Works site, by sinking a
300ft deep shaft, and installing a Boulton and Watt engine to wind rock salt
and pump brine. In 1821 John Gilbert the younger sold the Symme Fields to John
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In 1856 John Thompson Senior
(1790-1867) and John Thompson Junior (1821-1899) obtained from John Buckley a
50 year lease for the Outlet Field (part of Symme Fields), where they
constructed the Alliance Salt Works. This was served by a canal arm linked to the
Trent and Mersey Canal, and a siding on the Marston Branch of the Cheshire
Midland Railway. In 1874 Jabez Thompson was in possession of the works. In 1877
a number of houses were constructed on Ollershaw Lane, probably to accommodate
workers at the Lion Salt Works. These included the current buildings of the Red
Lion Inn. In 1888, the Thompson family sold the Alliance Salt Works to the Salt
Union. The Alliance Salt Works closed around 1900 and the site passed from the
Salt Union into the ownership of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), who
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Lion Salt Works in 1898 (Ordnance Survey)</td></tr>
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In 1894, following disagreement
with the Salt Union over the roles of Thompson family members, John Junior and
his son, Henry Ingram Thompson, constructed a new salt works in the coal yard
of the Red Lion Hotel, and the works became known as the ‘Lion Salt Works’. Initially
the Lion Salt works adopted the buildings of the Red Lion Hotel. The new
company quickly built a series of pan and stove houses between the hotel and
the canal, that include Pan 2, Stove House 2, the Link Building and a former
building in the Pan House Garden (Pan 1). A brine shaft was sunk in the yard of
the hotel and a brine tank was built that still stands today.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When John Thompson Junior died in
1899, Henry Ingram Thompson took over the salt business, and an inventory of
the salt works was created in that year, valuing the Lion Salt Works at £6,600.
The inventory included a new pan and stove house (Pan and Stove House 3), as
well as a number of common pans that have now been demolished. The small
single-storey ‘manager’s office’ was built separate to the site. In 1901 Henry
Ingram Thompson erected a new salt store by the canal on the west side of
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It was about this time that two
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In the 1950s the common pans
described above were demolished and replaced by Pan and Stove House 4. The old
brine shaft was abandoned and filled with cinders. A new shaft was built and
served by a reclaimed steam engine and a nodding-donkey pump, still visible on
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In the early 1960s, Alan Thompson
and Henry Lloyd Thompson purchased land from ICI, on the Alliance Works site,
in order to erect Pan House 5, which received planning consent in 1965. At
about the same time, a new borehole was drilled to the east of the original
brine shaft, and an electrical submersible pump installed. The existing engine
house was rebuilt in c.1980; and Pan No.1 became unsafe during the early 1980s,
and was therefore demolished.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In June 1986, the outbreak of the
Nigerian civil war precipitated the closure of the works, as the main market
was located in West Africa, and the site was purchased by Vale Royal Borough Council.
The Red Lion Inn was leased to Macclesfield and Vale Royal Groundwork Trust,
and converted to offices and exhibition space. The lease to the whole site was
transferred to the Lion Salt Works Trust.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chris Hewitsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07548307516340339056noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2996376103256951817.post-91956472978243235742012-11-09T08:56:00.002+00:002012-12-03T15:08:20.657+00:00October 2012 - Rebuilding the Pan Houses<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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As October passes the nights are drawing in. The early morning mist clings to the site to midday and the evening skies bleach the buildings red.</div>
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With the scaffold complete, preparation starts to rebuild the walls of the individual buildings. Some walls have to be entirely taken down brick by brick. A foundation of concrete is laid and the wall built back up using the original bricks.</div>
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One of the major tasks over the next month will be to take down the walls between Pan House 3 and Stove House 3; and the identical wall between Pan House 4 and Stove House 4. <span style="text-align: center;">In order to rebuild it strong foundations were needed and the area was dug out through a mix of brick rubble and concrete to foundation level. The material was so strong breakers were needed to remove it.</span><br />
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These walls between the pan and stove houses were both structurally weak. The culprit: large metal plates that allowed the flues to pass under the walls. They had become infiltrated with salt and decayed. The wall of Pan House 4 was in such bad repair it had partially collapsed.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the north side of Pan 2: dense undergrowth had <br />
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<tr><td>Other areas are built of timber and the planks. In Stove House 3 these are being removed in order to dismantle the wall prior to rebuilding it brick by brick in the same location. The timbers are being removed, propped and the rotten material replaced.<br />
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It has not just been a destructive process; the first walls of Pan House 3 have been rebuilt, brick by brick; the mortar carefully selected to match the subtle hues of the various mixes of mortar used on site.</div>
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Chris Hewitsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07548307516340339056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2996376103256951817.post-39053802506872836032012-10-21T16:08:00.000+01:002012-12-03T14:11:00.300+00:00September 2012 - Completing the Scaffold<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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summer months was a long and difficult process given the condition of the
buildings. Seven buildings in total within the historic core had to be propped:
both Pan Houses 3 and 4, Stove Houses 2, 3 and 4, the Link Block and the
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building had to be individually designed in order to take the unique weights
and stresses. The scaffold secures the walls and floors and takes the weight
from existing structure of cast iron columns, iron girders, wooden posts and
beams. The scaffold not only props the building but allows access to the upper
working areas of the site: the roofs, the roof beams and the upper floors.
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With the scaffold in place the
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The enabling work that stabilised the building was undertaken by Wates Construction and they have now been contracted to undertake the main restoration work. They will be ably assisted by William Anelay who undertook the enabling works in 2009 that saw the dismantling of many of the partially collapsed structures.</div>
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In order to secure the structural condition of the buildings
the internal and walls of the building will be entirely rebuilt. In places
these had partly collapsed as they had been built on metal plates and girders
that had disintegrated due to the corrosive effects of salt reacting with the
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In addition external walls will be dismantled and rebuilt on
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The former brine shaft that allowed brine to be extracted
from the brine streams flowing beneath the site has to be grouted in order to
make it safe. Although the location of the brine shaft was known from historic
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Chris Hewitsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07548307516340339056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2996376103256951817.post-48206104912030476212012-10-21T15:45:00.001+01:002012-10-21T15:45:19.702+01:00The Heritage Open Day 2012<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Works was one of a number of sites open across the region on the weekend of the
9<sup>th</sup>, 10<sup>th</sup> and 11<sup>th</sup> of September.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Visitors were shown round the site and given talks by Chris
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Visitors were able to walk around the site and a museum display
was located in the ground floor of the Red Lion Inn.<o:p></o:p></div>
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but also for people to come and share their memories of the works. We had
visitors who had worked on the site, who remembered the site when they were
children and those who had lived in the local area including the Salt Barge pub
across the street. We hope to capture these memories as part of the Salt
Memories – Oral History Project.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chris Hewitsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07548307516340339056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2996376103256951817.post-73868652345386113432012-08-15T13:40:00.000+01:002012-08-28T10:17:01.914+01:00Salt in Cheshire before the Lion Salt Works<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>In a new part of the Lion Salt Works blogs we will look at the history,
processes and people of the Lion Salt Works and salt industry in Cheshire in
our in depth history guides. This will bring together historical reports and
the latest research where possible. The blogs will also try to explain the
different buildings and processes at the Lion Salt Works in the easy …<b>How to</b> … guides.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Roman and prehistoric salt-making</h3>
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Salt-making in Cheshire dates back
over 2000 years and is prehistoric in origin. The latest research by Janice
Kinory into prehistoric salt-making has highlighted Cheshire as an important
salt-making area from prior to the arrival of the Romans.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The salt towns of Cheshire were
first established by the Roman period at Northwich (Condate), Middlewich
(Salinae) and Nantwich. In 2002 excavation revealed the fullest evidence so far
recovered for the Roman settlement at Nantwich, a historic salt-producing
centre in Cheshire (north-western England), was revealed by an excavation
carried out at Kingsley Fields, on the west side of the town. Positioned along a Roman road was evidence for the collection and storage of brine and the production of
salt, together with buildings, enclosures, a well and a small number of
cremation burials. Waterlogged conditions meant that organic remains, including
structural timbers, were well preserved on the site. These included the two
finest examples of timber-built brine tanks excavated from Roman Britain. The
report on these excavations by Peter Arrowsmith and David Power has been
recently published (see below).<o:p></o:p></div>
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By the Anglo-Saxon period the
towns had developed the <i>–wich</i> place
names by which they are described today. The Domesday Book of 1086 describes
the extent of the salt-works in the Cheshire region. Northwich was described as
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<i>In the same hundred of Mildestvic there was
a third Wich called Norwich (Northwich), which was in farm at eight pounds. In
it there were the same laws and customs as in the other Wiches, and the King
and the Earl divided the receipts in the like manner. All the thanes who held
salt-houses in this Wich gave no Friday's boilings of salt the year through.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Production continued throughout
the medieval period. Perhaps the best archaeological find from this period was the Nantwich Salt Ship now on display at the <a href="http://www.nantwichmuseum.org.uk/" target="_blank">Nantwich Museum</a>. This huge hollowed out tree trunk is an amazing survival of the medieval salt industry in Nantwich. Known as a ‘salt ship’ it was found during excavations in 2003 and was used to store brine before it was heated in shallow lead pans to produce salt crystals. It survived due to waterlogged conditions preventing its decay. Evidence of medieval salt working in Nantwich survives well in the waterlogged ground and remains of timber buildings, salt ships and wooden barrels all show how important the salt industry was in the town.</div>
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In 1580, the great chronicler William Camden writing in his
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<i>From thence runneth Wever down by Nantwich,
not far from Middlewich, and so to Northwich. These are very famous
Salt-Wiches, five or six miles distant, where brine or salt water is drawn out
of pits, which they pour not upon wood while it burneth as the ancient Gauls
and Germans were wont to do, but boil it over a fire to make salt thereof.</i>
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The process of medieval salt-making
was almost identical to that undertaken at the Lion Salt Works. It relied on
heating brine over a fire, but the pans were much smaller and generally made of
lead not iron. The supply of brine at this time relied on natural springs or
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<i>" At Northwich there is a deep and plentiful
brine pit with stairs about it, by which, when they have drawn the water in
their leathern buckets, they ascend, half naked, to their troughs and fill
them, from whence it is conveyed to the wich-houses about which there stand on
every side many stakes and piles of wood." (William Camden – Magna
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The extent of salt-making in
Northwich was significant as suggested by a letter received by George Johnson
from Chomley, in February 1605;<i> ‘The said
Northwich is a Burrow and holden of the Earle of Chester… There is, in the same
towne or Burrow, one hundred and thirteen salt houses, every one containing
four leads apiece...’</i>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The pans were small and set in
groups of four with the heat drawn from the fires by a small chimney. William
Brownrigg writing in 1748 in his ‘<i><a href="http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_art_of_making_common_salt_as_now_pra.html?id=yzGZB53WQzkC&redir_esc=y" target="_blank">Book of Common Salt</a></i>’, shows a wood-cut of one of these salt-making pans.<o:p></o:p></div>
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century the small pans of the medieval period had been replaced by much larger
iron pans in the Cheshire region. These were almost as large as the ones in the
Lion Salt Works. Christoph Chrysel writing in 1773 in his ‘<i>Remarkable and very useful Information about the present Salt Works and
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<i>The first pan is 36 feet long, 25 feet broad
and 13 inches deep and holds at one time 975 cubic feet of brine and has three
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<i>The second pan is 40 ft. long, 27 feet broad
and 13 inches deep, and holds at one time 1170 cubic feet of Brine and has 3
Fireplaces. Both these large pans are still to be seen in England on the
Baron's Quay Salt works near Northwich in Cheshire, where they are worked
weekly and were built more than 4 years since.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Christoph Chrysel developed an
improved system of salt-making for which he received a 14 year patent. He
describes a process not dissimilar to that used at the Lion Salt Works
suggesting it had reached its ultimate form by the 18<sup>th</sup> century. His
improvement to the process developed the furnace beneath the salt pans and
resulted in<i> ‘the least Fire and Coal the
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<i>" The fourth sort is Broad Salt, that is to say Coarse Salt, because
it has larger crystals than the foregoing salt. It is made more especially in
Cheshire in every salt works. The Brine from the Salt springs with a very
gentle and moderate fire, in large pans is heated for 24 hours when large hard
crystals are formed. It is drawn into Salt Tubs and allowed to remain on the
sides of the Pans for 8 or 9 hours then taken to the Storehouse and thrown into
a heap and allowed to lie until it is dry, which happens in a few days. I have
seen it sold in two or three days and taken away. The price of this Salt at the
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<i>" The fifth sort is Fishery or Flakey or Shivery salt. The Brine
is heated with a very gentle fire for 36 hours for half a pan of brine or 72
hours for a full pan, when crystals of half an inch and ¾ inch cube are formed.
This is sold at 20 shillings per ton without the duty and is chiefly sent to
the Newfoundland Fishery without paying any duty, for all salt sold and shipped
out of England pays no duty. On the contrary all salt used in England must pay
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His description of salt made in
Cheshire would not have been unfamiliar to the Thompson’s in the 1960s. The
open pan salt works that developed around Northwich used unchanged 18<sup>th</sup>-century
technology but were generally larger in scale. Tom Lightfoot describing his
memories of the Middlewich and Winsford industries of the early 20<sup>th</sup>
century suggests large numbers of salt pans set side by side along the River
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Janice Kinory 2012 <i>Salt
Production, Distribution and Use in the British Iron Age</i>, <a href="http://www.archaeopress.com/ArchaeopressShop/Public/defaultArchaeopress.asp">Archaeopress</a>, BAR 559<o:p></o:p></div>
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Peter Arrowsmith and David Power 2012
<i>Roman Nantwich: A Salt-Making Settlement
Excavations at Kingsley Fields in 2002, </i><a href="http://www.archaeopress.com/ArchaeopressShop/Public/defaultArchaeopress.asp">Archaeopress</a>, BAR 557<o:p></o:p></div>
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Over the last few weeks steady progress has been made at the Lion Salt Works.</div>
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Scaffolding has continued in Pan House 3 and is being put up around the remains of Pan House 4 (picture right) which lies to the east. The scaffold is being placed either side of the pan and bridged over it.</div>
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Either side of the large pan for salt boiling were wooden platforms known as 'hurdles' from which the salt workers skimmed the salt from the boiling surface. These were made of three inch thick timbers laid loosely on a wooden framework. To the right John and Gary pass scaffold poles through the loose boards to allow a scaffold platform to be formed over the pan from which work can commence on the roof.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The percussion rig in front of Pan House 4</td></tr>
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Meanwhile elsewhere on the site geo-technical boreholes have been undertaken. These are drilled through the earth in order to understand the make-up of the ground below the monument. The largest rig (seen on the right) goes down up to 18 metres underground.</div>
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A smaller rig known as a 'window sampler' (seen left) goes down to a shallower depth of 8 metres. Here it is seen in the Pan House Garden next to the Ollershaw Lane bridge next to the canal.</div>
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The boreholes provide a profile of the soil and geological material below the site. This will allow an understanding of foundation work required below the buildings.</div>
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In order to prevent damage to archaeological remains below the ground, test pits were dug before each hole was drilled. These allowed the discovery of interesting remains from previous phases of the Lion Salt Works. The test pit adjacent to Pan House 4 revealed the remains of train rails and sleepers.</div>
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The tracks are exposed elsewhere on site, on which sit the remains of the salt wagon. These curve round the Red Lion Inn and in front of the two pan houses where coal would have been unloaded directly into the stove houses.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The exposed tracks by the salt carriage</td></tr>
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Elsewhere a buried brick surface probably represent some of the remains of an earlier pan house built in around 1900 that was located next to the bridge on Ollershaw Lane. The brick surface probably represents a gutter running down the side of the pan that took the waste salt brine away.</div>
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Chris Hewitsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07548307516340339056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2996376103256951817.post-72189788016940968482012-04-24T15:45:00.000+01:002012-05-18T17:33:49.739+01:00Welcome...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Welcome all to this the first of my blogs on the Lion Salt Works.<br />
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I'm Chris Hewitson, and I've been appointed as the Lion Salt Works Project Archaeologist for the next two years during the restoration of the site before it opens as a visitor attraction and museum. I'll be your guide through the process of the restoration and hopefully explaining what we are doing on site, why and when.<br />
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After a career in archaeology in the West Midlands I've headed back up the M6 to the north to come and work on the project.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Lion Salt Works from Ollershaw Lane</td></tr>
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So what is the Lion Salt Works? Well for those of you who don't know it is the last surviving open pan salt works in the country. An open pan salt-making involves the artificial heating of brine (that's salty water) by coal or in the case of the Lion Salt Works oil at the end. Work ceased at the site in 1986 and since then it has been a museum. Details about the site and the project are on the <a href="http://www.lionsaltworks.org/project.asp">Lion Salt Works project page</a>. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">By the canal</td></tr>
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As well as the regular blog update we will be adding more photos, videos and explaining the work as the project goes on showing how the restoration work is progressing. </div>
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<b>The story so far...</b></div>
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So what's been going on so far on site. Although the main part of the restoration work is a long way off some of us have been on site for a while now preparing the works.</div>
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For those of you who pass by Ollershaw Lane on a regular basis or live in Marston you will have noticed that the fencing has gone up around the site and along the canal towpath. Although at the moment it seems the site is being hidden from view, peep holes will be available so you can still see progress from the canal towpath.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John and Dwayne admire their handiwork in Pan House 3</td></tr>
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Scaffolders from HT Scaffold have commenced propping the interior of Pan House 3. As you can imagine the buildings have seen better days and in order to work in the buildings they have to be secure. This involves building a 'bird cage' scaffold which will support the entire structure during restoration work.</div>
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Please feel free to ask questions and I shall do my best to answer.</div>
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</div>Chris Hewitsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07548307516340339056noreply@blogger.com0Lion Salt Works53.2749978033226 -2.495162487030029353.2744043033226 -2.4963964870300295 53.2755913033226 -2.4939284870300291