Tuesday 28 September 2010
2nd Salt Sunday
The second Salt Sunday, part of the Salt of the Earth Initiative inspired by the Bishop of Birkenhead, will be held on Sunday 10 October, 2010 at St Michael and All Angels Church, Middlewich, Cheshire. Salt will be the main theme of their Harvest Festival being held at 10am and the Bishop will lead a Service of Celebration of salt at 3pm. http://www.middlewichparishchurch.org.uk/ http://www.saltoftheearth.btik.com/
Friday 17 September 2010
NW Industrial Archaeology Conference 2010
Saturday 25th September I will be participating in the CBA NW Region Industrial Archaeology & History Conference being hosted by the Merseyside Industrial Archaeology Society at the National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere. http://www.mihs.org.uk/CBA.pdf
My talk includes sites that should be included in a new Salt Trail being researched as part of a European funded collaboration called Ecosal-atlantis . After the talk I said would post a Google map that will include the salt making sites and links I discussed during the talk. This is now included below.
The main objective of the ECOSAL ATLANTIS project, “Ecotourism in saltworks of the Atlantic: a strategy for integral and sustainable development” is the development of joint, integral and sustainable tourism based on the cultural and natural heritage of traditional Atlantic saltworking sites.
Links between salt making sites have been created in other areas. The ALAS project was established to preserve traditions of salt making in salinas. Work in Portugal and Spain was reported in the conference I organised at Lion Salt Works in 2003 and published in the Lion Salt Works Research Report 'Salt Works and Salinas' in 2005, principally work at Figuera da Foz, Salinas d'Annana and Friends of Inland Salinas.
The Trail may have links to sites featured in the European Route of Industrial Heritage - ERIH of which Lion Salt Works was a founder anchor point in the NW of England.
Annelise and I included a gazetteer of the main UK sites in our book 'The Salt Industry' published by Shire Books in 2005. I have also posted videos of historic salt making experiments on youtube such as a demonstration on Wrangle Marsh, Lincolnshire with Tom Lane and the Heritage Trust for Lincolnshire. Other videos are included under the Saltteller and Saltfriend Channel names.
Revisit for text and google map links. These will be updated over coming days. The map will be enlarged to include all sites with a salt connection.
Click for the Salt Trail Map Link
The standard summary of salt making in Cheshire, written by Calvert and published in 1915 is now available as a download at http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924030692697
Links used in the talk (more to follow)
Cumbria web links
http://www.cumbria-industries.org.uk/salt.htm
http://www.walney-island.com/salt_works_01.htm
http://www.visitcumbria.com/wc/crosscanonby-st-john-the-evangelists-church.htm
http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=411241
Wirral Links
http://www.btinternet.com/~m.royden/mrlhp/local/salt/dungeon.htm
http://www.ecosert.org.uk/leaflets/Hilbre.pdf
http://www.deeestuary.co.uk/hilbre/
Cheshire Links
http://www.middlewich-heritage.org.uk/salt-and-canal.html
Salt of the Earth
http://www.saltoftheearth.btik.com/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/saltoftheearth/
My talk includes sites that should be included in a new Salt Trail being researched as part of a European funded collaboration called Ecosal-atlantis . After the talk I said would post a Google map that will include the salt making sites and links I discussed during the talk. This is now included below.
The main objective of the ECOSAL ATLANTIS project, “Ecotourism in saltworks of the Atlantic: a strategy for integral and sustainable development” is the development of joint, integral and sustainable tourism based on the cultural and natural heritage of traditional Atlantic saltworking sites.
Links between salt making sites have been created in other areas. The ALAS project was established to preserve traditions of salt making in salinas. Work in Portugal and Spain was reported in the conference I organised at Lion Salt Works in 2003 and published in the Lion Salt Works Research Report 'Salt Works and Salinas' in 2005, principally work at Figuera da Foz, Salinas d'Annana and Friends of Inland Salinas.
The Trail may have links to sites featured in the European Route of Industrial Heritage - ERIH of which Lion Salt Works was a founder anchor point in the NW of England.
Annelise and I included a gazetteer of the main UK sites in our book 'The Salt Industry' published by Shire Books in 2005. I have also posted videos of historic salt making experiments on youtube such as a demonstration on Wrangle Marsh, Lincolnshire with Tom Lane and the Heritage Trust for Lincolnshire. Other videos are included under the Saltteller and Saltfriend Channel names.
Revisit for text and google map links. These will be updated over coming days. The map will be enlarged to include all sites with a salt connection.
Click for the Salt Trail Map Link
The standard summary of salt making in Cheshire, written by Calvert and published in 1915 is now available as a download at http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924030692697
Links used in the talk (more to follow)
Cumbria web links
http://www.cumbria-industries.org.uk/salt.htm
http://www.walney-island.com/salt_works_01.htm
http://www.visitcumbria.com/wc/crosscanonby-st-john-the-evangelists-church.htm
http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=411241
Wirral Links
http://www.btinternet.com/~m.royden/mrlhp/local/salt/dungeon.htm
http://www.ecosert.org.uk/leaflets/Hilbre.pdf
http://www.deeestuary.co.uk/hilbre/
Cheshire Links
http://www.middlewich-heritage.org.uk/salt-and-canal.html
Salt of the Earth
http://www.saltoftheearth.btik.com/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/saltoftheearth/
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