Ecosal-UK Newsletter No.6

We have completed the 6th Newsletter for Ecosal-UK. Read it on-line, or email for a pdf to be sent to you.
Download from https://drive.google.com/open?id=1t1KLHIHqhBbHKl4EZnUqHmgNQ5_Ekc1m

Earlier issues can also be found on Google Drive at   Saltcote Newsletters

Video of talk given to Newcomen Society, 24th Oct 2018

Talk given at the Lion Salt Works on 24th October to a symposium organised by the NW Regional group of the Newcomen Society.






Also see talk on the geology of the Cheshire salt basin by Ross Todhunter -
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLneu_td-VMV--RXoVkM7pKmbQgzJN5wQE

Visit of Sir Hugo Brunner and cousins to the Brunner Guildhall

Sir Hugo Brunner made a visited to see the Brunner Guildhall on Friday 19th October, 2018. He was joined by two of his cousins, James Blyth and Georgina Dunlop.

Left to right: James Blyth, Hugo Brunner, Cllr Gina Lewis, mayor of Winsford, Andrew Fielding, Georgina Dunlop, Cllr Ailsa Gaskill-Jones, deputy Mayor and Mark Bailey, own Clerk.  

West Cumbria Archaeology Society - Mary Rose Talk 9th November 2019

Andrew Fielding will be giving a talk about the excavation of the Mary Rose on 9th November at 7.30 to the West Cumbria Archaeological Society.
Venue: Allhallows Community Centre, Fletchertown, Cumbria.

Salt Making at The Dock Museum, Barrow in Furness 9th Sept, 2018

We were asked to stage a salt making demonstration at the opening to the 'Hidden Histories' exhibition staged at the Dock Museum, Barrow in Furness by the Morecambe Bay Partnership. Funded by the HLF the exhibition looks as the heritage of Morecambe Bay.
We gave a lecture in 2016 at the start of the project about the different processes of salt making that have been recorded in the area. This was published in the Landscape Trust's magazine Keer to Kent, Spring 2016 - Separating the Salt from the Sand.
Part of the exhibition features the research of Jonathan Cass who spent time looking through probate documents that related to the salt industry.

Our small metal salt pan with a peat fire.

Salt pan reflected in a metal and glass installation outside the Dock Museum.

Exhibition panel featuring Jonathan Cass's research looking at probate documents that mention salt and salt making in the Morecambe Bay area.

Brunner Guildhall - Heritage Open Day Event

Work on the ConservationStatement continues, meanwhile the Guildhall will be open to visitors during Heritage Open Days 2018.

Brunner Guildhall animated 3d model

3d model of the Brunner Guildhall created by Andrew Fielding and Ecosal-UK for Winsford Town Council and the Brunner Guildhall project.

This first stage in the Brunner Guildhall restoration project is funded by The Architectural Heritage Fund and grants provided by Cheshire West and Chester councillors for Winsford.

Members of the team report through the Town Clerk, Mark Bailey to the Winsford Town Council Brunner Guildhall Management Committee. 

Team members are :

Andrew Fielding of A&A Fielding Ltd and Ecosal-UK

Tony Barton, Donald Insall Associates, architects

Christine Chadwick, social engagement and business planning

Viv Tyler, governance advice

John Malam, local history and education

Fact sheet as part of the public consultation.

Tm Hardy Air Mechanic 1st Class 1916-1918

We have finally completed the publication of Thomas Masters Hardy's notebooks that he kept at Chingford in WW1.

It is available as a print on demand publication from Blurb.

Soft cover
http://www.blurb.co.uk/b/8628563-thomas-masters-hardy-air-mechanic-1st-class-1916-1

Hard cover
http://www.blurb.co.uk/b/8626914-thomas-masters-hardy-air-mechanic-1st-class-1916-1

Terra Salina - International Symposium

Terra Salina International Symposium

Talk about the issues involved in the restoration of the Lion Salt Works and also Ecosal-UK.

TM Hardy - cover

Cover design for TMH's RNAS notebooks.
Finished book will be uploaded to the Blurb online bookshop soon.

Sel et Salinas

We contributed to a chapter on the archaeology and historical development of salt making in the UK and wrote  the chapter describing salt making sites in the UK that could form the basis of a Salt Route.

Sels et Salines de l'Europe Atlantique

edited by Loic Menanteau

Numerous authors from the partner organisations who participated in the EU funded project Ecosal-Atlantis from Portugal, Spain, France and the UK.

Chapters from the UK by Prof Mark Brisbane, Dr Mark Maltby and Roger Herbert from Bournemouth University; Andrew Fielding from A&A Fielding Ltd, David Cranstone from Cranstone Consulting and Ivan Day from Historic Foods.

500 pages (7 kilos)

Order from University of Rennes University Press

http://pur-editions.fr/detail.php?idOuv=4566

Another WM Hardy book - Wave Action of Our Coast

We are putting together a facsimile of William Masters Hardy's book Wave Action on our Coast, published in 1911. Some items in this book refer to events he recorded in his memoirs, which we included in our last Blurb book.

The extract below includes WMH's views on towns that discharged raw sewage directly into the sea.

"....I think that my readers will agree with me when I say that the

inhabitants of a city, borough, or town that discharges crude

sewage into the sea around our coast, especially in bays like

Studland, Swanage, Durlston, and Chapman's Pool, are

guilty of a crime, a public wrong against the sea and the land,

against humanity, and the fish in the sea. Therefore, it is

essential for the benefit and prosperity of any town situated

on the coast, that the sea and foreshore should be kept

absolutely pure."

The facsimile will be able to be purchased online through Blurb by late March.

Brunner Guildhall - Winsford, Cheshire

We have been providing the Town Clerk to Winsford Town Council with advice and support for the council's desire to restore, adapt and revitalise the currently unoccupied Brunner Guildhall located in the High Street in the centre of Winsford.

The building was donated to the town after Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebrations by Sir John Thomlinson Brunner MP, owner of the chemical giant Brunner Mond. The announcement of the gift is recorded by the then town clerk, John Cooke in his record of the celebrations and the Brunner Guildhall was opened in 1899. See our book John Henry Cooke 'a very worthy gentleman' published in 2015 - http://www.blurb.co.uk/b/6539089-jh-cooke-1848-1928

The Brunner Guildhall is a Grade 2 listed building

A public meeting is being organised for Tuesday 13th February, 2018.
More details to follow.

New information boards have been erected at Ecomuseu Marinha da Troncalhada, Aveiro, Portugal.

Andrew and Annelise, working through Ecosal-UK were pleased to have been asked to help with the English language translation.

http://mca.cm-aveiro.pt/rede-de-museus/ecomuseu-marinha-da-troncalhada/