AIA Conference Tour 2014 - Nantwich - Middlewich - Northwich

Today I led the guided Tour K, the final tour of the 2014 AIA Conference.
Excellent visit to Nantwich Museum to view the lead salt pan and medieval 'salt ship' where delegates were met by Graham Dodd.
Then a tour of the derelect, but soon to be restored, electric brine pump a part of Murgatroyd's Salt Works. The group was met by Heritage Middlewich volunteers lead by Kerry Fletcher before we all departed for lunch at The Big Lock pub on the Trent and Mersey Canal.
The final port of call was Ashton and Neumanns Flashes and the Lion Salt Works at Northwich, where we were given a tour of the salt works now that the main restoration works are almost complete.

Murgatroyds Brine Pump, Middlewich.

Lion Salt Works, Northwich.

Inside one of the salt warehouse at Lion Salt Works.

BBC Radio 4 - Open Country - 21 August 2014

BBC Radio 4 - Open Country

BBC Radio 4 programme Open Country talks about Cheshire Salt on Thursday 21 August 2014 at 15.00
repeated Saturday 23 August at 6.05am.
Felicity Evans taks to Andrew Fielding, Ecosal-UK; Kerry Fletcher, Midlewich Town Council Heritage Office; Chris Hewitson, Cheshire West and Chester, Lion Salt Works and goes below ground to the Winsford Rock Salt Mine, Compass and Minerals.

Middlewich Salt Fair 19-20 Oct 2012

Representing the Ecosal-Atlantis project at the Middlewich Salt Fair.
Kerry Fletcher's volunteers will be evaporating brine in stainless steel pans outside the hall.