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.

Contribution to BBC Radio 4 - Open Country

Spent today with Felicity Evans and Mark Smalley of BBC Radio 4's Open Country programme contributing to a 25 minute programme about salt making in Cheshire. Also taking part were Kerry Fletcher, Heritage Officer at Middewich Town Council and Chris Hewitson archaeologist at the Lion Salt Works. Mark and Felicity later made a visit underground at the Winsford rock salt mine operated by Salt Union Compass and Minerals.
The starting point was the country park created around the remains of collapsed rock salt mines at Ashton's and Neumann's Flashes between the town centre of Northwich, the Lion Salt Works at Marston on the Trent and Mersey Canal, River Weaver and the the Anderton Boat lift that links the canal and the river.

Ashton's Flash

Neumann's Flash

Andrew Fielding, Mark Smalley and Felicity Evans