VOTE Lion Salt Works in the 2016 HLF Heritage Awards

Please vote for the Lion Salt Works in the 2016 HLF Heritage Awards.
Link below -

http://www.lotterygoodcauses.org.uk/awards/heritage

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.

Back Copies of The Mundling Stick Now Online

The Lion Salt Works Project has made available all the back copies of the newsletter, The Mundling Stick written by Andrew Fielding whilst he was Project Director of the Lion Salt Works Trust employed by Vale Royal Borough Council. The newsletter was a quarterly publication produced from 1995 until Andrew left the project in 2010.

Councillor Stuart Parker, Executive Member for Culture and Economy, said: “The Mundling Stick newsletters are a real asset to the historic story of the Lion Salt Works.

“They illustrate the vital role the Trust has played in bringing us to where we are today – with the £8.8m restoration of this unique historic site well underway.

“I am delighted that the newsletters can now be accessed online. Not only is this fascinating resource more accessible to a wider audience, it is also preserved for future generations.”Trust Chairman Nick Hunt said: “The Lion Salt Works Trust have always regarded the Mundling Stick as a primary way of communicating the salt heritage story to local and wider interest groups.

“It will be an invaluable archive in understanding how the Salt Works came to be regenerated.”

Curved Group

Whilst I was monitoring the dismantling of Stove House 5 at the Lion Salt Works many timbers could not be retained for re-instatement when the stove house is rebuilt. One group of these timbers was the light weight cladding timber to the upper sections of the east and west gables.

I was able to offer some of these lengths of cladding to local artist Carolyn Shepherd, who had taken part in the 1st Salt Sunday celebrations with the Salt of the Earth network established by the Bishop of Birkenhead. She has used brine, salt and timber sourced from Lion Salt Works, Solvay and the rock salt mine operated by Salt Union-Compas and Minerals.

The work is to be displayed at the degree show to be held at the Williamson Gallery, Birkenhead - 12 June to ?  and her work was selected to feature in the "Best of the Degree Shows 2010" annual publication at this link http://www.a-n.co.uk/publications/document/627569

For Carolyn's web site go to
http://www.carolynshepherd.co.uk/Carolyn_Shepherd/5.html