Salt Making at Middlewich Roman Festival MMXI

Raking salt

Lost in steam

"How do you get the salt in the water?"

Salt Making at the Middlewich Roman Festival MMXl

Ermine Street Guard at the Middlewich Roman Festival MMXl 

Visitors looking at how the firebox heats the salt pans

Raking salt from the replica Roman salt pans

Salt Making at Middlewich Roman Festival Sat-Sun 24-25 Sept

I will be leading Kerry Fletcher's volunteers in making salt as part of the Middlewich Town Council's latest Roman Festival.
Pictures of setting up on Friday 23 Sept to follow.
Salt making demo pics to follow over the week end and a video to be uploaded at the end event.

This will also be a part of the establishment of the Cheshire section of the UK Ecosal-Atlantic Route of Traditional Salt Making.

Sat Sunday 2011

Salt Sunday 2011 to be held at Northwich and Halton, Cheshire

A wonderful tomb dedicated to a salt officer can be found at John the Evangelist church at Crosscononby on the Solway Coast, Cumbria.
It will feature in the  Ecosal Atlantic Route of Traditional Salt Making.
Tomb of a Salt Officer at Croscannonby, Cumbria

Trial blog site for George Street Chapel

The Stage 2 submission to the HLF was submitted today by Age Concern Oldham to secure funds to restore the former Independent Methodist Chapel at George Street, Oldham.
The project will hear if it has been successful after the next HLF-NW trustees meeting on 2 December, 2011.
We propose a web presence supported by web site, Facebook site and a blog particularly for the Friends of George Street. To demonstrate what this might look like we set up a trial site for the Community Development Co-ordinator. Link to the Trial blog site for George Street Chapel restoration project.
A link to the project sites will follow.
Some £300,000 is needed in match funding, the organ alone requires a total of £70,000 to complete its refurbishment.

CBA North and CBA NW Joint Conference - 29 October 2011

We will be giving a talk on the Ecosal 'Traditional Salt Making - The Atlantic Route' at the joint CBA North and North West Archaeology Conference being held at Kirkland Hall, Kendal on Saturday 29 October 2011.
More details to follow.