Salt Industries
The tomb of John Smith, the local salt tax officer in the graveyard of St John the Evangelist's Church at Crosscanonby near Maryport, Cumbria.
John Smith died in 1730 and a carving on his tomb shows him working at his desk with a quill in his hand.
Saltpans at Croscannonby, on the Solway Firth, Cumbria.
A 17th century salt works, built be the Senhouses of Netherhall, and probably only operational from 1650 to 1736. As a child, my family had a caravan on the opposite side of the road and I used to play in the saltpans and ruined buildings on the site. The latter were demolished in 1970.
Saltpans at Croscannonby, on the Solway Firth, Cumbria.
A 17th century salt works, built be the Senhouses of Netherhall, and probably only operational from 1650 to 1736. As a child, my family had a caravan on the opposite side of the road and I used to play in the saltpans and ruined buildings on the site. The works were largely demolished in 1970.
Saltpans at Croscannonby, on the Solway Firth, Cumbria.
A 17th century salt works, built be the Senhouses of Netherhall, and probably only operational from 1650 to 1736. As a child, my family had a caravan on the opposite side of the road and I used to play in the saltpans and ruined buildings on the site. The works were largely demolished in 1970.
The Black Bull, Preesall near Knott End on the Lancashire Coast.
In 1872 a group of men from Barrow in Furness stayed at the inn during their search for iron ore in the area. None was found, but they did discover a bed of rock salt, from which they took a sample. Upon returning to the inn, the landlord's 17-year-old daughter Dorothy Parkinson processed the sample by dissolving, filtering and boiling it. In doing so, she had created the first example of Preesall salt. In 1902, Preesall Salt Works was built on the east bank of the River Wyre, to the north of the village's salt marshes.
A well-head beside a brine pond (concealed behind the tall grasses) at Pressall near Knott End on the Lancashire Coast in Lancashire.
Large deposits of rock salt lie underground at Knott End and Preesall. Brine wells were first drilled here in the 1890s to pump fresh water down bore holes to dissolve the salt or halite deposits which could then be extracted by pipeline to an evaporation process. The brine fields here provided the raw material for the ICI chemical plant across the Wyre which produced both chlorine and salt.
A well-head beside a brine pond (concealed behind the tall grasses) at Pressall near Knott End on the Lancashire Coast in Lancashire.
Large deposits of rock salt lie underground at Knott End and Preesall. Brine wells were first drilled here in the 1890s to pump fresh water down bore holes to dissolve the salt or halite deposits which could then be extracted by pipeline to an evaporation process. The brine fields here provided the raw material for the ICI chemical plant across the Wyre which produced both chlorine and salt.