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Brine industry

Roman salt
Changes
17th century

Weaver Navigation Act
Salt works
Pigots 1834 Winsford salt makers

Equipment
Early days
Lump salt production.

Lumpmen
Lumpmen
Turning out the blocks

Trimming lump salt
Fashioning salt
Lofting lump salt

Salt storage
Health and safety
Salt accident

Salt Accident
Salt Accident
Bagging

Salt bag needle
Bagging salt
Common salt making

Fireman
Skimming common salt
Open air fishery saltpans, Newbridge

Newbridge works
Newbridge c1900
Newbridge c2000

Barrowing salt
Loading salt

Vacuum plant
Vacuum plant site
Vacuum plant

Vacuum plant
Vacuum plant
Power station

Purification plant
Drying plant
Bulk pure salt

Mill room
Bagging
Bag stitching

Bag stitching detail
Dispatch by rail
Loading barrels & bulk for export

Bagging pure salt for dairy
Hand bagging pure salt for dairy
Loading pure salt for dairy & export

Manufacture of cattle licks
Electrically operated kitchen girls` canteen
Girls` dining room

Vacuum works paper store packing dept.
Vacuum works folding cartons
Vacuum works sewing boxes packet dept

Vacuum wood box making
Vacuum works wood box making
Vacuum works packing Union salt

Vacuum works packing Falk`s salt
Vacuum works closing and wiring cases Falk salt for export
Vacuum works delivery bay packet dept

Vacuum works Shipping Union and Falk salt
Vacuum works shipping Union & Falk salt
Manufacture of Lagos salt for West Africa

Drying Lagos salt for West Africa
Bagging Lagos salt
Happing handed squares

Drying handed squares
Newbridge Works
Newbridge

Newbridge
Open air fishery salt pans Newbridge
Newbridge fishery salt store and carts

Loading fishery salt for export, Newbridge
Magnesia works
Technical staff offices and laboratories

Research laboratories
Research laboratories
Drawing office

Fitting shops engineering works
Fitting shops engineering works
Railway wagon building and repair shops

Railway wagon and repair shops
Railway wagon and repair shops
Railway wagon and repair shops

Fire brigade
Fire brigade
Compound gearing on brine shaft

Machinery house showing pump trees and rods
Brine storage tanks
Brine storage tanks

Runcorn cleaning inside vacuum plant
Brine reservoir
Brine reservoir remains

Bass remains
Furnival`s patent invention
Furnival`s Patent Salt Works

Plan of Furnival`s Works
Furnival site today
Furnival bridge

Furnival`s swingbridge
Furnival`s swingbridge – central pivot
Footbridge detail

Hamlett`s salt works
Hamlett`s salt store and wharf.
Salt Works by town centre bridge.

Salt Loading Chute.
Salt chute
Moored flats at salt works.

Dirty old town!
Plan showing Winsford Salt Works

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