Mike Everett
Lion Salt Works
Inside Salt store,
Lion Salt Works Now a Scheduled Ancient Monument, Lion Salt Works was the UK's last surviving open pan salt works and one of only three left in the world.
Salt production had been important to Cheshire since Roman times. By the 19th century the region produced 86 per cent of the nation's salt.
Lion Salt Works was established in 1894 by the Thompson family and remained in their ownership through five generations. The works produced salt by evaporating wild brine over an open fire in large lead pans, and the different salts they produced would be employed in the fishing, dairy and cosmetic industries. Workers would often spend most of the week working, eating and sleeping at the works and were often joined by their families. .
Lion Salt Works was closed in 1986. Today, despite subsidence problems the site retains five of its pans, four of which are in pan houses, while the fifth, which has collapsed, is an outdoor structure.
Marston, Cheshire
Lion Salt Works
Inside Salt store,
Lion Salt Works Now a Scheduled Ancient Monument, Lion Salt Works was the UK's last surviving open pan salt works and one of only three left in the world.
Salt production had been important to Cheshire since Roman times. By the 19th century the region produced 86 per cent of the nation's salt.
Lion Salt Works was established in 1894 by the Thompson family and remained in their ownership through five generations. The works produced salt by evaporating wild brine over an open fire in large lead pans, and the different salts they produced would be employed in the fishing, dairy and cosmetic industries. Workers would often spend most of the week working, eating and sleeping at the works and were often joined by their families. .
Lion Salt Works was closed in 1986. Today, despite subsidence problems the site retains five of its pans, four of which are in pan houses, while the fifth, which has collapsed, is an outdoor structure.
Marston, Cheshire