Talk to Headlands to Headspace, Morecambe Bay Partnership
Separating the Salt from the Sand
by Andrew Fielding
Saturday 3rd October
Elizabeth Gaskell Centre, Silverdale
Starts 2pm
Book through MBP
A blog for those interested in the heritage and culture of traditional salt making in the UK.
Wednesday, 30 September 2015
Tuesday, 29 September 2015
Thursday, 17 September 2015
Sunday, 6 September 2015
Salt Making Demonstration - Holme Cultram Abbey, Cumbria - 16 Sept 2015
Andrew and Annelise Fielding will be giving a demonstration of salt making at Holme Cultram Abbey, Abbeytown, Cumbria on Wednesday 16 September. Short opening talk 10am, fire lit 11am. Summary talk 3pm, close 4.30pm
The event takes place during a community excavation at Holme Cultram Abbey by Grampus Heritage for Solway Coast AONB and Solway Wetlands Landscape Partnership.
The event takes place during a community excavation at Holme Cultram Abbey by Grampus Heritage for Solway Coast AONB and Solway Wetlands Landscape Partnership.
Friday, 21 August 2015
Tom Lane to Speak at the European Association of Archaeologists, Glasgow 2-5 Sept 2015
EAA Programme
This talk will take place on 5th Sept
ABSTRACT
LV4 - Maths Building 516
IMPACTS OF CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: THE EFFECTS ON COASTAL SALTMAKING IN LINCOLNSHIRE, UK
Tom Lane ECOSAL UK
Following the results of English Heritage sponsored Surveys, chiefly in the 1980s, and subsequent investigative works, information is present about a series of past climate and environmental change events in the Fenland and coastal regions of Lincolnshire, Eastern England, covering some five millennia. These changes have resulted both in coastal erosion in places and elsewhere on the coast accretion. These altered landscapes affected not just coastal communities but those inland for up to 50km. Because of its specific natural resource requirements it is intended to view the issue through the coastal saltmaking industry, which flourished from the Bronze Age through to the end of the 16th century. The mapped west –east movement of the industry, and back again, reflects the displacement and movement of people, particularly the specialist saltmakers, and considers how such specialists may fare when the environment and resources necessary for their craft/industry is no longer available. The paper also considers human adaptability to such changes and asks what happened to people who were forced to move and become, in effect, refugees in their own country. Also touched on are issues of individual and group identity and cultural heritage of such groups.
This talk will take place on 5th Sept
ABSTRACT
LV4 - Maths Building 516
IMPACTS OF CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: THE EFFECTS ON COASTAL SALTMAKING IN LINCOLNSHIRE, UK
Tom Lane ECOSAL UK
Following the results of English Heritage sponsored Surveys, chiefly in the 1980s, and subsequent investigative works, information is present about a series of past climate and environmental change events in the Fenland and coastal regions of Lincolnshire, Eastern England, covering some five millennia. These changes have resulted both in coastal erosion in places and elsewhere on the coast accretion. These altered landscapes affected not just coastal communities but those inland for up to 50km. Because of its specific natural resource requirements it is intended to view the issue through the coastal saltmaking industry, which flourished from the Bronze Age through to the end of the 16th century. The mapped west –east movement of the industry, and back again, reflects the displacement and movement of people, particularly the specialist saltmakers, and considers how such specialists may fare when the environment and resources necessary for their craft/industry is no longer available. The paper also considers human adaptability to such changes and asks what happened to people who were forced to move and become, in effect, refugees in their own country. Also touched on are issues of individual and group identity and cultural heritage of such groups.
Saturday, 11 July 2015
Thomas Birtles' Photographic Survey of Northwich
A catalogue of photographs taken by Thomas Birtles between 1891 and 1892 will be published by Andrew and Annelise Fielding at the end of August. The photographs record the town as it was at the passing of the Brine Pumping (Compensation for Subsidence) Act of 1891. The town was at a point of change with brick buildings being replaced by timber-framed buildings as a form of subsidence resistance protecting structures from ground movements caused by rock salt mining and wild brine pumping.
The book is 248 pages long and includes maps showing the location of the buildings with 13 maps and all 251 photographs grouped by their location within the town. The book will retail at £15 in paperback. A&A Fielding Ltd.
Thursday, 9 July 2015
Tomb of John Smith - Crosscanonby - 123Catch
A short clip put together with 123Catch, from photographs of John Smith's tomb at St Johns Church, Crosscanonby. John Smith was a Salt Officer dealing with the salt tax
If you know of other tombs or memorials of people associated with salt please let us know.
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