Salt Making Demonstration at Barrow Dock Museum Sunday 9th Sept 2018

We shall be making salt at the Dock Museum, Barrow in Furness on Sunday 9th September, 2018 to be a part of the Hidden Histories Exhibition.
More information at the article in The Mail - Hidden Histories

Museum opens 11am to 4pm. The exhibition runs until 4 November, 2018.

We will be using our small metal salty pan and burning peat as the fuel to evaporate the brine.
Experience the overwhelming peat smell - or 'peat reek' as some call it.

Our small metal salt pan with peat fire.

Salt pan reflected in iron and glass sculpture outside the Dock Museum, Barrow.

The section on salt making around Morecambe Bay features new research by Jonathan Cass who has been transcribing probate documents with references to salt making.

Michelle Cooper, Headlands to Headspace Community & Heritage training officer at Morecambe Bay Partnership, said: "The exhibition is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate and share the achievements of hard working volunteers from all around Morecambe Bay who have been unearthing, recording and researching hidden stories and archaeology from around the Bay."

Separating the Salt from the Sand

Photo sent from the Morecambe Bay Partnership of the talk 'Separating the Salt from the Sand' last Saturday at Silverdale.
A room full of people interested in the enigmatic, historic salt making process of washing salt from the sands and silts of Morecambe Bay. Hopefully the Morecambe Bay Partnership, through the Headland to Headspace programme will begin to seek out some of the sites mentioned in documents
The talk was an introduction to the process, which is little understood, and will lead to further work to understand how the process was carried out around the Bay from Barrow to Fleetwood.
Some members of the audience had already started personal research projects, making salt themselves, studying the monastic records or transcribing inventory records. Still lots to do though.
Hopefully we will be able to give a demonstration of the process during an event next summer.

Separating the Salt from the Sand

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