Contribution to BBC Radio 4 Programme 'Open Country'

Andrew Fielding contributed to a BBC Radio 4 programme about the heritage of salt making in Cheshire for the BBC Radio 4 programme Open Country.
Also contributing were Kerry Fletcher of Heritage Officer at Middlewich Town Council and Chris Hewitson from the Lion Salt Works. Mark Smalley and Felicity Evans followed up the visits to Ashton's and Neumann's Flashes, Lion Salt Works and the Anderton Lift (making the link between the River Weaver and the Trent and Mersey Canal) by going underground at the Winsford rock salt mine operated as a Compass and Minerals company.

Ashton's Flash

Neumann's Flash

Andrew Fielding - Ecosal-UK  with
Mark Smalley and Felicity Evans from BBC Radio 4's  Open Country

Meeting for the Formation of a Salt Group for Iberia

Salt Sunday - May 2014

The Bishop of Birkenhead again led a celebration of salt and chemicals in Cheshire at his annual Salt Sunday today.

Bishop of Birkenhead with Kerry Fletcher, Middlewich Heritage
and Sifta Sam.

Invitation to Construct a New Saltcote for Halen Mon

Halen Mon are inviting expressions of interest from suitably experienced main contractors to undertake construction of this new 990 square metre building at Brynsiencyn, Anglesey, NW Wales.
 See http://halenmon.com/modules/blog/article.aspx?id=52&title=an_invitation 
Deadline to apply Midday 14th March 2014. Contractors satisfying the initial basic criteria will be invited to tender by March 18th with the start on site date May 2014. Project supported by Coastal Communities Fund,Welsh Government, Sustainable Development Fund and Halen Mon.

Climate Change

We are worried about damage the recent storms are doing to our coastline and to salt making sites.
Please let us know if you have any photographs of damage.

English Heritage produced a report in 2012 highlighting the threats from sea level rises and climate change.
Download link - Climate Change and the Historic Environment

Digital Back Copies of The Mundling Stick

The Lion Salt Works Project has made available all the back copies of the newsletter, The Mundling Stick written by Andrew Fielding whilst he was Project Director of the Lion Salt Works Trust employed by Vale Royal Borough Council. The newsletter was a quarterly publication produced from 1995 until Andrew left the project in 2010.

Councillor Stuart Parker, Executive Member for Culture and Economy, said: “The Mundling Stick newsletters are a real asset to the historic story of the Lion Salt Works.

“They illustrate the vital role the Trust has played in bringing us to where we are today – with the £8.8m restoration of this unique historic site well underway.

“I am delighted that the newsletters can now be accessed online. Not only is this fascinating resource more accessible to a wider audience, it is also preserved for future generations.”Trust Chairman Nick Hunt said: “The Lion Salt Works Trust have always regarded the Mundling Stick as a primary way of communicating the salt heritage story to local and wider interest groups.

“It will be an invaluable archive in understanding how the Salt Works came to be regenerated.”

Talk to Frodsham History Society, Cheshire

THE HISTORY OF TRADITIONAL SALT MAKING IN THE UK

Andrew Fielding will be talking to the 

Frodsham & District History Society 

on 

Monday 3rd February 

at 7.30pm.

meet at the Main Street Community Church, main street, Frodsham Cheshire WA6 7DF