Slide set: [Chetham's Library Collection: salt mining in Cheshire] (lecture: privately made, at least 61 slides, in/after 1909)

Set details Slide listing

Descriptive data for this set (listed below slide images)

Slide 7

Slide 8

Slide 9

Slide 10

Slide 11

Property condemned through subsidence, Tabley Street

Slide 12

House in Warrington Road, Northwich, formerly level with street

Slide 13

View of Castle Street before it was raised

Slide 14

Slide 15

Slide 16

Slide 18

Slide 20

[House in four stages of lifting above street level]

Slide 21

Slide 24

[Map of England showing coal and salt deposits]

Slide 25

Slide 26

Annual export of salt from the United Kingdom (average 1902-4)

Slide 27

Slide 28

[Diagram showing process for salt extraction]

Slide 29

Slide 30

Handing-Spike / Instrument for Removing 'Seggars'

Slide 32

Slide 33

Slide 34

Salt Manufacture -- Boiling Brine / Brine Cistern

Slide 36

Slide 37[?]

Slide 38

Slide 39

Slide 40

Slide 41

Slide 42

Slide 43

Christ Church, Winsford -- Incumbent Rev. R.H. Main

Slide 44

[Terraced houses affected by subsidence]

Slide 45

Slide 46

Collapsed House, Leicester Street, Northwich, October 1901

Slide 47

Slide 48

Subsidence below the Verdin Park, Northwich

Slide 49

Slide 50

Slide 51

Slide 52

Slide 53

Street-lifting and Shop-lift in Northwich

Slide 54

Slide 55

View at Weston Point, Weston Mersey Lock on right

Slide 56

Slide 57

Subsidence near Wheat Sheaf Inn, Castle Street 1895

Slide 58

Slide 59

Slide 60

Slide 61

[62]

[Man standing by shafts of pumping engine]

[63]

What is seen when a drop of sea-water is evaporated under a microscope

[64]

[65]

[Diagram showing formation of salt deposit]

[66]

Basket used by women 'wallers' for draining salt

[67]

[Shop and terraced house affected by subsidence]

Number of slides

at least 61 (highest known slide number is 61)

Manufacturer

privately made, England

Date of first manufacture

unknown (earliest possible 1909)

People involved in slide production

MORGAN, J. (fl. 1900s) – photographer, slides 42, 54-55, 59

People appearing in slides

MAIN, Reverend R.H. (1868-1953) – slide 43

Notes

The numbering of the slides is as found marked in pencil on their binding strips, and does not appear to define a logical narrative order – the numbers are probably later cataloguing references rather than a contemporary running order.

Many of the exterior location views have been photographed from contemporary postcards.

Collections

55 slides in Chetham's Library, Manchester

Lucerna ID 3010291

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 22 October 2018

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Slide set: [Chetham's Library Collection: salt mining in Cheshire] (lecture: privately made, at least 61 slides, in/after 1909)