The Lion Salt works, adjacent to the Trent & Mersey Canal in Cheshire records the hey day of salt production in England. Salt has been extracted from brine since the Roman times and ever since. Enormous salt deposits from millennia ago lie in two separate layers under the whole of Cheshire. Waster pumped down has dissolved part of these strata and the land above quietly sighed and like a poor sad soufflé has deflated. Water poured into these slow landslips and now forms *flashes*. The Weaver river even flowed upstream for days on end when the land groaned, sighed and sank .
A post industrial landscape that is forever changed.
Go and see the museum and vote for it on the National Lottery website – UPDATE – it won! 6000+ votes and it came top of the list.
Now all it needs is an OO model of the Lion Salt Works railway wagon
