Chance & Hunt's Salt Works, Stafford
A worker sawing salt blocks at Chance and Hunt's Salt Works, Stafford Common.
Brine deposits were discovered under Stafford Common in 1877, during a search for water supplies for the town. In 1893 ...
Chance & Hunt's Salt Works, Stafford
Workers unloading salt crystals into a railway wagon at Chance and Hunt's Salt Works, Stafford Common.
Brine deposits were discovered under Stafford Common in 1877, during a search for water supplies ...
Chance & Hunt's Salt Works, Stafford
Workers repairing iron evaporation pans at Chance and Hunt's Salt Works, Stafford Common.
Brine deposits were discovered under Stafford Common in 1877, during a search for water supplies for the town. ...
Chance & Hunt's Salt Works, Stafford
Salt blocks being laid out to drain and dry in the hothouse at Chance and Hunt's Salt Works, Stafford Common.
Brine deposits were discovered under Stafford Common in 1877, during a search for water ...
Chance & Hunt's Salt Works, Stafford
Salt crystals being spread out to drain after evaporation at Chance and Hunt's Salt Works, Stafford Common.
Brine deposits were discovered under Stafford Common in 1877, during a search for water supplies ...
Chance & Hunt Salt Works, Stafford
Stoking furnaces at Chance & Hunt's Salt Works on Stafford Common. The furnaces heated large shallow iron pans containing brine. The water evaporated, leaving salt crystals.
Brine deposits were discovered ...
British Soda Co. Ltd., Open Pan Salt Works, Stafford, (6)
Pump House, Stafford Common.
Brine deposits were discovered under Stafford Common in 1877, during a search for water supplies for the town. In 1893 the Stafford Salt and Alkali Co. was founded on ...
British Soda Co. Ltd., Open Pan Salt Works, Stafford, (5)
The man on the left is bagging ground lump salt, on the right the bags are being sewn using a mechanical stitcher.
Brine deposits were discovered under Stafford Common in 1877, during a search for ...
British Soda Co. Ltd., Open Pan Salt Works, Stafford, (4)
The workman is lifting blocks of salt onto a conveyor belt.
Brine deposits were discovered under Stafford Common in 1877, during a search for water supplies for the town. In 1893 the Stafford Salt ...
British Soda Co. Ltd., Open Pan Salt Works, Stafford, (3)
In this photograph a workman shovels salt into tubs. Once the salt had dried the tubs would be turned upside down to produce blocks of salt.
Brine deposits were discovered under Stafford Common in ...
British Soda Co. Ltd., Open Pan Salt Works, Stafford, (2)
Here two workmen are bagging salt in the storehouse.
Brine deposits were discovered under Stafford Common in 1877, during a search for water supplies for the town. In 1893 the Stafford Salt and Alkali ...
British Soda Co. Ltd., Open Pan Salt Works, Stafford, (1)
Storehouses, Common Road.
Brine deposits were discovered under Stafford Common in 1877, during a search for water supplies for the town. In 1893 the Stafford Salt and Alkali Co. was founded on Common ...
British Soda Co. Ltd., Open Pan Process, Stafford,
This workman is skimming the salt pan, a process which separates salt crystals from brine as it is heated in large shallow pans. This is known as the open pan process.
Brine deposits were discovered ...
G. W. Wellings funeral directors, Derby Street, Burton-upon-Trent
On the extreme left of this scene are the premises of G.W. Wellings, Funeral Directors, who also ran motor tours and excursions.
The large sign above the first charabanc, which hangs over an alley-way ...
Bus Conductresses, Armitage
Two Armitage women who worked as bus or tram conductresses or 'clippies' in Birmingham during the First World War. The badges on their hats include the Stafford Knot and look very similar to cap badges ...
English Electric staff at Keele Hall
A large formal group of English Electric staff pictured at Keele Hall. William (Bill) Leonard Cotton is in back row, in front of 2nd arch, 2nd from left in front of 1st window pane. He worked at English ...
Rugeley B Power Station
Oil on canvas. A view of Rugeley B Power Station with cottages in left foreground and Lea Hall Colliery far right. Signed, bottom right: 'George Busby 84'. In gilt wood frame, unglazed.
Artist: ...
Theological College, Lichfield
The College was founded in 1857 and was located in this building situated on the south side of the Cathedral Close from 1872. The Theological College closed in 1972.
The college is viewed from Minster ...