'In Georgian and Victorian Cheshire, salt was one of the county’s most important exports. In the early 1790s, over 80 Mersey flats were kept busy transporting 58,000 tons of salt yearly to Liverpool. In fact Cheshire had more salt than it knew what to do with, and the manufacturers tried to strictly control output in order to keep prices up.

By 1850, 525,000 tons of white salt and 86,238 tons of rock salt were transported along the Weaver Navigation from the Cheshire salt towns.' 

Join us as we listen to Cheshire author Sue Wilkes, who specialises in family history, social history, industrial history and literary biography, take us through the history of this important Cheshire industry 

Sue's website  👉 https://suewilkes.blogspot.com/

NOTE:  This meeting is via Zoom and takes place at 7:30pm 

To express an interest in joining us please email  putting the date of the meeting in the subject line of the email, the zoom links will be forwarded a day or two before the meeting 

Image: Open pan salt making, Illustrated London News, 24 August 1850