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Thanks to our funders without whom this project could not have been successfully achieved.  We look forward to welcoming the public to the site in

The restoration of Murgatroyd’s Brine Pumps is finally completed! This project had a couple of curve balls and a pandemic to deal with, but we are finally

All of the heavy lifting was completed today with the assistance of Lifting Projects UK –  brine tank positioned on its  plinth,  old gantry legs

Another week and more jobs completed on the Murgatroyd’s site, in stunning sunshine. The building is looking different with the dark oak timber preservative applied,

At last! After 43 years, Murgatroyd’s Brine Pumps are reconnected to the electricity supply. The old transformer pole once again supplies power to the building.

A new safety fence has been installed by volunteers using traditional chestnut fencing to allow the wildflower banks behind – which will be in bloom

The site was weeks away from opening for its first full visitor season when Covid struck so, instead of greeting guests, we had to make

Ideal Standard closed its factory in Middlewich in 2011 with a loss of 249 jobs. The original pottery works were established by John Steventon &

We recently added our online Archive to the Virtual Museum, the result of a Heritage funded project to digitise our archives, particularly The George Twigg