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George Lomas Murgatroyd
Site location 1
Site location 2
The boiler house
The underlying geology
The brine shaft
The gantry
The open pan process
Murgatroyd’s soda works
The John Thom Pumps (see illustration on the right)
The air vessel
Associated companies
Pump House 5
Murgatroyd’s Elworth Works
The Hooker Cell
Rail transport
Notes on Middlewich salt history
– Iron Age
– Roman
– Medieval
– Industrial Revolution