On Friday 23 June, the UK’s prestigious Geologists’ Association unveiled four new display panels at the multi award-winning Lion Salt Works Museum in Northwich, Cheshire. Funded by the Association’s Curry Fund, the boards give in-depth geological information about the salt beds beneath Cheshire and are designed to appeal to the country’s many amateur and professional […]

Saltscape’s group of local history volunteers and community archaeologists visited the local archives office in Chester last month.   Cheshire Archives and Local Studies collects, protects and promotes interest in and the use of records and printed material relating to the historic county of Cheshire. The service identifies, collects and cares for archives and publications […]

As well as time-travelling and stone carving, we’ll be doing traditional canalware painting at this year’s Middlewich Folk and Boat Festival.  You can practise on a paper plate first, and then try your hand at decorating some stoneware with Jane Marshall.    Jane , from Day Star Theatre,  has been running workshops for adults and […]