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Brine Well Crescent, BROMSGROVE, B60 4FY

Chemical works more or less on the site of a salt works. The area is famous for salt.

On the site of the old salt works.

This short arm of the Worcester and Birmingham Canal led to wharfs in John Corbett's 19th century salt works. It is now filled in after about forty metres. The bridge remains to support the main line towpath.

The Worcester and Birmingham Canal was constructed in stages between 1791 and 1815. Grain, timber and agricultural produce were carried to the Midlands. Industrial goods and coal were carried down towards Worcester, often for onward transport to Bristol. Pairs of donkeys were often used in preference to horses, maybe because they could easily be put onto the boats which had to be legged (or pulled by tug) through the tunnels near Birmingham. Stoke Works owes its presence mainly to the enterprise of John Corbett. Salt had been mined at Droitwich since before Roman times, but in the 1850s the engineer, John Corbett, discovered a method of extracting it by digging a shaft down to the seam. He would then pour water in, then pump out the brine from which the salt could be retrieved. He made a huge fortune. However, he built good houses for his workers and assisted in many philanthropic enterprises. Beyond the buildings on the right is a bridge carrying the main line towpath where an arm of the canal (now filled in) entered Corbett's salt works.

The Bayer synthetic latex plant and Weston Hall Road, Stoke Prior, in the autumn of 1983

The Worcester and Birmingham Canal was constructed in stages between 1791 and 1815. Grain, timber and agricultural produce were carried to the Midlands. Industrial goods and coal were carried down towards Worcester, often for onward transport to Bristol. Pairs of donkeys were often used in preference to horses, maybe because they could easily be put onto the boats which had to be legged (or pulled by tug) through the tunnels near Birmingham. Stoke Works owes its presence mainly to the enterprise of John Corbett. Salt had been mined at Droitwich since before Roman times, but in the 1850s the engineer, John Corbett, discovered a method of extracting it by digging a shaft down to the seam. He would then pour water in, then pump out the brine from which the salt could be retrieved. He made a huge fortune. However, he built good houses for his workers and assisted in many philanthropic enterprises. On the right is the bridge carrying the main line towpath where an arm of the canal (now filled in) entered Corbett's salt works.