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Brooks Lane, MIDDLEWICH, CW10 0QG

The unusually named road is part of a small business park. The tyre marks in the foreground show that HGVs all come from along Brooks Lane from the left. Although it is much nearer to the main road the other way, that involves going over a hump-backed bridge Image

The memorial inscription above the list of names reads "TO THE GLORIOUS MEMORY OF THE MEN FROM THESE WORKS WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1919" with a further addition for WW2. The name of "these works" is not stated but the UKNIWM entry http://www.ukniwm.org.uk (ref. 42850) reveals it to be Brunner, Mond & Co. According to Historic England, this memorial was one of several designed for the company by Thomas Arthur Darcy Braddell (1884-1970) at their sites in Silvertown, Winnington, Lostock, Sandbach and Middlewich, and the Mond Mausoleum at St Pancras and Islington Cemetery. Source: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1452765?section=official-list-entry

This is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and is the only intact wild brine pumping plant over a hand dug shaft in the UK. It dates from 1889 and originally was pumped by steam power and supplied an open pan salt works that was immediately adjacent. It later pumped brine to a chemical works near Sandbach where the brine was electrolysed to produce chlorine, sodium hydroxide and hydrogen. The pumps were later electrically driven and the well was used until 1977 when wild brine pumping stopped due to subsidence. The chemical works near Sandbach were demolished in 2010. This excellent little museum is open one weekend per month in the summer. This is inside the pumphouse with pump No. 1 closest to the camera and pump No. 3 behind it. (Pump No. 2 was in a separate building.) The pump is by John Thom of Patricroft and the motor is by Mather and Platt.

This is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and is the only intact wild brine pumping plant over a hand dug shaft in the UK. It dates from 1889 and originally was pumped by steam power and supplied an open pan salt works that was immediately adjacent. It later pumped brine to a chemical works near Sandbach where the brine was electrolysed to produce chlorine, sodium hydroxide and hydrogen. The pumps were later electrically driven and the well was used until 1977 when wild brine pumping stopped due to subsidence. The chemical works near Sandbach were demolished in 2010. This excellent little museum is open one weekend per month in the summer.

Trent and Mersey Canal, just below Middlewich Top Lock 72

The top one of a flight of three locks on the Trent & Mersey Canal. The paddles have just been opened to lower a boat, causing a visible surge in the water level in the short stretch of water around the bend to the middle lock Image

A narrowboat emerges from the lock after the water level has been lowered - see Image