To restore the surviving salt pnas, stove houses and warehouses comprising the Lion Salt Works at Marston, Northwich Cheshire as an industrial museum with cafe and shop. To demonstrate the historic processes involved in making crystal salt and block salt, from the prehistoric to 1986 when the Lion Salt Works closed. We are seeking £500,000 to make up the missing match funding to a £7m project Funding comprises HLF support of £4.96m, Vale Royal Borough Council £750,000, CCC £100,000, NWDA requested £750,000, Interreg request £375,000)
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The Lion Salt Works featured in the second series of the BBC 2 series Restoration. We have also advised the BBC series Coast and Channel 4's Time Team in the ancient art of salt making. Our Director has written the Shire Publications book - The Salt Industry. The Lion Salt Works has been chosen as an Anchor Point in the European Route of Industrial Heritage and has been selected as a pilot project for an Interreg IVb programme, CHANGE being supported by the Mersey Basin Camapign. The Lion Salt Works will become a tourist destination within a proposed Weaver Valley Regional Park. The Trust proposes using biofuels for heating the buildings and would like additional funding to build a working open pan salt works to restore 'block salt' to fine food shops, this product will be branded 'Made in Cheshire'.