WEEK 5 - Day 20 Arrival of Timber Store

Our temporay building arrived this morning, on an Irish lorry with a Lithianian driver, containing a German building with erection engineers from London. The store will take three days to fully erect, but the frame will be finished today. Our work takes a break over the August Bank Holiday weekend, so Day 21 of the Enabling Works will continue on Tuesday 1 September 2009.























A dragonfly resting on a timber beside Pan No.5. Can anyone identify it please?

WEEK 5 - Day 19 Ground Works, Scaffolding, Local News

To view how the site looked this morning link to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4kHwgCSaVY
The preparations for erecting our temporary building store can be seen and there is a tour around and inside of Stove House 5. It is amazing that Henry Thompson only had this constructed in 1965, but it is to a much earlier design. Most of our work is targeted at recording and dismantling Stove House 5, so that it can be re-built on a new foundation. All materials will be stored and repaired for re-building in 2010. The revitalised building will house the Lion Salt Works Museum shop, cafe and interpretation centre. Much of the rest of this blog will detail how the dismantling will be carried out.

Site Manager, David Marsh gave a short tour to the editor of the Marston parish newsletter, Sarah Hubbard. Sarah has been passing on information about the start of our works to local residents through her monthly newsletter. To help her to understand the work she was given a close up view of the progress we have made. William Anelay Ltd are signed up to the Considerate Constructors Scheme - http://www.ccscheme.org.uk/ , so keeping our neighbours well informed is important to them, and helps to get feedback from locals who might have issues with aspects of the work. Our door is always open if anyone has any problems, or indeed if they want to tell us that we are exceeding their expectations.

WEEK 5 - Day 18 Dismantling Link Bridge & Site Survey

The link bridge between Stove House 5 and the main salt works complex was removed today. This allowed the scaffolding on the west side of Stove House 5 to be raised to the ridge at the top of the gable.
Scaffolding was extended to the est side of Stove House 5 to prop and secure the east wall before we can start to dismantle the salt pan and furnace structure. The pan is to be retained, but the furnace will be removed and the pan will be lowered to the ground and painted to help preserve it for the future.
Preparations for our temporary car park surface continued and a topographic survey was begun to plot in all our buildings and produce a contour survey of the ground surface.
There was a big thunderstorm this afternoon, which seems to be typical of the summer we have had this year.









Surveyors, Katie Barrowclough and Naomi Clarke, from Tower Surveys Ltd, Stoke-on-Trent, worked through sun, wind and rain to plot in all the features of the topography to refresh our site information.

WEEK 5 - Day 17 Timelapse record of works to Stove House 5

Julian Baum and Claire Duval of Take 27 have been helping set up a time lapse camera which will record work being carried out to Stove House 5. Over the coming weeks the whole of this building will be dismantled and stored ready for re-erection as part of the Phase 2 works.
The camera looks out of the upstairs window of the former Red Lion Inn, now the offices and exhibition area of the Lion Salt Works Project.

A sequence of the scaffolding being erected is now available, the work completed at the end of last week. Link to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6PNR74aoMQ

For information about the work of Take 27 go to http://www.take27.co.uk/

Work being completed today, includes additional scaffolding to the north of Stove House 5, ground works to the general site surface and temporary car parking for visitors, asbestos removal and dismantling of the link bridge between Stove House 5 and the main salt works complex.

























The nails have corroded, all the salt eating into the iron work, making the structure very unstable. The scaffold provides a safe working platform to photograph, label and remove the structure.

Much of our loading bay is made up of re-used timbers. One second hand telegraph post has this inscription GPO 1908 R