WEEK 1 Day 1-2 - Setting up the Site

After all the fundraising, planning, site reports and studies - work is actually begining on site. You know it really has all started when the contractor arrives to set up on site, the full safety information gets posted, and you need those hard hats, high viz jackets and steel toecap boots.

The business end of the project has now been handed over to the contractors to begin the programme of 'Enabling Works' which is the First Phase of Restoring the Lion Salt Works.

The work will be described briefly over the coming weeks and we will follow the progress as it is carried out and completed. The Lion Salt Works Team at Cheshire West and Chester Council will be introduced together with the Design Team and Contractors.

The site is being divided into two sections - the northern sector, where the main salt works complex lies; Pan Houses, Brine Tank and the Pump House. This area is to be secured as the working area.

The southern half of the site will remain open for visitors during fixed opening times, but will be secured by a perimeter fence, again to make the site totally secure. The Lion Salt Works Trust and Friends of the Lion Salt Works will continue to open the exhibition centre in the former Red Lion Inn and pass on information about the history of the site and the progress of the restoration works as things move forward.

The first fence panels being erected around the northern perimeter of the site fronting the Trent and Mersey Canal.

Dividing the site in two. On a wet and dismal day at the end of July.