WEEK 8 - Day 31 Consolidating Scaffolding and Cleaning

Today was a day of preparation before moving into new areas around the site.
We needed to scaffold up areas around Salt Pans 3 and 4 to provide inspection walkways for the architects.
Next week we move into the earliest stove houses and warehouses for Salt Pans 1 and 2. The ground areas have elements of collapsed roof structures which need clearing to allow the scaffold team access. Later, the build up of salt from the stove areas will be removed as this is holding a reservoir of damp inside the buildings leading to continual decay.
Our perimeter fencing is quickly being installed. Each of the posts is being hand dug because the fence line is either within the scheduled monument area, or is inaccessible to machines, but is should be all in place by the end of next week.


The scaffolding has been repositioned within the loading bay to allow decayed roofing from the Packing Area to be tidied away. To the North (right) of the Packing Area the western end of the Link Bridge between Stove House 5 and Stove House 2 is being photographed and recorded before it too is removed.
The ridge in the centre of the picture is one of the earliest parts of the salt works dating to the 1890's.


Below the Packing Room floor is a passage way that runs beneath Stove House 1 towards the canal. The collapsed staircase used to rise to a landing and door on the north end of Stove House 3. The door was later bricked up. This area is now lit by daylight because both the floor above, which connected Warehouse 2 to Warehouse 4, and the roof has collapsed in this area.