salt manufacture

[ScouseBoy]

Found something on the internet about salt mines at Skegness  being known as "Little Leicester"  during second world war.  Did your person own property near Skegness?

[a-l]

Thankyou Wiggy and Scouseboy everything helps. To my knowledge he didn't have any property at Skegness.       I'm sorry I forgot to add that it was 1840's.

[mazi]

Droitwich in Worcestershire was also a place where salt was extracted, anywhere where there was salt deposits could support a small extraction industry.

Mike

[a-l]

Thankyou very much Mazi , I didn't know that. I can only think he must have moved at somepoint then.                           

[mazi]

 Much of the salt in Cheshire went to feed the giant chemical factories of Brunner Mond and ICI, table salt is a much more refined product, I have seen a suggestion that salt from the Norfolk cost was transported to the Midlands,  I wonder if he was getting raw salt and refining and packaging it into retail packets

Mike

[a-l]

Thankyou for the information, I'm learning a lot today. That is a possibility , I've never heard of salt manufacture there and wondered if it could be a specific salt used on a small scale. I tried Google but it was mainly about Walker's crisps.

[mazi]

There were many other things that were called salt or salts in the 19th century, as in     What you need is a dose of salts.  . Epsom salts.  Also smelling salts, every lady had a tiny bottle of those in their handbag.  I could probably think of more but I am trying to get the grass cut while the sun is shining 

Mike

[a-l]

Yes that's the kind of thing I was thinking of but did it occur in Leics though. Hope the sunshine lasts for you.                           Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, weren't Epsom Salts used in beer brewing?

[Brie]

I think Skegness was known as Little Leicester as it was where Leicester factory workers and others took their fortnight's holiday. When I was a child in Leicestershire many people still took their July fortnight in "Skeggy" although this was beginning to die out as overseas travel became more popular.

Sorry that it doesn't help the OP's request

Brie