Salt making.
basil | 11/13/2005 | 1:25 pm
Salt stackers.
Salt making.
While the fireman shovels coal into the furnace beneath the iron salt pans the saltmakers rake off the crystalising salt from the brine and pack elm boxes to dry into blocks. The Romans used this principle in Droitwich, except with lead pans. Coupled with lead plates and lead crystal glass, this contaminated salt led to the mental fall of the Roman Empire. Max.
Droitwich Salt As the boiling brine crystallised it was raked into tapered Elm wooden tubs to dry into blocks for domestic use. Max
Salt blocks drying in the warehouse.
This was how it was sold to housewives, cut into smaller blocks by the grocer or a street trader using a rusty saw. My mother used to say “Wait until he has served a few neighbours and his saw will be clean” Max
