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Heritage Talk: Winsford’s Inspector of Nuisances: the Development of a “Vile Town’s” Infrastructure, 1890-1930
March 9 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
No matter where you are in the world please join us via Zoom on Saturday 9th March 2024 at 11am GMT for our latest #engleseabrook Heritage Talk.
Improbable as it sounds today, in the early 1900s the centre of Winsford in rural Cheshire was blanketed with toxic black clouds that blocked out the sunlight; living conditions were miserable and, with no running water or sewerage system, unhealthy. One visitor described the town as a “vile place, akin to the black hole of Calcutta”. The cause? Hundreds of chimneys belching out clouds of smoke from the open pan salt making process heated by the nation’s dirtiest coal. One local Primitive Methodist preacher led the fight to tackle these problems.
David Nellist, retired Operations Director with Nestlé UK, is now Chair of the Winsford History Society. A trustee of the Middlewich Heritage Trust and member of Nantwich Museum’s research group, David is involved in a number of local history projects.
The Zoom meeting details are:
https://zoom.us/j/99711104002?pwd=elN0RjNtMzNEWWxMOTB6aGkwSUo5UT09
Meeting ID: 997 1110 4002
Passcode: 414327