Salt Production In Stafford.

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c0tt0nt0p

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Gramaisc said:
It was hydraulic mining. You bored a hole, pumped water down it and it came up another hole as brine. You had little control over where the dissolved salt actually came from and no mean of shoring up any cavities created as it was washed away. Thus, subsidence occurred randomly, one of the worst affected areas was around the south end of Oxford Gardens, Corporation Street, Sandyford Street (particularly) and Crooked Bridge Road.

There were other salts works locally, not just at the Common - Baswich was fed from the Common, but there were works at Weston and Shirleywich, too - subsidence was less of an issue in rural areas.


Anyway, I don't think you're blonde.
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Thus explaining the wonky houses on corporation Street by the traffic lights!!
 
Glam

Glam

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So, why did the salt production stop? Yes I know I could Google it, but it's interesting to read all the answers.
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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The Hawk said:
It was Lotus Shoes that finally ended salt extraction in Stafford. They took British Soda Company Ltd and British Salt Ltd to court in 1969, regarding the subsidence being caused to the Lotus factory, and after going through the appeal process, Lotus won the case and salt extraction was finally ended in August 1970.
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Yeah, there was a lot of resistance and it was hard to actually prove that the salt extraction was the cause of the problems, however obvious it was that it was.
 
The Hawk

The Hawk

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This might be of interest. It's from a recent paper "Geological hazards from salt mining, brine extraction and natural salt dissolution in the UK" by Anthony H. Cooper (British Geological Survey).

Note the large areas prone to salt subsidence, in particular the mapped salt subsidence areas that coincide with the flashes on Doxey Marshes.

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The Hawk

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Gramaisc said:
Yeah, there was a lot of resistance and it was hard to actually prove that the salt extraction was the cause of the problems, however obvious it was that it was.
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I believe that Lotus were, to the satisfaction of the court, able to identify when the brine pumping was taking place and then correlate that with the worst cases of subsidence.
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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The Hawk said:
This might be of interest. It's from a recent paper "Geological hazards from salt mining, brine extraction and natural salt dissolution in the UK" by Anthony H. Cooper (British Geological Survey).

Note the large areas prone to salt subsidence, in particular the mapped salt subsidence areas that coincide with the flashes on Doxey Marshes.

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And interestingly close to the motorway viaduct.
 
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