3-070-970 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Subsidence of land at the Northwich Salt-Mines, 1881. '...remarkable disturbances in the surface of the land...The catastrophe is already of large dimensions, and must be productive of great losses; but the apprehensions it has created in the neighbourhood are, if possible, worse, as the sinking of the buildings, which is always going on more or less in Northwich, must be dangerously accelerated. The Sketches shown in our page of Engravings were taken by our own Artist at the Witton and Dunkirk Salt-works of Messrs. N. Ashton and Sons, and at the Platt's Hill Saltworks of Mr. John Thompson. Witton is the name of the largest quarter of Northwich, and Dunkirk is part of Witton. The chimney fell at the Dunkirk Works; and the cottage, which was inhabited by a man named Tomkinson, is also situated at Dunkirk'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.