3-070-971 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Subsidence of land at the Northwich Salt-Mines, 1881. '...remarkable disturbances in the surface of the land...Platt's Hill rock-salt mine, fifty acres in extent, is submerged, and can never again be worked as a rock-salt mine. Fears are entertained that several other rock-salt mines in the neighbourhood will be inundated, and a careful watch is being kept. Another great chasm has opened across the roadway close to Messrs. N. Ashton and Son's salt-works, and within the area in which the principal part of the disturbance has taken place. The roar caused by the sudden collapse of the ground was heard at a considerable distance. The new opening is a precipitous goblet-shaped chasm about fifty feet in depth. The whole of the neighbouring ground is cracked and shows signs of tumbling into the opening'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.