Sujet
Subsidence of land at the Northwich Salt-Mines, 1881. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
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.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM25A42_384
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Droits gérés
Format disponible
11,2Mo (973,4Ko) / 28,3cm x 9,9cm / 3348 x 1170 (300dpi)