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...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.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM25A43_099

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

10,8Mo (982,1Ko) / 28,3cm x 9,5cm / 3344 x 1125 (300dpi)

Mots clés

England arts industry chimneys danger art dangerous Earth British cracks crack dramatic industrial chimney century mine Britain newspapers press print salt concept collapsing cracking B&W collapse collapsed cheshire engraved engraving peril 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century salt mine The Print Collector Illustrated London News Northwich subsidence TGN wood engraving ILN newspaper Unknown 19th-century The Illustrated London News