2-879-389 - Historic England Archive/Heritage Images

British Salt Factory, Faulkner Lane, Middlewich, Cheshire, 28/04/1971. The brine clarification plant at the British Salt factory. Work began on site on the 16th of April 1968 and was completed in early June 1969 with the factory officially opened by the Duke of Edinburgh on the 25th. It was the first industrial water treatment plant completed in the UK to use a system developed by Laing's French partner company, Degremont. This photograph was used in the December 1971 issue of Team Spirit, the Laing company newsletter.