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It's happened again! I am getting really tired of security people, and others, trying to tell me that photography is not allowed. In this case I was with two friends taking photographs from the canal towpath outside the Lostock Works of Brunner Mond. Then this guy arrives in his little white van, crosses the bridge and comes up the path shouting that we must stop immediately and that photography is not allowed. After I asked him who he was and why no photos allowed he said because Brunner Mond didn't allow it. I suggested that Brunner Mond had no say in whether I could take photos from a public place and he went off to get the police. Funnily enough no police arrived and when we saw him later he was still insisting that we could not take photos. I wonder how many people are put off by this sort of intimidation.

This building at the Brunner Mond soda ash works provides a fine view of the Winnington cricket field. Originally built for the concentration by evaporation of Caustic soda produced by the lime-soda process at Winnington. The building was about twice the length in the picture extending towards Solvay Road. It became largely redundant when ICI ceased producing caustic by the lime-soda method and brought in 47% (100 Twadell) liquor mainly from the electrolytic cell plants at Castner Kellner works in Runcorn. Part of the evaporation plant was then converted for the production of Calcium chloride which was a biproduct from the Ammonia-soda process. Thanks to Bob Hickson for this information.

Winnington - manufacturing soda ash.