Pharmaceutical Millstones - Widnes, UK
Posted by: dtrebilc
N 53° 21.132 W 002° 44.032
30U E 517714 N 5911484
These millstones were used in the Evans Pharmaceutical Laboratories to grind drugs.
Waymark Code: WMT5R0
Location: North West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 09/30/2016
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The millstones are on display near to the entrance of the Catylist Museum an interactive science centre and museum, devoted to chemistry and how the products of chemistry are used in everyday life.
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The museum is near to Spike Island, an area between the River Mersey and the Sankey Canal and the area recognised as the birthplace of the British chemical industry. The museum is housed in an old four-storey building known as Tower Building constructed around 1860 by John Hutchinson as the administrative centre for his alkali chemical business and has since had a modern extension added to it that forms the museum entrance.
There is a plaque on the millstones with the following text.
THESE MILLSTONES WERE REMOVED FROM
EVANS PHARMACEUTICAL LAORATORIES,
FLEET STREET, LIVERPOOL.
WHERE THEY HAD BEEN IN USE FOR THE
GRINDING OF DRUGS FROM C. 1846 TO 1958