Pharmaceutical Millstones - Widnes, UK - Millstones on Waymarking.com

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. link

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

Type of mill: Other What did this millstone make?: Pharmeceutical drugs Status of Stone: Public Display Website containing relating information: Not listed

Visit Instructions:
Please describe your visit to the waymark and/or include a picture of the waymark.

Recent Visits/Logs:

There are no logs for this waymark yet.