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The exhibits range from test tubes to a 20-ton cast iron caustic soda finishing vessel, laboratory equipment, and chemical samples. The industrial focus of the collection is the salt-based chemical industries of Merseyside, South Lancashire, North Cheshire and Mid Cheshire, other chemical industries in these areas are also covered. Catalyst has ...
Freegle was formed on 11 September 2009 after many Freecycle groups in the UK decided to break away from the US parent organisation following disagreements on how groups in the UK should operate and the dismissal of long-term UK moderators, who had been speaking out. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Halton (/ h ɒ l t ə n /) is a unitary authority area with borough status in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, North West England.The borough was created in 1974 and contains the towns of Runcorn and Widnes and the civil parishes of Daresbury, Hale, Halebank, Moore, Preston Brook, and Sandymoor. [5]
The Freecycle Network (TFN) is a private, nonprofit organization [5] registered in Arizona, US and is a charity in the United Kingdom. [6] TFN coordinates a worldwide network of "gifting" groups to divert reusable goods from landfills .
Work was carried out at Widnes Laboratory from 1951 to 1956 which led to the discovery of halothane in 1955. [3] Halothane gas was the most common anaesthetic for many years. There had been deaths with halothane and liver damage, and was discontinued from the 1980s.
The forum also relocated, in around 2004, to the new Forum Building at Widnes Waterfront, which had been established as the Borough's economic development zone. [11] [12] The town hall was then left empty and deteriorating, [13] until a developer, Stephen Lawler, acquired the building, and carried out some limited restoration works. [14]
Tower Building, originally the office of Hutchinson & Co, now part of the Catalyst Science Discovery Centre Widnes is an industrial town in the Borough of Halton, Cheshire, England, on the north bank of the River Mersey where it narrows at Runcorn Gap. The town contains 24 buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings. Of these, 5 are ...
Cheshire was incorporated in 1793, and its residents were strongly partisan in the election battles of the country's early days. The Adams–Jefferson election of 1800 was hard fought, and Cheshire was the only Berkshire town that favored Jefferson. When their candidate won the election, the town searched for a way to show their support and pay ...