ABSTRACT
WALKER ALKALI WORKS SICK AND BENEFIT SOCIETY Rules are in existence for a society of this name dated 5 February 1868. It met at Walker’s, Newcastle on Tyne, Northumberland.
Source: PRO FS2/584.
WINSFORD SALTMAKERS ASSOCIATION Reg. 534 See Vol. 2, p. 318. The earliest and largest of the saltmakers unions formed, according to the Registrar of Friendly Societies, in 1846. From 1899 it met at the Brunner Guildhall, Over, Winsford and grew to a peak of membership of over 2,100 in 1915. At a later date its name was changed to Union of Salt Chemical and Industrial and General Workers.
