Spike Island, Cheshire

Spike Island, Cheshire

Spike Island, Halton Borough, Widnes, England, a birthplace of the British chemical industry, is a reclaimed toxic waste site. The island is in the Mersey Estuary, a Ramsar Convention site.

Its maze of abandoned chemical factories, rail lines, canal and industrial dockage, and industrial pollution, which had declined into a rust belt toxic wilderness, was reclaimed as woodland, wetlands and green space between 1975 and 1982. A surviving warehouse is now the home of the Catalyst Museum, the only science museum in the UK solely devoted to chemistry.

Spike Island was the site of an outdoor concert by the Manchester group The Stone Roses in May 1990.

References

External links

* [http://www.catalyst.org.uk/ The Catalyst Museum]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/sevenages/events/indie/stone-roses-at-spike-island/ BBC Short film on the Stone Roses Spike Island concert.]


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