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Catalyst Museum @catalystarchives.bsky.social · 4d

Great to see some of the original features in the theatre (this part of the building dates back to the early 1900s), which are still visible and we must be one of the greenest organisations as we still have those tables in the last photo!

Catalyst Museum @catalystarchives.bsky.social · 4d

Here are some photos taken by ICI Weston Point Studios but they are of an Open Day at the Catalyst in 1993.

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Catalyst Museum @catalystarchives.bsky.social · 4d

When worlds collide! One of the joys of rescuing several hundred thousand negatives is not knowing what will turn up next. Not for the first time do we see the long association that chemical firms have had with our museum since its inception.

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Catalyst Museum @catalystarchives.bsky.social · 13d

Hot off the press - the latest on ICI Weston Point Studios rescue :)

Jude Wilde @heyjudewilde.bsky.social · 13d

I'm not being negative ...
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Judith Wilde | Substack

Heritage Manager at the Cat.

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Catalyst Museum @catalystarchives.bsky.social · 27d

You never know what will appear in our #iciwestonpointstudios photographic negatives. This charming photo of a room in a Swedish designed #lundbydollshouse from 1980. The photo was taken due to the #vivelle (fabric) being manufactured by ICI #iciarchives #dollshouses

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Catalyst Museum @catalystarchives.bsky.social · Sep 20

⭐It's Today!⭐
Join us at the Catalyst Museum for Heritage Weekend between 10 and 5.

Meet our friends from Halton Heritage Partnership

Explore 3 floors of ICI Weston Point Studios photographs on temporary display plus our permanent galleries and current art exhibition.

Free entry.

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Catalyst Museum @catalystarchives.bsky.social · Sep 5

Very sad to see that HRH Duchess of Kent has passed away. Katharine had a long association with ICI and Brunner Mond and was the great granddaughter of Sir John Brunner.

Pictured here on one of the many visits she made to the region in 1973 for the centenary of Brunner Mond

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Catalyst Museum @catalystarchives.bsky.social · Aug 30

Unexpected find on a strip of 1976 negatives today of ICI Weaver Power Station. The other 29 images are showing the wear to the turbine blades and this little gem is a moment in time where the photographer had taken a snap of the workers. They look happy in their work :)

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Catalyst Museum @catalystarchives.bsky.social · Aug 4

Motor racing gets the ICI logo ... in 1992

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Ste Lingard @stelingard.bsky.social · Aug 2

One of the staircases leading from the front lawns up to Marbury Hall, #Cheshire (pic my own), & an aerial image from before the hall was demolished in 1969 (pic via the Friends of Anderton & Marbury). The site has been a country park since the late 1970s - a local treasure. #StaircaseSaturday

A short, wide staircase in some slightly overgrown parkland, relict from a former country house, now demolished.

An aerial view (black and white) of Marbury Hall. From: https://foam.merseyforest.uk/?cat=20

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Catalyst Museum @catalystarchives.bsky.social · Jul 31

The trouble they went to for a First Aid Comp - look at the detail of the car!

In 1982 you can be sure an ICI First Aider could take the right steps if you came off your motorbike #iciwestonpointstudios #photographicarchives #iciarchives #winningtonworks

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Catalyst Museum @catalystarchives.bsky.social · Jul 30

Would you like to see a couple of 1992 photos looking over from Runcorn to West Bank? A few zoom-ins of the originals scanned at v high resolution and ... does Eddie still love Kathy?!

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Catalyst Museum @catalystarchives.bsky.social · Jul 5

Just one small box ... of many #iciarchives #westonpointstudios

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Catalyst Museum @catalystarchives.bsky.social · Jun 27

Glad to have found the negative of this photo in our recently rescued set. This small glass figurine done by an ICI glass blower for the owner of Weston Point Studios to mark 1 year of independent trading. The original model but it's in safe hands with the original owner thank goodness :)

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Halton Heritage Partnership @haltonhp.bsky.social · Jun 26

#ThrowbackThursday Photograph showing wagon belonging to the United Alkali Company, outside Sullivan's offices (later Pilkington Sullivan). The products on display are ones packed by Greenbank Works c1920. Also - here are some women workers from Greenbank Works!
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Catalyst Museum @catalystarchives.bsky.social · Jun 26

Dulcine - where's she now, eh! Dulcine was shown to have 200 times the sweetening power of sugar made with phosgene amongst other ingredients! Funny to think that the research into this was nearly 100 years ago. ICI with their fingers in every [apple] pie :) #iciarchives #unitedalkalico

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Catalyst Museum @catalystarchives.bsky.social · Jun 6

Sandra has achieved a milestone on behalf of our museum today as her hard work has resulted in 50% of our ICI General Chemicals technical reports scanned. No small task. A quick reckon up shows she still has the all of the boxes in the last photo, plus another ½ again - when you put it like that ...

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Catalyst Museum @catalystarchives.bsky.social · Jun 1

VERA for ICI Girls - she has plenty to say in the ICI Magazines :)

Jude Wilde @heyjudewilde.bsky.social · Jun 1

Meet Vera - she knows it ALL! My latest Substack from the world of women in ICI ... in 1928
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VERA for I.C.I. Girls - Jan 1928

A fascinating look at the section of the ICI Magazine given over to women from 1928 until 1939. Hints and tips for the modern woman about town ...

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Catalyst Museum @catalystarchives.bsky.social · May 30

Our recently acquired photographic archive is feeding my obsession with pre-computer era plant models. This one 1981 - no idea what it is as yet.

Never mind your lego - you could sell these as a kit. We'd have played with this for hours! #stillwould #plantmodels #iciarchives

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Catalyst Museum @catalystarchives.bsky.social · May 25

Hand held mini computer used by #nalfloc in 1982. You can see why we all thought we'd be wearing silver suits by the millennium :) #80scomputing #nalflocwatertreatment #nalco

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Catalyst Museum @catalystarchives.bsky.social · May 20

Always enjoy a hand-drawn diagram! Calcium Chloride Dryers - Brine Circulation - what's not to like. Photo is from our Weston Point collection in 1981 #westonpointstudios #iciarchives

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Catalyst Museum @catalystarchives.bsky.social · May 15

A few from our recently acquired negatives - @woolworthsuk in St Annes. A bargain 89p in 1990! Photos were taken as the display case is Perspex - good old ICI.

#westonpointstudios #iciarchives #blackpoolrock

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Catalyst Museum @catalystarchives.bsky.social · May 9

A wonderful donation with a few copies of INEOS INCH - thank you to Lisa who managed to get her hands on a few for us.

We can’t wait to receive the rest of them and have a complete collection!

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Catalyst Museum @catalystarchives.bsky.social · May 5

Latest Substack - how to rescue far too many photographic negatives in one go :)
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ICI Weston Point Studios

6. We're doing it ...

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Catalyst Museum @catalystarchives.bsky.social · May 5

Love seeing the detail in the background of a photo. This is on the wall in a plant control room in 1981 - I now want the original :) #iciarchives #rocksavage #cm2plant

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