UK: Peak District Wildfire Continues Near Errwood Reservoir, Roads Closed, Residents Warned

A wildfire continued near Errwood Reservoir in Peak District National Park as of Thursday, May 1. The fire, which started the day before, led to road closures and warnings for nearby residents to keep windows shut.

Sale field

In Sakaide City, Kagawa Prefecture, Mr. Shinichi Nakayama has been protecting the traditional Iruhama method of salt production for 50 years. 　 <Caption> Mr. Shinichi Nakayama, who has been making salt using the old Iruhama method; scenery of the salt fields and people working in the salt town of Sakaide City, Kagawa Prefecture; a statue of Michitaka Kume Eizaemon; Mr. Shinichi Nakayama taking care of his dog while naked; Mr. Shinichi Nakayama wearing a necktie at a meeting to build a shrine at the city hall; a father and son preserving the traditional salt making method; Mr. Nakayama and his son working all day from early in the morning. Mr. Nakayama and his son working all day from early in the morning, making an effort to produce good quality salt. Date of shooting unknown, release date: September 4, 1964.

The Dying salt field

Dying Salt Fields (Miyagi, Kagawa, Ehime) Two-thirds of the nation's salt fields are disappearing. (Includes 　scenes of salt fields in their final days in 1959, when two-thirds of the nation's salt fields were to disappear. 　 In Kagawa, salt overflowed in the open air instead of being stored in warehouses; people changed jobs as salt fields became driving ranges and vacant lots; in Watanoha salt fields, Miyagi Prefecture, young beachcombers changed jobs; women went from cottage industry to big business; old people went into oyster farming. Date of shooting unknown, Release date: September 18, 1959.

The People of Okunoto

The people of Okunoto. Farmers build thousand paddy fields. Fishermen, who do not have a fishing port, make salt in pumping salt fields. There are also migrant workers and peddlers. 　 The people of Okunoto, despite the rough seas of the Sea of Japan and the poverty of their half-farming, half-fishing existence, build Senmaida rice paddies (paddies built on sloping land), people make salt the old-fashioned way, the last of the Agehama salt paddies where salt is pumped with labor, the cutting down of Asunaro forests, a tribe of fishermen turned plasterers, women peddling fish, and women peddling fish and vegetables at the morning market in Iida. Women peddling fish, women peddling fish and vegetables at the morning market in Iida, a general merchandise market held in each village 　before winter preparations, and women leaving for Kansai in search of work before winter. The film was shot on an unknown date, and was released on November 4, 1960.