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I was in Saltney library last week and asked if they have any local history books.  I was astonished to realise just how industrial it once was.  It basically grew up as a railway junction and from around the 1840s to the 1960s railway engines were built here on Boundary Lane.  Also on Boundary Lane were two major ironworks making anchors for ships (hence the Anchor pub) and chains with links the width of tree trunks.  King George V visited Woods chainmakers in 1917, probably suggesting that the chains/anchors were for battleships and the local primary school is called Wood Memorial school.  Also on the Dee were shipbuilders called Crichtons.  From a map of 1913 there were several manure works on the Dee and also an oil works - not petrol but the other type of oil, not sure exactly what though.   So, quiet little suburb of Chester that it now seems, it was once a thriving industrial area.  So choose your pick, there are any number of industries that a chemist might have worked in although perhaps the oil works seems to fit best?