
Chemistry is probably the single most important intellectual endeavour for the impermeaphile. Somehow the magical stuff that oozes from Hevea brasziliensis has to be spread out on fabric and got to stay there, nicely: naphtha and sulphur to the rescue!
Chemistry is at the heart of Warrington. Joseph Priestley, who nearly discovered the element oxygen, lived here in the late 18th Century, and latterly Unilever etches its giant microchip of pipes along the Bank Quay Railway Station.