Alan (aka Sally Spencer, in case you didn't know) was born, a few years after the end of the Second World War, in Marston, a salt panning village in Cheshire. It's between Northwich and Great Budworth on the map above, and is the basis of Salton in "The Salton Killings", Buckworth in "A Picnic in Eden", and Marston itself, which is where Becky grew up in "Salt of the Earth" and "Up Our Street".   The salt works dominated the village.The main building contained two large pans, which were over