Location:
- Grid reference: TQ72806699
- x=572800
- y=166990
- 51°22'34"N; 0°28'59"E
- Civil Parish: City of Rochester, Kent
Clinker manufacture operational: 1891-1911, 12/1919-1921
Approximate total clinker production: 179,000 tonnes
Raw materials:
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Upper Chalk (Lewes Nodular Chalk Formation: 88-90 Ma) from 573100,166900
- Medway Alluvial Clay
Ownership:
- 1/1891-1900 Borstal Manor Cement Co. Ltd
- 1900-1922 APCM (Blue Circle)
The plant was begun in the late 1880s by John Lamb Spoor, ex-manager of I. C. Johnson’s plant at Greenhithe, and on his bankruptcy, it was taken on in 1890 and completed by Percy J. Neate. It started with six Johnson chamber kilns (180 t/week). In 1897, eight Batchelor kilns were added, then six more in 1900 gave a final capacity of 600 t/week. The plant was used intermittently after takeover by APCM. The plant used only water transportation. After closure the site was cleared and is now part of a marina. The quarry is waste land.
Power supply
No information.
Rawmills
There was one rough washmill fed with raw chalk and clay, and one finishing washmill.
No rotary kilns were installed.
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