McEvoy & Holt's Britannia Brand.
Location:
- Grid reference: TQ61217501
- x=561210
- y=175010
- 51°27'4"N; 0°19'13"E
- Civil Parish: Swanscombe, Kent
Clinker manufacture operational: 1880-1902
Approximate total clinker production: 290,000 tonnes
Raw materials:
- Upper Chalk (Seaford Chalk Formation: 85-88 Ma) from the NCBC quarries
- Thames Alluvial Clay
Ownership:
- 1880-1900 McEvoy and Holt
- 1900-1902 APCM (Blue Circle)
Also known as McEvoy & Holt’s. This seems to have had 16 chamber kilns throughout (output 400 t/week). The company made itself unpopular among British manufacturers by openly admitting the practice, almost universal in the 1890s, of adulterating cement, and the plant was promptly closed after the APCM takeover. There was no rail link, all product being despatched by barge from Tower pier. Completely re-developed, it is now a light industrial site.
Power supply
The plant was driven directly by a 250 HP steam engine.
Rawmills
No information
No rotary kilns were installed.
Sources::
- Primary Sources:
- Greenhithe Archive
- Ordnance Survey 1:2500 mapping
- BGS mapping and monographs
- Confirmatory Sources: