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Clinker manufacture operational: 1892-1934

Approximate total clinker production: 330,000 tonnes

Raw materials: Chalk Marl (West Melbury Marly Chalk Formation: 97-100 Ma) from quarry at 539600,248400, and later Grey Chalk (Zig-zag Chalk Formation: 94-97 Ma) and Chalk Marl by tramway from pit at 540030,247740

Ownership: East Anglian Cement Co. Ltd

This was the first Cambridgeshire plant to make genuine Portland cement by the wet process from the outset. It commenced with three Batchelor kilns, output 80 t/week, working a quarry originally opened for "coprolite". Two more kilns (56 t/week) were added in 1894, and four (114 t/week) in 1898, giving a total of 250 t/week. The plant continued in this condition until price-cutting in the Depression forced it out of the cement market. Transport was via the Great Northern railway, on which it was situated. It continued in business making hydraulic lime. The plant site has been returned to agriculture. The quarry is flooded.

Power supply

The plant was originally direct-driven by a 100 HP steam engine. Around 1900, this was replaced with gas engines - one for rawmilling, and one for finish milling.

Rawmills

There were two 14 ft washmills.

No rotary kilns were installed.


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