Location:
- Grid reference: SK03970080
- x=403970
- y=300800
- 52°36'18"N; 1°56'29"W
- Civil Parish: Rushall, Staffordshire
Clinker manufacture operational: 1909-1935
Approximate total clinker production: 180,000 tonnes
Raw materials: Silurian Wenlock Limestone (Lower Quarried Limestone Member: 423-426 Ma), with inter-bedded shale and concretions from drift mine at 403700,300750: perhaps also lime plant tailings.
Ownership: East Anglian Cement Co. Ltd
Otherwise known as Rushall or Daw End Works. It differed from the other Black Country plants in that it did not use an argillaceous “cement stone”: it was from the outset a proper Portland cement plant using a ground highish-grade limestone. The mines of the long-established Winterley lime plant were adjacent, and the canal on which it stood was established for shipping of lime. The canal was used exclusively for transportation. There were two shaft (Schneider?) kilns (1st 1909, 2nd 1910), operated on the dry process: the capacity was probably 220 t/week. This was the last of the Black Country plants to operate. The site is now covered by an industrial estate: there are no visible remains.
No rotary kilns were installed.
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