| Phoenix Brand. |
Location:
- Grid reference: TQ74756935
- x=574750
- y=169350
- 51°23'47"N; 0°30'43"E
- Civil Parish: Frindsbury Extra, Kent
Clinker manufacture operational: 1877-1907
Approximate total clinker production: 330,000 tonnes
Raw materials:
- Upper Chalk (Seaford Chalk Formation: 85-88 Ma) from Rochester Chalk Co. quarry at 575100,169400
- Medway Alluvial Clay
Ownership:
- 1868-1900 Phoenix Portland Cement Co. Ltd
- 1900-1907 APCM (Blue Circle)
See also a general history of the Frindsbury cement plants. The site was occupied by the Frindsbury Lime Works, with ten lime kilns, at the time Johnson set up the nearby Crown plant. Johnson’s collaborator George Burge sold the latter plant to William Tingey in 1868 and set up on the now-vacant lime works site. There were initially six bottle kilns. Two chamber kilns were installed in 1883, eight more in 1887, and one more in 1890, by which time the bottle kilns were no longer used, giving a final capacity of 338 t/week. The site was absorbed into the Crown and Quarry site and remained derelict until sold for redevelopment after WWII. It is now under light industry.
Power supply
No information
Rawmills
No information. The plant obviously used washmills, and for the chamber kilns, flat stones were added, but there is no definite evidence at present.
No rotary kilns were installed.
Sources:
- Primary Sources:
- Greenhithe Archive
- Rochester Bridge archive
- Ordnance Survey 1:2500 mapping
- BGS mapping and monographs
- Confirmatory Sources: