Saffron Walden

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Clinker manufacture operational: 1879-1918, 1921-1924

Approximate total clinker production: 115,000 tonnes

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Ownership:

This had five wet process bottle kilns. At some time, the kilns were converted to chamber format. Davis put the 1907 output at 120 t/week. It had no entry in 1914 directories, but ICMA data suggests it continued in a small way through WWI and despatched its last cement in 1918. The plant may have continued for a while after the war making lime, under the ownership of E. Rooke & Sons. It was re-started making cement for concrete products in 1920 but closed in 1924. It was up for sale in 1925, with no takers. Another re-start was announced in 1932, but seems not to have happened, and the site was land-filled from 1933. The plant had no rail link: Saffron Walden station and freight depot was about a mile away. The site is now an industrial park.

Power Supply

Raw- and finish-mills were direct-driven by a single steam engine.

Rawmills

There was a washmill, possibly followed by screeners.

No rotary kilns were installed.


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