Location:
- Grid reference: TQ96266460
- x=596260
- y=164600
- 51°20'48"N; 0°49'6"E
- Civil Parish: Teynham, Kent
Clinker manufacture operational: 1864-3/1906
Approximate total clinker production: 78,000 tonnes
Raw materials:
- Upper Chalk (Seaford Chalk Formation: 85-88 Ma) from pit at 594750,163150, originally connected by tramway, but from the 1890s pumped from the quarry as a slurry.
- Swale Alluvial Clay
Ownership: A and W T Richardson and Co.
Sometimes called Conyer or Richardson’s Works. It was one of several in the area in which cement manufacture was an offshoot of a brick-making and agricultural enterprise. Originally an oilseed mill, it was in 1864 purchased by Charles Richardson who sponsored George Burge to convert it for Roman and Portland cements. In its life it grew from two to eight bottle kilns of which perhaps six (say 133 t/week) eventually made Portland cement: Davis gave it a zero capacity in 1907. The plant had no rail link, using water transport almost exclusively, from its own dock on Conyer Creek. The plant was up for sale in 1912, when it comprised "mill, warehouse and stores, 8 kilns, 6 slurry backs, engine & boiler houses, chimney shaft, smith's shop, dynamo house, offices and sheds, etc., Lancashire boiler, and 100 I.H.P. Galloways compound condensing steam engine, duplex steam pump, 16 H.P. motor and dynamo, steam crane, roadway, tramway, sidings, etc." It also possessed Fowley Island in the Swale as a clay source. Much of the site was redeveloped shortly after closure although the cement store remained until 2012. It is now covered by housing. The quarry is returned to agriculture.
Power supply
As above.
Rawmills
Washmills were used to make thin slurry.
No rotary kilns were installed.
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