Location:
- Grid reference: TA01092345
- x=501090
- y=423450
- 53°41'52"N; 0°28'8"W
- Civil Parish: Barton upon Humber, Lindsey
Clinker manufacture operational: 1897-1927
Approximate total clinker production: 800,000 tonnes
Raw materials:
- Middle Chalk (Welton Chalk Formation: 90-94 Ma, with Ferriby Chalk Formation at base) from New Cliff Quarry, 500660,422350 by rail
- Alluvial Clay from pit at 501100,423150
Ownership:
- 1897-1911 Skelsey’s Adamant Cement Co. Ltd
- 1911-1927 BPCM G & T Earles division (Blue Circle)
Also called Skelsey’s Works (but not to be confused with Adamant) and Port Adamant. The site being previously the source of its raw materials, the plant was built to replace the Adamant plant. There were eleven chamber kilns originally, with output 330 t/week. These were supplemented by four shaft kilns using surplus dried slurry around 1901, capacity 320 t/week, making up Davis' 1907 capacity of 650 t/week. The latter seem to have been decommissioned as soon as the rotary kiln was running in 1912, and the chamber kilns shut down in August 1913: although they were maintained as standby capacity they seem not to have been used again. The final form of the plant was described in a 1924 schedule. There was essentially no landward communication, and all transportation was by water. The plant, which could not be readily up-rated, closed with the development by Earles of the Humber and Hope plants. The site was left largely intact, and the skeleton of its structure is still visible on what is now part of a nature reserve. The quarry is overgrown.
Power Supply
The plant was originally directly driven by a 750 HP steam engine. The rotary kiln (1911) was electrically driven, using small generators driven originally by the main engine, but from 1913 a 200 HP steam engine transferred from Wilmington was used to drive these.
Rawmills
The plant initally had an edge-runner and two 18'9" washmills. In 1911, two Bagshaw wet tube miils were installed; one ground chalk alone and the second inter-ground clay with the chalk slurry.
One rotary kiln was installed:
Kiln A1
Supplier: Edgar Allen
Operated: 12/1911-12?/1927
Process: Wet
Location: hot end 501114,423437: cold end 501069,423438: unenclosed.
Dimensions: 150’0”× 8’0”B / 7’0”CD (metric 45.72 × 2.438 / 2.134)
Rotation (viewed from firing end): anticlockwise
Slope: 1/24 (2.388°)
Speed: ?
Drive: ?
Kiln profile: 0×2134: 2134×2134: 3658×2438: 8230×2438: 11278×2134: 45720×2134: tyres at 1448, 12344, 26822, 39472: turning gear at 26060.
Cooler: rotary 55’0”× 4’0” (metric 16.76 × 1.219) beneath kiln
Cooler profile: 0×1219: 16764×1219: tyres at 1829, 13716: turning gear at 13868.
Fuel: coal
Coal mill: indirect: Edgar Allen rotary drier followed by Edgar Allen combination mill, 45 kW
Exhaust: direct to stack.
Typical Output: 97 t/d
Typical Heat Consumption: 8.4 MJ/kg
Sources::
- Primary Sources:
- Earles archive
- Edgar Allen archive
- Greenhithe Archive
- BPCM 1924 schedule
- The Pelican, January 1951, p 2
- Ordnance Survey 1:2500 mapping
- BGS mapping and monographs
- Confirmatory Sources:
The Barton website covering south Humberside industries in detail unfortunately seems to have disappeared.