Barton

Location:

Clinker manufacture operational: 1897-1927

Approximate total clinker production: 800,000 tonnes

Raw materials:

Ownership:

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::

The Barton website covering south Humberside industries in detail unfortunately seems to have disappeared.