Teynham

Location:

Clinker manufacture operational: 1870-3/1906

Approximate total clinker production: 78,000 tonnes

Raw materials:

Ownership: A. and W. T. Richardson and Co.

Sometimes called Conyer or Richardson’s Works. Primarily a Roman Cement plant, in its life it grew from one to eight bottle kilns of which perhaps four (say 100 t/week) made Portland cement: Davis gave it a zero capacity in 1907 . The plant had no rail link, using water transport almost exclusively. 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. The site was redeveloped shortly after closure, and 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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