EPW026627 ENGLAND (1929). The Tunnel Portland Cement Works and Tunnel Wharf, West Thurrock, from the south, 1929

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Pennawd [EPW026627] The Tunnel Portland Cement Works and Tunnel Wharf, West Thurrock, from the south, 1929
Cyfeirnod EPW026627
Dyddiad May-1929
Dolen
Enw lle WEST THURROCK
Plwyf
Ardal
Gwlad ENGLAND
Dwyreiniad / Gogleddiad 557432, 176554
Hydred / Lledred 0.26669694083163, 51.465540248971
Cyfeirnod Grid Cenedlaethol TQ574766

Pinnau

Small shunting locomotive

MB
Saturday 9th of March 2013 11:55:19 PM
Kiln 4 started up January 1929.

Dylan Moore
Saturday 9th of March 2013 05:38:38 PM
Lafarge Calcium Aluminate Cement Plant

Dylan Moore
Tuesday 16th of October 2012 05:55:09 PM

Dylan Moore
Tuesday 16th of October 2012 05:54:16 PM

Cyfraniadau Grŵp

Good view of the old wharf. When the big kilns 6 and 7 were installed in the 1930s, a new deep water wharf was added towards the left of the picture, and the old wharf remained in use for coal.

Dylan Moore
Tuesday 16th of October 2012 11:29:10 PM
The West Thurrock Plant of the Tunnel Portland Cement Company Ltd. The plant began in a small way in 1874, but became much more significant when it was acquired by the Danish firm F L Smidth in 1911, when it was rebuilt on up-to-date lines and rapidly expanded. By the time of the photograph, the original two rotary kilns had increased to four, and a further three were installed before WWII. By 1938 it was the largest British plant, and remained so until 1970. It closed in 1976. The Tunnel name was derived from Tunnel Farm, which still stood at this time, on the top of the quarry face behind the plant.

Dylan Moore
Tuesday 16th of October 2012 05:53:51 PM