Location:
- Grid reference: NZ214635
- x=421400
- y=563500
- 54°57'56"N; 1°'39"57W
- Civil Parish: Benwell, Northumberland
Clinker manufacture operational: ?1870-?1895
Approximate total clinker production: 128,000 tonnes
Raw materials:
- Thames chalk ballast
- probably Tyne Alluvium from Redheugh (NZ)423800,562000
Ownership: Frederick Shaw and Co.
Named after the adjacent Paradise House, this plant was built on the site of a pre-existing pigment plant. It is shown as disused on the 1898 map, but was operating in 1890. It seems to have started with four small wet process bottle kilns (40 t/week). A further five slightly larger kilns (70 t/week) were added later. It appears to have acquired five chamber kilns (150 t/week) followed by a further three (90 t/week). The plant is very obscure and I have found no reasons for its formation, location or demise. There was rail adjacent to the plant but it was not connected to it. The plant was connected to a wharf on the Tyne by a short tramway. The site was redeveloped and is now mainly under the A695 Tyne north bank road.
Power supply
No information
Rawmills
No information
No rotary kilns were installed.
Sources:
- Primary Sources:
- Ward's directory 1890, 1898
- newspapers
- Ordnance Survey 1:2500 mapping
- Confirmatory Sources:
- Mentioned (but not explicitly) by Francis, p 227