Wallsend

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Clinker manufacture operational: 1869-?1895

Approximate total clinker production: 103,000 tonnes

Raw materials:

Ownership: Wallsend Cement Co.

Incorporated 1868. The plant was set up on the site of a disused ironworks on the Tyne foreshore. It had five wet process bottle kilns (130 t/week) and was operational in 1890, but was disused in 1898, so it probably closed around 1895, perhaps because of loss of its clay supply. The plant’s transport was entirely by water. After brief redevelopment the site remained vacant for many years, but now has some warehousing.

Power supply

The plant was entirely direct-driven by steam engine.

Rawmills

The plant had at least one washmill, followed by flat stones.

No rotary kilns were installed.


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