Padeswood cement plant, 1977
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The photograph on this page of Padeswood cement plant, 1977 by Dylan Moore as part of the Geograph project.
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Padeswood cement plant, 1977
Image: © Dylan Moore Taken: Unknown
Taken in 1977 from just west of Oak Tree farm. The two stacks shown here are now gone. The left hand one belongs to wet process kilns 1 & 2, and the right hand one belongs to dry process kiln 3. The plant was Britain's first post-war green field cement plant, starting up in 1949. It is unusual in that it was built some distance from both its limestone and its shale supplies. Kiln 3, started in 1966, was the first of only three "long dry" kilns installed in the British Isles. These rather old-fashioned kilns were replaced in 2005 by the exceptionally efficient modern kiln 4, adjacent to the south (right edge in this picture). For more details, see http://www.cementkilns.co.uk/cement_kiln_padeswood.html.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.15179
Longitude
-3.061855