Item c1 application by crossrail ltd for a temporary. The potential heritage trail starting from northfleet football ground grove road, covering industrial. Our involvement with the crossrail project marks the. About lafarge cement uk and other related information. Land at former northfleet cement works, the shore, northfleet. The memorial lists those employees of bevans cement works who lost their lives in the first world war. Northfleet works also benefits from approved and advanced planning applications that demonstrate the suitability of the site for future development and the constructive approach.
Westbury cement works the final chapter has 431 members. The plant had been shut down in 1921 for a complete rebuild, and the first of the three new kilns was lit up on 23031926. Westbury cement works the final chapter public group. The gravesend memorial was damaged in the bombings of the town in 1940 and was then placed in storage. Search the history of over 439 billion web pages on the internet. Minutes of the proceedings of the institution of civil. I have set up westbury cement works the final chapter as a tribute to an iconic local. Shoreham cement works mostly shut down during world war ii 193945, running intermittently until restarting in 1946. Portland cement is a complex mix of many compounds, some of which play a major part in the hydration or chemical characteristics of the cement. The northfleet cement works demolition leaves the way clear for a major. Northfleet riverside heritage trail river thames heritage.
Cement mixed with fine aggregate produces mortar for masonry, or with sand and gravel, produces concrete. The industry requires plentiful water supplies, and chalk as its main ingredient, both of which were to hand. Northfleet is a town in the borough of gravesham in kent, england. When in 1796, james parker set up kilns on northfleet creek to make his roman cement, it was the beginning of a large complex of cement works along this stretch of the river. Contents 1 chemistry 2 history of the origin of cement 2. Outline application with all matters reserved for a mixed development and comprising.
The quarry was south of northfleet linked by a two feet eight and a half inch. Cement is seldom used on its own, but rather to bind sand and gravel together. Thomas bevan 18291907 founded the cement works in the late c19. Doyle jones impressive northfleet art deco war memorial being for the employees of the bevans cement works who lost their lives in the first world war.
A cement is a binder, a substance used for construction that sets, hardens, and adheres to other materials to bind them together. Bevans war memorial in northfleet cement works, gravesham. Shiptononcherwell cement works march 12 at a loose end me and zotez hatched a plan to see the old girl and lo, it came to fruition. Lafarge cement uk cement manufacturers is one of a number of businesses situated in. Since then, uk production has grown, at least until 2008. The guide is supported by a video and a display at rugby museum. For this reason i recommend, my list of the most important books of the cement industry.
Concrete is the most widely used material in existence and is only behind water as. Its a pageturner that takes you through the ages leading to thomas edison designing and building a. Lafarge cement works erith commenced works on the largest demolition sequence in europe at the time in northfleet, kent. North west kent has an illustrious and varied industrial history, if not a somewhat complicated one. Parker produced roman cement at northfleet, his works quickly passing into the hands of the wyatts, and in 1846 to maude, jones and joseph aspdin. Northfleet project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks. Northfleet cement works planning application gr20090238.
In short, it can be said that cement as well as steel are sinequanon for that development of. Raildelivered chalk came to the site from mountfield east sussex and theale berkshire, whilst the former and welbeck colliery nottinghamshire also supplied the works with coal. Reason the development of the site is the subject of an environmental impact assessment and transport assessment and any alteration to the scale or. A h case, e a cullen, b cunningham, p n fawcett, w t halcrow, j mitchell, w h thorpe, f m g du plat taylor, faber source. By 1960, the associated portland cement manufacturers apcm had a multitude of cement making plants lining the south bank of the.
Concrete dates back to at least 6500 bce when the nabatea of what we know now as syria and jordan used a precursor of modernday concrete to build structures that survive to this day. Northfleet academic dictionaries and encyclopedias. Edc160004 land at former northfleet cement works, the. It owns a number of cement works and import terminals in the uk, including one in west thurrock, essex, which is the target of this transaction. Blue circle industries was a british public company manufacturing cement. They became a member of the original associated portland cement manufacturers group. It was founded in 1900 as the associated portland cement manufacturers ltd through the fusion of 24 cement works, mostly located on the thames and medway estuaries, together having around a 70% market share of the british cement market. Check out lafarge cement uk on their social media pages. The historical presence of cement and lime works across the area has led to the widescale excavation of land including between the. Edc160004 land at former northfleet cement works, the shore, northfleet january 2017 n. I havent seen anything in the local history books just the name on a map. Heritage list entry summary for bevans war memorial in northfleet cement.
For a copy of the full scale map, please see the attached pdf 91662. Cement, legal personality and industry by humphrey ko are a few books that i can sugge. Lafarge cement northfleet formerly blue circle cement. Position statement policy cs03 david lock associates 5 20 august 20 10. Demolition of blue circle lafarge cement works northfleet. The romans first began to dig chalk from the area, but the making of cement came later.
When the market crashed in 1992, cement firms closed their older, more inefficient works and upgraded the better ones. Over the years the extraction of chalk and the resultant. The last cement plant in northfleet ceased operation in 2008. More nostalgic memories of northfleet this book follows on from memories of northfleet by the riverside, with personal recollections and photographs of rosherville, the hill and ebbsfleet park in the 1940s1950s. These tunnels predate the bevans cement works and formed part of a brick making factory, the. Anticipated acquisition by lafarge cement uk of the west. Formerly the blue circle cement works but alas no more. The buildings at the site and a concise history of the different names and faces of the cement works various other. On the parish boundary between swanscombe and northfleet was the britannia cement works, or macevoy and holts works, built in the 1870s and located at the bottom of galley hill at botany bay.
The company would be happy to assist teachers who want to build any of this information into. The cement works at northfleet opened in 1970 by blue circle industries and had the capacity to produce over a million tonnes of cement each year. Buy cement railways of kent locomotion papers 3rd revised edition by stoyel, b. Northfleet, until recently the location of the uks largest cement works, is a site with a long history of rail use and is key to the sustainable onward distribution of essential construction materials for the built environment. Of those cement producing complexes which established themselves along the bank of the thames between dartford and greenhithe, the kent works was the most recent. Of those cementproducing complexes which established themselves along the bank of the thames between dartford and greenhithe, the kent works was the most recent. There is the cement data book by walter h duda, public and private control in mass product industry by patrizio bianchi, the making of the modern chinese state.
Robert hiscock, in his a history of gravesend phillimore, 1976 describes them thus. Outline application for a mixed development and comprising up to 510 homes, up to 46,000 sq m employment floorspace b1b2b8, mixed use neighbourhood centre comprising up to 850 sq m of retailcafetakeaway a1a2a3a5 and d1 community centre, up to 500 sq m a3a4 food and drink. It was taken other by lafarge in 2002, becoming lafarge cement uk. The northfleet works was closed down in 2008 and the site was used to keep the detritus from crossrail development. Doylejones also designed the bronze partick and whiteinch war memorial, victoria park, glasgow 1922. The coming of the cement industry led to masses of workers terraced housing which can still be seen in factory road and the necessary retail shops that totally.
When the third kiln was lit in the following august, it became britains largest plant. Demolition of the wharf at blue circle cement works at northfleet an incongruous landscape of modern industrial architecture and a foreground of a patchy, poorlymade service road at northfleet. The understanding cement glossary contains over 100 definitions of words used in cement science. Northfleet is the home of portland cement and bulk powders have been manufactured, imported, exported and packaged at northfleet works site for the last 150 years. Search results for northfleet stock photos and images 646 page 1 of 7. The 7,000 year history of concrete starts with a bombshell explanation that proves the great pyramid at giza was constructed of poured concreteand then it gets really interesting. Facility at northfleet works, the shore, northfleet, gravesend gr101127 c1.
Kent scanned at high resolution from a book printed around 1845. Land at former northfleet cement works ebbsfleet development. Minutes of the proceedings of the institution of civil engineers, volume 226, issue 1928, 1 jan 1928 3341. Portland cement really came to the publics notice in the late 1840s as public rivalry built up between frosts and aspdins. Northfleet lafarge cement works chimney demolition youtube. The demolition of two massive 550 foot chimneys at on of the largest cement production facilities in europe. There had been repeated failures of roman cement, and portland cement came to be seen as superior. Use classes as referenced in the town and country planning use classes order 1987 as amended. Compound composition of clinker cement four major compounds formed from the oxides under high temperature in the kiln name oxide notation shorthand tricalcium silicate 3 cao. This highly detailed os map covers the area from northfleet to west gravesend, coverage stretching form st botolphs church in northfleet eastward to st james church and bath street in gravesend, and from the river southward to gravesend.
Cement data book, 19851988 third edition by walter h duda. As soon as parkers patent ran out in 1810 the roman cement industry spread along the thames and elsewhere in the. David simms, lafarge cements land and planning director said. By december 1970, northfleet works was fully operational, and on 14th of that month, the cement sidings to the south of the station were brought into use. It was recorded as norfluet in the domesday book, and northflet in 1201. World heritage encyclopedia, the aggregation of the largest online encyclopedias available, and the most definitive. Beautiful weather and a lovely pub lunch in the excellent rock of gibraltar before the explore meant we were in high spirits and a wholly successful day was had, peppered with tbms live updates from his explore. In 1911, the british portland cement manufacturers ltd. Paryrmaking fb, milling ab, coal nining el7, cement kilns d15 and. Th s book is be ng published to mark the aia s 1999 conference at the. Cement is basic material for all types of construction works and it is widely used in construction from smallest building to largest structures like dams, irrigation works, bridge, industrial complex etc. Castle cement ltd castle is the uk arm of the global cement producer heidelberg cement group. Click here or on the image to sign up for cembytes.
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