Album Building materials from tarboat

Grey

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 05:32:28 +0000

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Grey is the definitive colour for cement works. Wagons and silos at the Breedon works in Hope.

No.3

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:53:38 +0000

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Harry Needle Railway Company class 20 No.3 (formerly 20906) gently clagging in silo area at the Breedon Cement works at Hope.

Ketton silos

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:08:24 +0000

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Cement silos at the Ketton cement works which was established by the Ketton Portland Cement Company in 1928. It is currently owned by Heidelberg.

Kronospan

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 05:27:09 +0000

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Kronospan has been operating at Chirk since the 1970’s. The works originally made particleboard and melamine and now also produces MDF, T&G flooring for the building trade, laminate flooring and worktops. It is the longest established manufacturer of wood-based panels, and the only laminate flooring producer in the UK.

New timber is sourced in the UK and delivered by train and there is also use of reclaimed wood material

Scottish cement

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 08:57:52 +0000

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The Dunbar or Oxwellmains cement works was originally built by Blue Circle in 1963 with three kilns. It was rebuilt with a preheater tower and a single kiln which went into production in 1986. It became part of Lafarge Cement UK in 2001 and passed to Tarmac in 2013.

More details here: www.cementkilns.co.uk/cement_kiln_dunbar.html

Electricity

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 06:51:52 +0000

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Electrical input at Hope cement works. One of the rotary kilns in the background.

Adelaide Cement

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 10:07:24 +0000

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This works, operated by Adbri Cement, formerly known as Adelaide Brighton Cement was founded in 1882. After previous failed attempts going back to 1927, Adelaide Cement Company at Birkenhead and the South Australian Portland Cement Company, with origins at Brighton, merged in 1970 as Adelaide Brighton Cement Ltd. Adbri operates manufacturing and distribution facilities in South Australia, the Northern Territory, and New South Wales. The Birkenhead plant manufactures approximately 1.3 million tonnes per annum of clinker and 1.6 million tonnes per annum of bulk and bagged cement for the South Australian and Victorian markets and is one of South Australia’s biggest manufacturers.

Cement works

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 06:40:12 +0000

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The Ketton cement works was established by the Ketton Portland Cement Company in 1928. It is currently owned by Heidelberg and comprises two kilns (nos 7 & 8) which were completed in 1975 and the mid-1980's. Kiln 7 was mothballed in 2008.

Permanite asphalt

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 14:31:24 +0000

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Originally, part of the larger Cawdor Quarry complex, Permanite Asphalt was incorporated in 1989 and manufactured various asphalt products, mainly flooring blocks used to waterproof floors, as well as roofing sheets. The process involved the mixing of aggregate, bitumen, sand and limestone. The plant took powdered limestone from several of the local quarries and mixed it with hot bitumen emulsion that was brought down from the refineries of Ellesmere port, this being a bi-product of the fuel oil-refining process. The mixed tar and limestone solution was poured into metal moulds on the floor of the big shed and allowed to solidify, then the back-breaking process of manually separating and stacking the cooled blocks could begin. The site was regulated by the local Derbyshire Dales District Council on the condition that the heating of tar or bitumen is regulated under section 6.3 of the Environmental Permitting Regulations.

In 2009, Permanite Asphalt relocated to Grangemill, becoming known as Ruberoid, which is part of the IKO Group. The company was dissolved in September 2016.

In 2018, developers Groveholt Ltd submitted plans for 586 houses in total for the ‘Matlock Spa’ development - with 468 of the homes to be built on the brownfield sites of Cawdor quarry and the former Permanite works. Currently these plans have yet to get off the ground, and the site remains derelict.

Thanks to Wally_urbex on 28DL for the information.

Dunbar cement

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 05:19:38 +0000

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Cemex Salford

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 05:37:40 +0000

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The Cemex Manchester Concrete Plant is located in Salford. It supplies both Screed and Readymix Concrete to builders and businesses in the Manchester and wider Greater Manchester region. There is also an asphalt plant on the site. Stone can be delivered by train into the building across the rails.

Numold

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 14 May 2024 06:19:38 +0000

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Corrugated iron extension to the factory of Numold (UK) Ltd at Gloucester. The business designs and make moulds for concrete castings. I suspect that this extension was used as a drawing/design office as it has a wall of windows to allow as much light in as possible. The building seemed to be out of use.

Barrington

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 09:18:30 +0000

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GECT 6w diesel-electric locomotive at the Cemex UK operated Barrington Cement Works in 2007. This works closed soon after and has been demolished.

Hope cement panorama

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 20:49:54 +0000

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Hope cement works from the primary crusher building at the edge of the limestone quarry. This was during a works open day on a very wet and murky occasion.

Class 20 at Hope

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 06:58:31 +0000

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Harry Needle Railway Company class 20 No.3 (formerly 20906) stands on the lines leading to the maintenance and coal stocking areas at the Breedon Cement works at Hope.

Ketton

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 07:06:15 +0000

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Loading point

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 06:41:56 +0000

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Road vehicle loading silos at Hope cement works.

Cement works

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 12:17:29 +0000

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Preheater tower and silo at the Hanson owned Ribblesdale Cement Works at Clitheroe. Dust collection to the fore and the chimney on top was at a funny angle after storm damage. The company was waiting for a shutdown when it would be reattached properly. The conical building on the left is a clinker store.

Transformed

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 07:37:28 +0000

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Disused substation at Clitheroe cement works.

Cementos Cosmos

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 06:38:51 +0000

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The Brazilian company Votorantim Cimentos now owns the Cosmos Cement Mill at Bobadilla Station, Málaga. The works was begun in January 1999 and was an attempt to create self-sufficency in cement in the region.