Shoreham Cement Works

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DaveyGTI

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Shoreham cement works is a chalk quarry and cement plant on the river Adur in W. sussex, visited on a bright but cold sunday morning. There are two sites, orginally linked by conveyer, most of which is now gone, it was built in 1949 and closed in 1991, although the place is still used as storage for lorries and other quarrying machines. only visited the eastern site, will return for the west at some point! Its hard to get across a sense of scale of the place but the rotating kilns (below) are twice the hieght of a person and must be getting on for 1/4 mile long. The other odd feature, visible in the last photo is the formations of cement, there are cement stalactites in some places, its like cave formation process speeded up, understandable i guess when cement and limestone are not so disimilar!

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great pics i will have to go down there to have a look and take pics . is it easy to get in .
 
great it be my next place to go . have you bin in that big old place along the ridge in hastings . its on the left
as you go towards ore not sure wot its name is . :)
 
thats the place . i done some work in there some years ago now . wot a same . :(
 

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