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Me and Fluffy took a trip to Wenford Dries on our fly round of Cornwall.
As well as Lead, copper, Arsenic, Uranium and tin, China clay has always been a massive industry in Cornwall and remains to this day.
The Wenford Dries was built in the early 20th C, to dry china clay slurry, the china clay slurry was moved from the quarry some miles away by pipe line and placed in massive settling tanks at the rear of the building, this slurry was then poured in to drying tanks above long furnaces, these were fired from one end and large flue chimneys drew the hot gasses through the dryers, the dry china clay was removed from the top and moved down to the end of the building to be stored and then sent out via train.
The building was worked right up until 2002 when it finally closed.
Pictures.............
On top of the dryers
Looking at the flue chimneys
Looking at the massive settling ponds at the rear of the building.
Right that will do, thanks for looking and all comments are most welcome.
There are more pictures on my FlickR site so head over to:-
https://www.flickr.com/photos/newage2/albums/72157713471507071
One last picture that made my smile - don`t normally like spray paint s*** but this was cool.
Cheers Newage
Me and Fluffy took a trip to Wenford Dries on our fly round of Cornwall.
As well as Lead, copper, Arsenic, Uranium and tin, China clay has always been a massive industry in Cornwall and remains to this day.
The Wenford Dries was built in the early 20th C, to dry china clay slurry, the china clay slurry was moved from the quarry some miles away by pipe line and placed in massive settling tanks at the rear of the building, this slurry was then poured in to drying tanks above long furnaces, these were fired from one end and large flue chimneys drew the hot gasses through the dryers, the dry china clay was removed from the top and moved down to the end of the building to be stored and then sent out via train.
The building was worked right up until 2002 when it finally closed.
Pictures.............
![49655898707_28efe0171b_b.jpg 49655898707_28efe0171b_b.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/derelictplaces/data/attach/259/259547-49655898707-28efe0171b-b.jpg)
![49655618306_0063759eb2_b.jpg 49655618306_0063759eb2_b.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/derelictplaces/data/attach/259/259548-49655618306-0063759eb2-b.jpg)
![49655082463_98cccde65a_b.jpg 49655082463_98cccde65a_b.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/derelictplaces/data/attach/259/259549-49655082463-98cccde65a-b.jpg)
On top of the dryers
![49655907432_3e0844750f_b.jpg 49655907432_3e0844750f_b.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/derelictplaces/data/attach/259/259550-49655907432-3e0844750f-b.jpg)
Looking at the flue chimneys
![49655624136_31d90eb653_b.jpg 49655624136_31d90eb653_b.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/derelictplaces/data/attach/259/259551-49655624136-31d90eb653-b.jpg)
Looking at the massive settling ponds at the rear of the building.
![49655086133_b6030ca5d8_b.jpg 49655086133_b6030ca5d8_b.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/derelictplaces/data/attach/259/259552-49655086133-b6030ca5d8-b.jpg)
Right that will do, thanks for looking and all comments are most welcome.
There are more pictures on my FlickR site so head over to:-
https://www.flickr.com/photos/newage2/albums/72157713471507071
One last picture that made my smile - don`t normally like spray paint s*** but this was cool.
![49655616691_dc2c7eaf8c_b.jpg 49655616691_dc2c7eaf8c_b.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/derelictplaces/data/attach/259/259553-49655616691-dc2c7eaf8c-b.jpg)
Cheers Newage