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Wenford Dries - March 2020
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<blockquote data-quote="Newage" data-source="post: 362374" data-attributes="member: 2844"><p>Hi All</p><p></p><p>Me and Fluffy took a trip to Wenford Dries on our fly round of Cornwall.</p><p>As well as Lead, copper, Arsenic, Uranium and tin, China clay has always been a massive industry in Cornwall and remains to this day.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>The building was worked right up until 2002 when it finally closed.</p><p></p><p>Pictures.............</p><p></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]259547[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]259548[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]259549[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>On top of the dryers</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]259550[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Looking at the flue chimneys </p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]259551[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Looking at the massive settling ponds at the rear of the building.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]259552[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Right that will do, thanks for looking and all comments are most welcome.</p><p>There are more pictures on my FlickR site so head over to:-</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/newage2/albums/72157713471507071">https://www.flickr.com/photos/newage2/albums/72157713471507071</a></p><p></p><p>One last picture that made my smile - don`t normally like spray paint s*** but this was cool.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]259553[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Cheers Newage</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Newage, post: 362374, member: 2844"] Hi All 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............. [ATTACH=full]259547[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]259548[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]259549[/ATTACH] On top of the dryers [ATTACH=full]259550[/ATTACH] Looking at the flue chimneys [ATTACH=full]259551[/ATTACH] Looking at the massive settling ponds at the rear of the building. [ATTACH=full]259552[/ATTACH] 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:- [URL="https://www.flickr.com/photos/newage2/albums/72157713471507071"]https://www.flickr.com/photos/newage2/albums/72157713471507071[/URL] One last picture that made my smile - don`t normally like spray paint s*** but this was cool. [ATTACH=full]259553[/ATTACH] Cheers Newage [/QUOTE]
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