Tonbridge Construction and Damp-Proofing
Based: in Tonbridge, TN9 2YRLatest review
Andy L., TN12
Building work | Damp Proofing in Tonbridge
Very personable, honest and professional
Swanscombe
Swanscombe is a small town in the Borough of Dartford in Kent, England. It lies east of Dartford and also north-west of Gravesend, in the civil parish of Swanscombe and Greenhithe. At the 2001 UK census, the Swanscombe electoral ward had a population of 6,418. Swanscombe was necessary in the early history of cement. The very first concrete production works near Swanscombe were opened at Northfleet by James Parker, around 1792, making "Roman cement" from cement stone brought from the Isle of Sheppey. James Frost opened up a works at Swanscombe in 1825, utilizing chalk from Galley Hill, having patented a new cement called British Cement. The Swanscombe plant was subsequently acquired by John Bazley White & Co, which came to be the biggest component of Blue Circle Industries when it created in 1900. It finally closed down in 1990. In between 1840 and 1930 it was the largest cement plant in Britain. By 1882 several concrete producers were running throughout the north Kent region, but the resulting dust air pollution drove the people of Swanscombe to take lawsuit versus the local concrete jobs. Regardless of numerous technological technologies, the problem continued into the 1950s, with telegraph lines over an inch thick in white dust. Modern cement kilns in Kent making use of chimneys 170 m (550 feet) in elevation are currently said to be the cleanest worldwide. Nonetheless, the adjoining Medway communities are reported to be one of the most contaminated inhabited area in the UK, and also the concrete market contributes to acid rain in Scandinavia.
